DAC’s

In my opinion, you could get a Chord Qutest for about 2k, which is one of the best DACs around, and save about 5k. Believe me, you will never hear the difference...

This is from a guy who at the start of the year? was in 7th heaven with his bluetooth driven main system. I think what he is trying to say is "he will never [be able to] hear the difference..."

@cakhole

Who are you next going to tell to "go stand in the corner" because they don't agree with you.

You have shown by your comments to be caustic to the extreme. Your skewed opinions have no sway on any audio related matter, and should be ignored.

@shtr74sims

It’s hard to say no to a Denafrips or a Holo May KTE for the money, not gonna lie.

I am a firm believer that most of what I buy can be improved with modifications. Everything is manufactured to its price point. I have a second Dac which has just had modifications completed.

From the original owner, who is testing it for me:

"It still has the lovely clean top but non fatiguing. Detail has improved and its sense of timing. Bass, body and punch has improved too."

The guy who modded it said after two days:

"... it’s really starting to open up now, really nice tonal quality and a fluid ease to the sound..."

If considering the Holo May, contact bigkidz if US based, and at least enquire about their mods.

https://www.vujadeaudio.com/mods-and-repairs.html

My mods are performed by Coherent Systems in the UK.

@audphile1

The comments above have been posted by just one person on this site...

My favourite was them telling some respected members numerous times to go bang their head against a corner wall.

You are delusional. At no point have I used language even close to profanity. Calling someone’s comments caustic is akin to profanity? That’s a joke.

The most dangerous person in the world is someone with a bit of knowledge.

Comments like...

• Fuses are used to prop up the egos of some super human beings
• Expensive cable is for fools
• Power cables do NOT affect amplifier sound
• Most contributors here are superhumans who can hear sounds that do not exist.
• There is no such thing as an audio network switch
• This is catnip for the superhumans on this thread who claim they can hear a difference :). Keep on spending, good laughing material. Anyone who claims they can hear it is either very gullible to marketing or from another planet or on some psychedelic substance.
• Power conditioners are all snake oil and are NOT needed.
• İt is a joke selling a $100 switch to be audiphool modified.So many gullible people around it is simply amazing.
• Actually if you use it in the arctic in a vertical orientation with two polar bears looking at it, the sound is phenomenal.
• If you are hearing a difference it is all in your mind.
• What makes a DAC so expensive: Audiophiles who think that the more expensive a product is, the better it must be....
• If you think otherwise, you are either delusional and/or very gullible to the power of suggestion from marketing folks
• Another snake oil subject. I do NOT believe power cords matter either.
• A $50 cable is good enuf
• Fuses do NOT contribute to the sound in any way AT ALL.
• My cables cost a whooping $50 ant they are perfect. As long as shielded, every cable is perfect.
• When will the audiophools stop fooling themselves and realize the exaggerated placebo effect ?
• Fuse believers should please repeat after me, while slowly and periodically banging your head against a corner wall...
• Anyone who thinks a fuse changes the sound, suffers an inferiority complex, which manifests itself in them feeling superior to everyone else thinking they hear differences.
• Audiophile network switches are snake oil.
• most of the audiogon contributors are indeed delusional :-) That is not a putdown but reality.
• Forget this fuse bull s..t
• Some of you seriously need help. I can recommend a good audiologist and/or a psychiatrist.
• We are simply trying to help some delusional parties who claim they hear voices which do not exist, by introducing them to reality :-)
• The reviewer is either dreaming/hallucinating or had mismatched impedances in his cables in the first place.A $10 coax will work just as fantastic.
• Audiophools judge mostly by price.

In the end, there is no help available for a zealot with a closed mind.