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i agree as well, os with slow filter best compromise

nos sound a little sloppy in comparison, os mode has enough musical 'density' 

Also a happy Pontus II owner here. Contemplating whether to get Hermes DDC! 😃

I'm also using OS with slow filter. Hearing pretty much what you guys noticed.

@gladmo, interesting you found the coax and optical sound similar. With my previous dac I was limited to optical. Still gonna try a coax to connect to my Node 2. Will see what happens. 

I have tried coax via RCA and BNC, USB, and AES/EBU and prefer the balanced input by a small margin. USB was a close second.