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HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner.
Has anyone placed an order and received this dac? Would be nice to hear impressions through loudspeakers too. 
HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner.
Very much looking forward to listening impressions from those who finally get this dac into their homes. :) 
HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner.
Tim, good of you to drop by. Those who have indicated their interest can start ordering now. A very big Yay for them! 
HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner.
I wish them well+1. 
esoteric products
Today’s top of the line Oppo decks beat anything in the esoteric line....Dumbest thing Ive read on this site in a long time..but as they say you cant argue with stupid!. Stupid is as stupid does........ :) 
Esoteric N-05
Sounds like a dealer and a cheap one at that, too. You can peddle your wares in another section of this site - and pay for it.Moderators, kindly delete this thread. 
DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment
Very interesting.....If you didn’t sound so serious, I would have thought you were punking us. :)But it does sound real and at the same time, surreal....... 
esoteric products
PS Audio Directstream Junior vs rivals...http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/08/digital-audio-comes-of-age-with-ps-audios-directstream-jun... 
DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment
However, though I hear no difference, the MQA recording makes my ears hot, and uncomfortable. More on this later.??? 
DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment
http://www.stereophile.com/content/listening-mqa#cp3kmAj6ToocuiAS.97The comments section is interesting as always. The difference is definitely there but it is a different type of difference, sort of like the difference between 2 dac's.It's eithe... 
esoteric products
I feel your pain. Tossing the P-10 transport is painful and so is the shipping and repair bill.I bit the bullet a while back by replacing something mechanical with a server/computer. My most humble opinion would be to use the huge savings from the... 
esoteric products
zephyr24069,You have a srunning system with Esoteric source/electronics and others. I can imagine how much better the N-05 would sound in your system with the Rubidium clock. Cheers!J. 
esoteric products
Jon2020: How do you like the N-05? What are you using in terms of NAS or local/remote cloud storage? cloud storage?Zephyr24069,The N-05 has turned out to be an amazing surprise. Its usb implementation has improved by leaps and bounds over that of ... 
esoteric products
This is sad news indeed. Anyway, I have traded in my K-01 player for a non-mechanical dac/streamer in the form of the N-05 when an opportunity came up recently. Having ripped all my cd's to flac, I can now dispense with the transport.One would exp... 
DACs that upsample to DSD internally?
PS Audio Directstream, EMM Labs, dCS are ones I can think of.These 3 companies are certainly recognised by audiophiles and audio journalists all over the world for making great sounding dac’s. It matters not what chips they use or whether they con...