MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3?


I’m considering one of these. Please share your thoughts, especially if you’ve heard them. I will be streaming 70% and CD’s 30%

Jazz, R&B and classical in that order are my listening habits.

My room is 20x30 and very nice acoustics.

Current system:
Dali Epicon 8, Luxman 509X, PS Audio NuWave DSD, Cambridge CXC, Shunyata interconnects & Nordost speaker cable

Thank you!!!

jzzmusician
I have well over 225 hours on the Amber 3. I also installed and SR Orange fuse and very nice Mullard/Amperex Long plate 12au7 tube. Both the tube and fuse have 65 hours on them.  The sound out of the Amber 3 is now so effortless, natural and beautifully intimate.  

My system sounds just as I had hoped. Huge luscious stage with great depth.  I hear further into the recording and space then I have ever experienced before. I love how smooth and easy on my ears and mind the sound is.  Music just floats out and swells bigger and bigger as the volume is turned up. Not a hint of forced or overly forward presentation.  Not a hint! 

Brownsfan, I will report back on complex material and how the Amber 3 handles it. Thus far I find the Amber to be very composed easily sorting out all instruments in their appropriate space. 

The Amber 3 has always excelled in dynamic drive and bass, that has not changed. 


FWIW, I owned and sold that Yggy dac, the slightly modded Orchid sounds way less bright and digital to my ears and in my system.

Since the Amber 3 has come into mention by grannyring (who modded my Orchid)
Bill and myself would say it’s pretty darn unanimous the Amber 3 along with Orchid sound way more musical and natural to our ears.
I have had the directstream in my system and I feel that the other options are superior in every way. I used it daily for a month, so it was well burned in. I’ve had difficulty reconciling my experience with other reports (e.g., the stereophile class a rating). It just didn't work in my system.