'..the other competitors I mentioned that would rival its sound are all valve and far more expensive and within its price range I’d struggle to find anything to better the M3.'
https://www.hifipig.com/bricasti-design-m3-dac/
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…and that was the review I wrote and the reason why I bought it. Also much preferred over the M1, which I’d say is better for classical, yet for everything else, the M3 wins - I admittedly did gush a bit over this one. I think one of the reasons was that I had tried so many DACs recently at the time and the M3 just had that extra bit of magic and tonality.
ide give you 1250 for the m5 if it helpsI have the m5 network streamer, tempting