This is my first post in this forum, what a happy day!
In the last two years I have build:
SOZ at 5W, ordinary components.
SOZ at 8W , Audio Note tantalum resistors, siliver, gold and all that.
DOZ at 10W, ordinary components.
Andrea Ciuffoli Powerfollower99 at 10w, ordinary components.
Andrea Ciuffoli Powerfollower99 at 1-2w (headphoneamp.), Audio Note tantalum, Blackgate electrolytics an so on.
Balanced Zen Linestage, high quality components.
When I heard the sound of my first SOZ, I realised that this vas something I rearley liked a lot. It was this easy comming and focused soundstage. I desided to bild the absolute version of SOZ in 8w, It did sound better than the first, but tey are in the same family, no doubt.
Then I came over Elliots homepage and his project on the Death of Zen. I decided to build one of pure curiosity. The result was indeed a very good amp, but obvios, it belongs to a quite different family of amps. In my ears it dos not have this easy and direct sound as the Zen´s and it suffers from a littel lack of deep bass.
But I am shure that there will be different opinnions on this since we are dealing with subjetive values. But calling this construction DOZ is way out of line.
Andra Ciuffolis Powerfollower has a very similar sound to SOZ, and I am very pleased with it as a headphone amplifire.
Until this point, my favorit is the SOZ combined with the Balanced Zen Linestage.