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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
pragone
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Orchid on the way... What's life without a little risk
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grannyring
6,510 posts
 
Love it! True that. 
big_greg
6,655 posts
 
I bought an adapter to convert to a 6SN7 tube (I used a Sophia Electric) and gave it a brief tryout in my stock Orchid. I couldn't get it out fast enough. Not recommended. Should have listened to grannyring.
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uberwaltz
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I always listen to Bill.....at least in this arena.

Hope to have the WE tube before the weekend, left the Orchid cooking last night on a playlist so will see today what it sounds like, should be just over 30 hours on it by now.
big_greg
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I bought my Orchid second hand here, and it came with an assortment of tubes and DAC chips.  Being already "burned it" it sounded great from the moment I first inserted it in my system.  I haven't tried them all yet.  I have the original chip in and I think at the moment a  WE 396A tube.  It was only $35 for the 6SN7 adapter and I already had the Sophias, so it was a relatively cheap experiment, but the 6SN7 definitely was a change for the worse.
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