DHL is like FedEx and UPS, i.e., entirely different than the underfunded, poorly managed USPS. International express and priority mail are experiencing the same fate as first class. The Canadian GZ32 seller told me last week that an Express shipment to Kentucky was still sitting in NY ISC after three weeks.
@shadowlight I have one of those (different Hong Kong seller). I can't tell if the occasional short crackling I hear through the speakers with it and the 596, but apparently not other rectifiers, is caused by the adapter or the tube. My first guess is the adapter, given their poor reputation. The tube was an NOS with about 300 hours now that came from dminches, I recall vaguely (or someone else on the TRP thread).