The ML 36 has one big weak spot: digital jitter. However, if you put a Monarchy Audio DIP with a good digital cable in front of the 36, you will get 360S like performance. I've had several modern DACs of up to $3000 in my system, and it hasn't been beaten so far.
You will get an improvement if you if you go for the Bricasti or the Ref variant of the BelCanto 3.5mkii, but then we are talking > $6000...
You will get an improvement if you if you go for the Bricasti or the Ref variant of the BelCanto 3.5mkii, but then we are talking > $6000...