Holo Audio May DAC
I placed an order for the Holo May KTE this morning after a few days of mulling it over. It measures superbly. Some R2R designs don't measure well at all. I want the simplicity and naturalness of the R2R topology, but not the jitter or added distortion. The May KTE DAC fit my requirements perfectly. |
Just got my May Level 2 yesterday. Plugged it into my Torus TOT Max conditioner. Currently streaming ROON from my remote laptop through wifi to mesh endpoint then via ethernet to my HifiBerry Digi + outputting via coax to the May in NOS mode. Mfr recommends 500 hours of burn-in. It sounded great right away, though, and I'll be running it constantly for the next week or two. Initial impression compared to my Chord Qutest is smoother sound, extremely large soundstage with huge center images, no loss of detail but maybe some loss of crispness at the edges. Bill Evans' piano on Classic Trio 1959-1961 sounded a little harsher at loud volume but also bigger/fuller than Chord. Almost everything else I played great through and through. |
I got mine today and have had it running for a few hours now. I am always leery of posting impressions of something I've had so little time with as I'm certain to have some bias in my excitement to try something new. That said, it sounds wonderful. The Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ that it replaced was no slouch in my opinion, but the May is so many steps above the Brooklyn it's really hard to believe. Huge soundstage, detail and liquidity of sound. I've only played CDs through it so far but it is very impressive. I'm going to play some stuff through my Innuous Zenith Mk3 after this. This is fun! |
redwoodaudioProbably just showing up the recording equipment of that era, as the they changed from Germanium transistors (yuk) to early Silicon not much better. "Silicon transistor was made commercially available by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1958".Cheers George |
