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Holo Audio Spring (Kitsune version)

Anyone bought this and have compared it to comparable dacs within the 2K - 4K range? I've never owned a NOS Dac, and as I've been reading up a lot on the Holo technology, a lot of it is starting to make sense to me.  I only owned/heard delta-sigma DACs so far, and honestly haven't found anything to complain, but then again, I have no basis for comparison.

Currently few of the DACs I am interested in are : Mytek Brooklyn, Holo Spring Kitsune edition, T+A DAC8 DSD, Matrix X-Sabre Pro.
nitewulf
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pbnaudio
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Tried the Denafrips Ares R2R DAC which I thought sounded really nice, especially for the price, basically about the cost of 3 of the BB1704UK original R2R ICs :-) if one can find the originals anymore.

The Denafrips had some user interface deficiencies though  - like 1mm LED indicators and Gray silkscreen on a Black faceplate.

Good Listening

Peter

1markr
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@nitewulf ... just single ended; my system doesn't support balanced mode. It seems most people highly prefer the HDMI input of the L3 Spring DAC which I did not try. My comparo was only USB.

The T+A was also on my list, but since I was able to trade in my E12, I went with the E32 instead. Exasound has developed a custom ASIO driver for Mac OS X, so it's nice not to have to use DOP to get DSD, rather I get native DSD because of the ASIO driver, up to DSD256. I don't have the hardware to support DSD512 anyways.


reggy
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Can anyone recommend a preamp, monitor controller or such with any of the Denafrips products? I have the Ares, will use it with active studio monitors once I find something decent with a buffer.
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