What's the greatest bargain in SET these days?

Rebbi,
It is not surprising Decware would use DHTs as their reference target. Do they equal or surpass DHTs? That's up to the listener to determine.

Rebbi, to me that is ad copy hype. Mark me down as from Missouri, the show me state. I'd have to hear it to believe it! Not likely to happen. I' m all in on Charles' remarks. The DHT 300B is the "Cat's Meow." The EL34 can have a excellent midrange, but not to the extent of a DHT 300B. It's been written here and other places over and over.

I have owned both amp types amongst other types. I truly regret selling my Golden Tube 300B. When that company went out of business I was worried about ongoing support. Now, knowing what I know, with the advent of Shuguang Black Treasure 300B, I should have implemented Arthur Salvatore's (someone to listen too) mods to the Golden Tube 300B for true world class sound at that time. Now, he and his associates believe Charles' and Brownsfan Coincident 300B amp to be the finest sounding overall.

"I truly regret selling my Golden Tube 300B."

Funny you mention THAT amp Mikirob. After all the discussion on this thread I started looking around for a 300B DHT amp just to see how it might fare with the Decapos. There was a Golden tube 300b amp for sale recently on Agon. When I decided to buy it, it was gone, one day, snooze and lose! I had the same thing in mind, upgrading some of the parts to see what could be gotten. For 1K no risk and probably a lot of fun as well.

A lot of DIY'er's have performed the Hazen Grid mod on their non Decware amps and this usually skeptical crowd seems to appreciate it as a viable mod as many seem to claim that it does in fact make an improvement. If you do some Google searches on the subject, you'll see lots of discussions.

Now that said, even if it does improve the EL34 triode sound, I would still go after a well built 300B if it was in my budget.

Rebbi, not to late to just go back to some good SS amplification before taking a deeper dive into tube amp land. :^)

I bet TAD hibachis would sound really good with those Decapos for well under $1000 and no tubes worth mentioning. They even each have a volume control so all that you would need is your current gear and something like that inexpensive Decware switch box, or may be a decent passive pre-amp at worst.

Just saying....