A moderate priced dac

@jmolsberg I just ordered the Tubadour III Statement to replace my MyTek Liberty.  I can’t wait to hear it in my system.

I bought a fairly expensive Dac $3k and then I bought a Dac for a couple hundred dollars and compared the two. I sold the higher dollar Dac and kept the other as the difference was minimal at best.
On some songs, I couldn’t even tell the difference. Other songs I could hear a very slight difference or I convinced myself I could. At any rate, you may want to try doing that. Buy yourself an expensive one and a lower dollar one and you may be surprised at how little the difference.

MHDT Lab-Orchid. $1,100 and you can tube roll the output tube. One can also change out the stock TDA 1541-A stock chip for a Philips TDA1541-S single crown (which i did). The damn double crown went up in price before i decided i wanted to upgrade that far. This DAC sounds surprisingly good.   

I love the Orchid. Best value in audio today when it comes to dacs. Wonderful sounding dac.

Look at SMSL and Topping. Save yourself a bunch of money. Seriously.