jon2020
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| HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner. Getting a bit confusing here, "discrete dsd" vs. native dsd........From Jeff Zhu, the dac designer :- "If Spring works in ’NOS’ mode. There is no oversampling, no conversion, just the original data doing the final digital to analog conversion........ | |
| HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner. as i know , AK4137 is only for SRC, it is bypass in the nos mode nos mode should be optimal for pcm as I have found with my own Esoteric dac(N-05 which uses the AK 4490 chip) set at no upsampling plus pcm filters off. Looks like for dsd, the Spri... | |
| HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner. It uses the AK 4137 chip which is third in the "Velvet Sound" line-up of chips from AKM, used also in all Esoteric players and dac's. Interesting that the AK 4137 can be implemented as R2R.http://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/featured/velvetsound/htt... | |
| HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner. This thread makes good reading....http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f6-dac-digital-analog-conversion/holo-audio-spring-digital-analogu...but nothing about its sound. | |
| 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... |