@kclone Headfi eluded my Google search. 27 pages, yikes. Lots of volume but not much content. One interesting blurb though on comparison to Holo Spring 3. @smweber2 Great you were able to demo a friends unit in your system. Now you know what to expect. Yes, appreciate your future impressions after first 100 hours. Sounds like many are waiting on their units at this point. I'm hoping that within the next month or so more feedback will be available. |
audiostick, if you go to the last couple of pages on that thread, there is user impressions, not much before that. smweber2, I ordered May 31st, confirmation said shipping at the end of June. If they moved it to later date, I haven't been notified yet. Anyway, description of your experience with it is very encouraging. |
I ordered mine May 3rd and got a notification it shipped today and should arrive on June 20th (direct from China) via FedEx. I've been searching for non-professional reactions and comparisons all over and it looks like the YouTube reviews coincided with a soft product launch, with only a handful receiving units prior to the wider release that began shipping ~2 weeks ago. Lots of hype, but the sober take from GoldenSound on that HeadFi thread sounds like it's a solid DAC for the money, but not on par with a Holo May or better. Good to mention he's running his through HQPlayer and seems to prefer native NOS, which isn't what the Laiv was designed for. I was actually considering cancelling and going with a used Holo May or stepping up to a MSB Discrete, but Weng has been very responsive and a pleasure to deal with. It's also hard to ignore that there isn't a single negative comment from the handful of people that have gotten a chance to listen to one and the price is fantastic. |
@kclone I wish I would have known that yesterday morning before reading the first 20 pages - aargh. @pynkfloydd Thanks for the input. I agree with you and am impressed by Laiv's professionalism. I wrote them on a Saturday night, and had a response the next morning. Impressive considering the experience I just had with a major U.S. audio manufacturer. After receiving a second defective unit of the company's most expensive version of their most (famous and) expensive product, Technical Service quit communicating with me. I had to contact Sales for return authorization. She asked me if I wanted my money back or if I wanted to try again. I was and still am very disappointed with that whole experience. I had planned that purchase for over a year. That company not only lost my purchase, they lost me as a customer for life. |
@audiostick Obviously the Major US Audio Manufacturer is complacent and doesn’t really care about your business. Good riddance. Laiv is new and hungry for business so I say let them earn it, we’ll soon find out if this is a new Denafrips/Holo Audio/Eversolo type brand or just a hype train running out of control. |
