Holo Audio May DAC

@nquery... I too am using the MAY single ended.  Do report back on your experience with the Bal-SE solution differences I am very interested.

@nquery I have the Pass Labs XA25 which is single ended aswell, but honestly, it's sounds beyond superb to me. No chip dac I've heard has what the May has. Also, I ditched HQplayer, as it didn't do anything for me, personally, but that's just me.  At the moment I control the volume with Roon and derive just as much pleasure, naturalness, uncanny realism, and all the micro/macro detail I've ever heard in 25 years. 

Now my new Legacy Whisper XDS speakers are arriving in late July and they come with the newly upgraded Wavelet 2 ( It's bespoke premium preamp, 4 way dsp active crossover, it handles room/speaker correction, and has a built-in DAC (which I'll only be using via its USB input for "Tribe Virtual DJ", an Oculus VR app that I'm addicted to 😁, which should suffice for EDM genre music I mix), the May will be going balanced into the Wavelet 2, but then back to single-ended to the XA25. I never thought I'd be a Bluegrass fanatic, but the way the May handles acoustic instruments is nothing short of amazing and has me listening anything acoustic. 

Good luck with your changes and I hope you gain an improvement. 

@jcarcopo I go back and forth with HQPlayer - not all of the filters are better than pure NOS. I am really loving the recently added sinc-mx with LSN15 upsampled to 768hz pcm. I also have a $140 intel pc stick arriving this week that I will use as an endpoint so I can try 1.536khz. Really trying to see how much I can wring out of this dac.

Not 100% sure on this but it looks like my May DAC will be here next Monday. Less than 3 weeks from purchase date, Received this from DHL. Can anyone confirm this is the DAC? 

StatusProcessed at HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 9:27 PMShipperPARCEL FROM HKShipper addressROOM 709 7/F LINGNANDUHUI HUAYING R OAD NO 18 JIA HE WANG GAN VILLAGE IF RTO PLS RTN TO HKG FOR SHPR INST OAD NO 18 JIA HE WANG GAN VILLAGE TSING YI nonePick up23 Jun 2021Estimated delivery28 Jun 2021 by End of DayPieces1
 
I have no other items I've purchased from China recently...

Thanks

This KTE MAY DAC has really caught my eyes.

I would have 3 questions for the people on this forum:
1) [ Canadian citizen only]: Has any Canadian citizen ordered a MAY DAC, and how much did you end-up spending for shipping, duties, broker fees, and any other fees on top of the DAC itself?
2) Has any of you owners or ex-owners of PS Audio DSD Sr. had the chance to compare the KTE MAY DAC against the DSD Sr. + Edcor XS4400 mod?
3) Has any owners of the KTE MAY DAC had the chance to compare it against the Aqua La Voce S3 DAC, and if so, how would summarize the difference in sound quality (bass, mid, highs, image) ?