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Holo Audio Spring Dac, At last a Stereophile review and tests

Some good reading here, review from Herb Reichert a vinyl junky?

For those who love the sound of Redbook converted with R2R Multibit.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/holoaudio-spring-kitsuné-tuned-edition-level-3-da-processor


Herb Reichert

"To me, a DAC is just a DAC—until it wipes away digital glare and opens the listening door all the way, letting me enter the plain-truth wonderments of the recordings I collect. And the HoloAudio Spring DAC Level3 did exactly that. Its sense of undamaged, I-am-there truthfulness let me relax and enjoy my CDs, and DSD and other hi-rez files, with renewed faith in digital sound."



Cheers George


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lancelock
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I tried the level 1 DAC in my system and thought it was pretty good. Does anyone one know how much more the level 3 gives you?

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shadorne
7,477 posts
 
Poor jitter rejection. Harmonic distortion in NOS mode. Otherwise another great R-2R. Renewed my faith in Delta-Sigma ;-)

More seriously - despite all the measurement errors it sounds like a killer DAC.
ejr1953
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One thing I think is important for a quality DAC is the quality of the AC power it runs off of.  People who know much more about digital audio than I do frequently talk about having an excellent quality power supply and how that effects the performance of a DAC.  In my personal experience, with my PS Audio DirectStream DAC, I noticed an immediate improvement when I upgraded from a Furman power conditioner to a PS Audio P10 Power Plant, an AC power "re-generator".
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