mudguardiain
100+ Head-Fier
The Holo DAC’s are great, I have the Spring 3 & it appears to work well with the Cayin I preferred it to theTT2 I borrowed.I just stumbled across a pristine pair on eBay by chance. I would contact the regular tube sellers online and check availability. Perhaps you could try other E80CCs to start with; their main characteristics should be the same with smaller differences. (At least this is what I read but can't confirm from first hand yet.)
It is true, that the DAC seems to make a bigger difference with the MJ3, but all amps are quite strongly influenced by DACs in the end. I have never tried the Yggy, but the Cyan 2 is by far the best sounding DAC (to me subjectively) that I have owned. And I used to own a few including Chord TT2, Pegasus, Soekris 2541, Qutest, RME ADI2 and so on.
The Cyan 2, while it offers the beautiful and lifelike rendering of R2R architecture, is also highly dynamic, punchy, alive with good slam and plenty of details. Excellent DAC with strong party vibes!
Btw, thank you all guys for the positive posts!
Has anyone had any experience with Siemens E82CC, Langrex have matched pairs available, tempted to try some.