Bean, didn't mean to shit on your parade, if you love your sound, stick with it! My bad.
As for whether it's the dither, a/d, analog stage, whatever. Something is happening in the process of converting the v2 signal into 16 bit digital that I do not like, and is not true to the v2 sound, imo. I liked the sound of v2>hhb more than straight v3, and to me, that has to say something about the process of converting to digital, to my ears. Yeah, when we have reliable 24 bit, dither won't be an issue. For now, though, it is.