MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3?

Several months ago, based in part on Terry Londons' recommendation, I purchased the MHDT Orchid dac with the WE tube upgrade. To give a system context, speakers are Audio Note AN/J LX, preamp is the STP SE/Stage 2, amp is a First Watt SIT 3. I use an Oppo BDP105 as a kind of server, with an external hard drive connected to it. I have purchased interconnects, special jumper cables, and a usb cable from Grannyring (Bill Dion). I have found his products to be exceptional value, and my experience in dealing Bill and communicating with him has been absolutely the best experience I have had in my over forty years of being into this hobby. So when I had the chance to have him modify my Orchid, I jumped at it. He replaced key resistors with Vishay Zfoils and Audio Note Tantalum non magnetics, and certain caps were replaced with Vcap Odams, and Vcap CuTFs. I just received the dac  from Bill yesterday. I believe it already had over 50 hours of burn in time, and I have been running it since receiving it as I am aware that these caps and resistors take some time to fully break in. But in listening today, I am a very happy camper. The sound stage has expanded, the noise floor reduced (eerily so), bass is deeper and better defined......it feels like one is that much closer to the musicians, the singers, the music, the emotions evoked. So much of what makes for better sound appears to be a kind of getting rid of what gets in the way. I can only assume that is at least in part what these upgraded components have done. There are two descriptors that kept coming to mind in trying to describe what I have been hearing with these upgrades: 'refined' and 'natural'. I have not heard the Lampizator Amber 3 so I cannot comment on a comparison.

Excellent stewg!

I just got shipping notification from Chris at VHaudio for the ODAM's and CuTF's that I will put in my preamp. I have had a Lampizator Atlantic Plus for the last couple of years and probably won't be upgrading to another dac anytime soon so if these Vcap caps work well in the preamp I might be interested in seeing how they do in the Lampi.

Audioman58....what brand/voltage fuse did you use on your Orchid upgrad?

See @teajay  post dated 1/17/2020

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/another-new-dac-audio-mirror?page=4

My Amber 3 will be in the system tomorrow night. Looking forward to comparing it the upgraded MHDT Orchid. It will need some play time to sound its best and I will post updates along the way!