Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

@audphile1 

Thanks for the info. I'll work on my profile on Monday. Tomorrow is a busy day.

After owning DACs from PS Audio, Benchmark, Whest, Luxman, Bricasti, Marantz, Wyred4Sound, Bryston, Prism, Auralic, Cary, Berkeley and others, I installed a Holo May KTE.

NEVER before for digital had I heard such analog-like human voices. My 32/384 LP rips are as enjoyable as listening to the LP, a level that was never reached consistently by any of the other DACs.

My turntable is an Acoustic Signature Montana Neo with TA-7000 Neo and Origin Live Agile tonearms, and a DS Audio Master 3 equalizer with Grand Master cartridge, and ZYX Optimum with MoFi MasterPhono. The AD converter is an RME ADI-2 Pro fs r Black Edition AD/DA Converter with After Dark power supply.

@imjerrys 

Interesting. So, you hear no difference between the vinyl record and the hi-rez digital feed? What albums have you digitized? One album that I used as a benchmark was Bill Evans "Waltz for Debbie" which is stored in hi-rez on Qobuz. The one place that sounded markedly different from vinyl was the long decay of the cymbals. I felt as though I could hear the DAC working overtime to reassemble that fading decay that must be an extremely complex wave to recreate. I am using the Meitner MA3i streamer, which often sounds as good as vinyl. I've been testing out digitized versions of records I have.

@audphile1 

Does your Meitner drop tracks sometimes on long hi-rez pieces? Chatgpt advised me to lengthen the amount of time for the Meitner to drop off without dropping the track completely. It dropped a track during a Haydn string quartet at 24/96. It doesn't happen often, but it happens.

@audio-b-dog no. Never. Sounds like your internet issues continue.