MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3?

Congrats Bob! That’s what this hobby is all about, recreating an event worthy of your attention and I’m thrilled for you that listening to your new dac has brought you joy. Indeed, Grannyring is one of the good guys and there is likely a little "kharmic mojo" goodnesses infused into your new Orchid because of its prior owner.

Happy new year as we all chase the elusive....

Congratulations indeed. You got yourself a great DAC. Enjoy.  

I like that this thread ended up with people buying both dacs under consideration and everyone coming away ecstatic about their systems.  Good work.

Having a tonof experience modding products to get the most out of them 
the orchid has a lot of hidden potential just by upgrading all the white smoothing,
coupling caps . The Pogota is much better then the orchid it is a true 20 bit 
classic Burr Brown 1704 chipset and sounds very good . I have upgraded 2 of these and a orchid  changing the 6 white caps , upgrading the fuse is a dramatic upgrade , you can go even further upgrading the power supply caps many installing a all copper Furutech IEC input. We are talking over a 10% improvement across the board and comparison with dacs several times their cost 
the New Jolida Black ice  glass DSD with a few mods is a giant killer 
stock it won in a shoot out against several well known dacs . The mods are a big plus .

I have a maxed out Lampizator Amber 3 with totally upgraded bigger case .
no need to remove 16 screws and remove the whole case I set it up just slide off the top . I  put over $2300 in upgrades with tube rolling options and the best of the best  parts and wiring .i am upgrading to a modded Atlantic . Nothing under $6k is as musical or versatile as this dac and looks great.
it had stock 6x5 rectifier  tubes , I find the 6ax5 Tungsol or Amperex verygood. Upgrade. I  had added a 5 v transformer for Even better sound the great classic 5ar4 and currently using nos 1950 RCA 5U4G coke bottle smooth plates exceptional sound.
rectifier tubes and without question help to Taylor your system .