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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... 
DSD vs. PCM vs. MQA - Group listening experiment
Only 7 hardware manufacturers have signed up so far :-http://www.mqa.co.uk/customer/our-partnersNot much to wonder why. Main reasons are :-1. Licensing fees from recording studios, artists and hardware manufacturers2. Stringent hardware/software r...