Orchid vs TUBADOUR III - Help me choose

Links to the products https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/mhdtlab/ and https://www.audiomirror.com/product-page/tubadour-iii-non-oversampling-tube-dac.

The Orchid is 1100$ and the TUBADOUR III (T3) 1500$.
The are both R-2R tube DAC with tube buffered output. The inside of the Orchid looks very organised and clean. the T3 is a little messy. Which one should I choose?

I am in Denmark so there is no way to try before buy.

martin-andersen05-25-2019 11:35am

vassils Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 41 posts 07-04-2019 at 10:18pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete All my DACs/CDPs have had volume control so I do not use a pre-amp. You don't know what you are missing then. Try the Don Sach SP-14 preamp or the Audio Mirror's preamp. You would be pleasantly surprised how much better your DAC sounds. I am as minimalist as it gets, but a good line stage is a must in my system.