Well it's official... you have ruined me sir.

Even my little SET mono block at work that I built, I don't think it sounds quite as good, granted I listen near field and this little amp does sound good... the Zen was staggering in comparison. I have parts to build a pair of the mono's so I will do that and then do some side by side listening, at supposedly 1.25 watts it's right up the Zen's alley. I picked up where I had left off last night, finished my last solder joint, pulled up the voltage checks, put the cheapest (cost) tubes that I had into the amp, a 6n1 and a pair of 6p15p's, flipped the switch and sure enough, the tubes lit up, no smoke or popping sounds, woohoo! Voltages checked out very close to yours albeit slightly lower than the posted values but within the tolerance.  So connected a source and the totally crappy speakers I have on my bench in the basement and viola we have music. I must have gotten a bit of something on that large black resistor because I got a wisp of smoke off of it that caused me a brief tense moment but otherwise nothing bad happened. Shut it down, took it upstairs, displaced my long standing main amp and connected it to my CD Player and speakers. I started off with some Diana Krall, the difference between this amp and my old PP was simply jaw dropping. I put on Andrea Bocceli... wow, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux... I'm just in awe. I tossed my Jack Johnson in, I have barely a couple hours on the amp... if it gets any better as it breaks in I don't think I'll be able to stand myself but since I went to the trouble of putting it together I'll give it a try I was half tempted to take the day off to stay home and listen to it lol. Pictures will follow just as soon as I can get them off my wife's camera and I get the final finishing touch on the amp. So far though in a word, amazing. WAF on this amp is very high so I should have no problem getting her to go for the ZSP1 next muwahahahaha!

Paul

PS. you were right about the Green Weenies lol. I will track down some alternative caps later for now I'm just going to enjoy it as it breaks in.