I also want to add that I thought the Oppo stuff still sucked. Didn't feel it was much better than what I heard before.

I would agree in general tube amplifier produces much more heat than a solid state amplifier.  Off topic question for tube amp owner, is it ok to use the tube amplifier for more than 3 hours session?  The reason is that upon unplugging my headphone jack after 3 hours session, the jack is very warm to touch.

What?  Not good.  First time I've heard that.

Yeah, it's funny. You'd expect the Lampi to be smoother or have an easier treble quality than the evil DSD monster. Wasn't the case. It actually had a noticeable amount of digital glare which did bother me. It wasn't a bad DAC in the scope of things, but the digititus was there. I agreed with the others, it obviously had issues on the digital side when listening. Then I looked at the open PC board and the issues became obvious to me 

Next to each other, the DirectStream was more blunted but also more hazy and less clear throughout the spectrum. The DirectStream (and I noticed this on both systems) does this thing where it takes your favorite recordings that you've been listening to for years and turns them into something completely alien. I kept saying to the others "It's different". Not in so much of a bad way, just a "different" way. So yeah, that thing is "different".

Yeah, it's funny. You'd expect the Lampi to be smoother or have an easier treble quality than the evil DSD monster...

DirectStream was more blunted but also more hazy and less clear throughout the spectrum. The DirectStream ... and turns them into something completely alien.

Yup. It's hard to explain, there's almost two categories of digititus. One that's very obvious, can be tiring, but not necessarily bothersome. This is common with all digital in varying degrees.

The other can be described as very strange and disturbing. Commonly heard on SABRE DACs.

Neither are mutually exclusive. When a DAC possesses both of the above qualities, I end up Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before.

I still remain unconvinced about battery powering desktop and other stationary equipment. There were measurements that clearly stated the inferiority of these supplies when compared to good shunt regulators.

Also I agree about the V200. It wasn't bad, but way waaay to coloured sound. Maybe it compensates for the thin V800 signature.

That's why I thought the Violectric stuff wasn't as warm as everyone says- I had the V800 in the set-up?  I didn't like the V800 stack with unmodded HD800 when I heard it. I've been perplexed ever since then wondering what I heard.