Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review.

Yep, that’s the way I read it too.

What a great thing to have, to know when volume is too high and the load is too hard for the dacs output buffer. It’s got a distortion sensor that blinks the red led, nice. This will prove to you if it’s not loud enough direct and you need more gain from an active preamp.

" “CLIP” indicator: Will blink when the DAC output signal is clipping. You should not turn the volume knob higher than to where the red “CLIP” LED will not blink."

And it may blink at different volume positions, depending on what load the dac’s output buffer sees, (the 10kohm of the DNA-500 or the variable input 30k -120k of the CJ-17LS2 depending on it’s volume position.)

So if you’ve just turned it back down a little from where it blinked, what’s that volume like when you go direct to poweramp?

Cheers George

Soren Kristensen is held in very high regard as a digital designer.

Really? By who? I have never heard of him. I don't see any amazing accomplishments. 

Really? By who? I have never heard of him

Settle petal, don’t get around/couldn’t be bothered searching.

I said in my opening post "digital designer" not just dac’s

Just search at DiyAudio with conversations he has with digital gurus over there and with the likes of Nelson Pass and John Curl etc. Then look at his family digital communications business in Denmark.
I believe this Dac part is just for his musical passion and had to get involved in it.

Cheers George

Well Nelson pass is primarily an analog guy, ditto Curl, and so what w.r.t. his family business. It's a silly statement. He is likely no better (or worse) that 100's of thousands if not millions of engineers.  DIY Audio is a good site, but not the panacea of leading edge. 

Wow!!! well don’t buy one then, what’s your beef with the Danes, are you Swedish or Norwegian they don’t like them, suppose you don’t care for Gryphon amps either?

Like I said

Very affordable highly regarded discrete R2R dac from the Dutch

Find something else around $1k that competes sonically with discrete R2R ladder design, with all the features it has.