Holo Audio May KTE vs DCS Rossini Player / Clock
Like the title says.
I’ve been using the Holo May DAC for a while and really like it a lot. Because it’s what I do I bought the DCS to try out as an alternative or possible upgrade to the May DAC.
I don’t have the DCS (none Apex) home yet but I’m wondering if anyone has compared these two units as DACs and what your experience is? Also, can anyone comment on the Apex upgrade… at $9k that’s a lot of moolah, can it be justified?
I’m using an Aurender N10 as source, various amps, preamps, and main speakers currently are the ProAc D40R which tend a little to the warm side, this being one of the prime reasons for trying something a little more neutral than an R2R DAC.
I will report back with what I hear, but predictions??
Rooze
@rooze I read alot about it too, which is why I purchased it (at the right price)..But the proof is in the pudding at they say, put my ear on it and just didn't sound like music. Definitely not a system issue, I have had a bunch of dacs in here as of late, all sound decent, not like the May though. Have you listened to Audio Note, or Total Dac in your own system? Heck even the Border Patrol DAC sounds better than the May.. If not give it a whirl you will see what I am referring to. |
I had the Holo May KTE for around a month. Great build quality and functionality but there was something incredibly irritating about that DAC for me. Same reaction I get when I listen to Chord Dacs... It was layered and textured, and more or less smooth, I wouldn't say warm by any stretch-more clinical. Issue for me was it was NOT musical at all to my ear, and quite honestly I think alot of the folks lauding it haven't really taken the time to listen, or audition truly musical DACs.
To each their own but that DAC was cold to me and not musical. Listen to an Audio Note DAC, or a Wavelength Audio DAC, or MSB or Total DAC, thats musical. I think this DAC is widely being mischaracterized as something it is not. |
