Musical Paradise MP-D2 MK3 DAC

why don't buy one, and then report back

nice to give back sometimes, yes?

btw i have the m-p d1 tube dac... nice piece, very harmonically rich and analog like

garry at musical paradise in canada (chinese sourced equipment) doesn’t get much fanfare and certainly doesn’t do much marketing, perhaps to his own detriment, but he really knows what he is doing in designing/specifying his pieces, he has a very good ear for natural spacious organic sound -- his stuff does not disappoint and delivers a ton of value

garry's $1000 dac is an interesting head on competitor to jian's mhdt dacs... similar organic coherent natural sound, treble is presented effortlessly, not like it is shot at you through a fire hose

garry uses modern ess or akm chips, jian uses old tasty r2r chips - both with output stages with beautifying tubes -- i personally like these dacs (and vlad's audio mirror) more than denafrips, which, while well built and discrete r2r, use ss output stages and thus present music with a bit more of solid state amp clean and lean signature with slightly elevated treble