HoloAudio May Dac, New King of dacs? Stereophiles review on it?

So you owned something that you KNEW sounded awful for a while? Wow!! Why? What did you replace it with that did not sound awful?

It was faulty or something, I had the "Spring L2" lent to me for 2 very enjoyable weeks, it’s a great dac especially in NOS mode, and this new "May" dac is said to be a magnitude better again, and the bench test measurements back it up.

Cheers George

I just got an Ayon Stealth and am amazed by he improvement.  I also have the Oppo/Modwright 105d and am surprised by the improvement.  I just run DSD direct and love the Oppo presentation.  I have always preferred attenuation through a robust system (Aesthetix Callisto eclipse) then the cheaper implementations that are usually accompanied in the DAC

I have always preferred attenuation through a robust system (Aesthetix Callisto eclipse)

You need to do some homework, most "good solid state dac's" have output stages that will be more "robust: and will have more current drive than most any tube preamp, and many solid state preamps also.

Cheers George

thynames
While I stated this in my post,...


I bought the 105 for SACD and DVD-A, which sounded good, not fantastic. The redbook sucked, which is why I bought the HD CD-1 and the AA DDP-1, which significantly improved on the 105 playing redbook

There was nothing better in my price range to play SACDs/ DVD-As

hth