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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
I'm not anxious about SINAD, in fact I think it's a nasty metric that is misleading on its best day - just way too many variables for such a thing to be meaningful across a range of hardware and systems. So no worries on my end there. And while I do acknowledge I'm sacrificing some DR - I'm not... -
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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
@Baj55 might have some thoughts on this. Totally unrelated to that, I decided recently to simplify some things. Namely - I sent back the LA-4 preamp; and as I'm a computer audio user with HQ Player integrated with Roon, I decided to try going direct from May KTE to my amp, using HQ Player for... -
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Denafrips product owners please fall in
If you can get HQ Player set up on a windows PC, all it takes is a screenshot if you have a DF DAC. Now the settings do depend on your PC hardware so I suppose a screenshot isn't the end of the story, but it's usually enough to get you going in the right direction. While I've moved on from my...- toddrhodes
- Post #462
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
LA-4 came in today. This combo is pretty incredible. Easily the best I've heard in this room, and it's not close. Funny thing is, both the May and LA-4 provide exceptional resolution, refinement, and detail but they sacrifice nothing for enjoyment for the sake of being analytical. They just give... -
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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
May KTE arrived on Monday. I've been playing constant music through it so far. In what will be no surprise to anyone here, it's damn good. I recently had the opportunity to audition the Benchmark HPA-4 in my system with the old DAC, a Venus II. The change from Freya+ in passive JFET mode (and... -
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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
Hi John! Great questions, and absolutely "heard" on letting May run in before really evaluating. For Freya+ - yes I did upgrade to new tubes after listening to the stock, new TS tubes. The TS tubes it comes with are great - balanced, quiet, and I'd say pretty transparent. I upgraded to PSVane... -
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Denafrips product owners please fall in
Venus II owner checking in. Running from a Zen Stream operating as HQ Player NAA, feeding Venus II with DSD256, ASDM7EC modulator, sinc-mx or gauss-long filter. And I have seen the measurements indicating they are not true "NOS," however I do wish someone could test the scenario of another "true...- toddrhodes
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- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Holo Audio May KTE Dac
I will hopefully be getting my May KTE in another few weeks. Will be comparing to my current DAC, a Denafrips Venus II, fed from an iFi Zen Stream via USB. And I use HQ Player to upsample/convert to DSD256 with ASDM7EC, gauss-long filter, and even without the May in this system, I'm hearing at... -
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What features of Roon are worth the price? Compensate for Roon’s poorer sound quality?
Hi @christoph - Miska/Jussi's HQP NAA images can be found here: https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/naa/images/ On my Pi4, I specifically run this image: https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/naa/images/naa-4112-raspberrypi4.7z They are essentially a stripped down Linux OS with the only components running... -
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What features of Roon are worth the price? Compensate for Roon’s poorer sound quality?
I often wonder in these discussions, since I use HQPlayer and drive that data out to an HQPlayer endpoint - not a "Roon/RAAT" endpoint - maybe I'm not the target audience? Because lately I've tried various players like Gentoo, PiCorePlayer, Symphonic MPD, and the stripped down HQPlayer "NAA... -
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What features of Roon are worth the price? Compensate for Roon’s poorer sound quality?
I'm sure I could do it with other solutions, but I was able to add a zone to our house for my kid's room last weekend. Took a Pi I had laying around the house, slapped a $28 DAC/HAT on top of it, and bought a $40 pair of in-ceiling speakers. We pre-wired every room in the house for speakers back... -
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Denafrips product owners please fall in
Denafrips Venus II user here. Picture from last night: Currently playing around with power supplies on my HQ Player endpoint (the little Pi in the picture) and have some other things on the way to construct a USB DDC so I can output i2S into Venus II. I'm actually quite happy with USB in via...- toddrhodes
- Post #344
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Thoughts and feedback from three new cables (VHAudio designs) I recently built and installed
Much appreciated on those suggestions. I do have some recordings from that time on vinyl with access to more in High Rez. I'll grab what I can and have a listen. I will say that undeniably, music "like that" has become far more compelling since I made these changes. That's not new for me, the...- toddrhodes
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- Forum: Audio Cable Forum
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Thoughts and feedback from three new cables (VHAudio designs) I recently built and installed
Many thanks. A couple of my other drum recording references are Elton John - Honky Chateau (Amy, title track) from the original UK pressing, and Supertramp - Brother Where you Bound (title track, original vinyl, also featuring David Gilmour on guitar I believe). Both have this big, open...- toddrhodes
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- Forum: Audio Cable Forum
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HRS Damping Plates v Artesania Audio Dampers v Entreq VibbEaters
I use those pads all over the place. Under my vinyl rack from when I had some equipment situated on top, under subs, as cable lifters. I was happy enough with them being under sources that I now run IsoAcoustics pucks under my sources and even under each leg of my Sol turntable, as well as the...- toddrhodes
- Post #36
- Forum: Vibration Control Forum
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