Had a chassis and parts - got bored so I wanted to try a Tube recetified Zen-And have a preference for 5AR4 tubes- with a low part count it makes for a quick build- Dead quiet- Sounds great! Not sure how the Decware is running the 2 milliamp meters full time - but don't like the idea of being on all the time and in the circuit - I have a simple volt meter wired with a center off and can check either output tube - getting almost 10vdc off of each cathode resistor-resistor is 300ohms so 10v puts me at 33ma so Iam biased at 93%. Just what I needed yet another amp!!!

Thanks Skunkie for everything! Appreciate your viewpoints around disto rtion!! Really enjoying running the Analyzer suite on various amps - one area I find it really helps is getting both channels to behave the same way especially using NOS tubes with varying performance. Looking forward to your 2A3 amp - think it will support 45 tubes?

I purchased my R8 in Jan. From China-hifi-Audio.com. Today I removed the bottom cover plate to prepair to do the upgrades and mods. Having red plated the V2 power tube several weeks ago I first looked for fried resistors and any other faults to no avail. I did however observe that the power caps were 500 volts not like the 450V that the R8 Stephi was working on had. Also all the resistors appeared to be of better quality with a smoother surface and no visable flaking. So it appears that Someone at Willsenton is listening in on us R8 fans.