GoldenOne Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 1 minute ago, brightonjel said: Thanks, GoldenOne, I'll ping them and see what gives. (This is the KTE version so should have the upgraded USB hardware in place?) Yeah definitely should be the latest. If you wouldn't mind letting us know what driver version they give that'd be great https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 14 minutes ago, brightonjel said: Thanks, GoldenOne, I'll ping them and see what gives. (This is the KTE version so should have the upgraded USB hardware in place?) Also, download the 3012 upgrade file above and open the dfu file with the may connected. What does it say your firmware version is? https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Just now, brightonjel said: Yes, for sure I'll report back when I hear something (and I'll hold off trying the 3012 file until then.) You can use the dfu file in there to check what firmware you have. It won't update unless you click update https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
Popular Post GoldenOne Posted January 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2021 Dacyanicky, SwissBear, Flextreme and 1 other 2 2 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 2 hours ago, Flextreme said: I should mention that I also tried an PCIE Asmedia USB 3.1 extension module and have a AMD x5800/x570 board. That will be why. A lot of the PCIe USB cards do not work with the higher sample rates. You have to use one of the direct USB ports. The May additionally has two versions of its firmware, one which supports 1.5mhz but may not work with all PCIe cards (this is stock usually) and one that maxes out at DSD512/PCM768khz but will work with all the PCIe and other USB cleanup products. Personally i'd say that 768khz on a good USB source is much better than 1.536mhz on mobo output anyway. https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 26 minutes ago, Holzohr said: I have installed Roon Bridge and HQPlayer on the same Windows machine and use Sync S and LNS15 with Wasapi. Use ASIO not WASAPI https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 8 hours ago, Flextreme said: I tried all ports, removed my jitterbug, no luck so far. Also deleted devices with Device Cleaner before trying different ports. I'm running on v1.20 firmware, should be recent?! BTW, I also like VR, and my HP reverb G2 headset also had USB issues. Mayby it is AMD related, or mayby it is time for a clean Windows install, mine is 4 years old. Come to think of it, I can try my intel based laptop. Will focus on testing 7xx Khz rates. I have to say, that Roon's upsampling is also an option. Especially with EQ enabled I prefer it over standard signal. It is clear to me HQplayer upsampling seems to give slightly more resolution, but i need more time testing the different settings. It is a fun but also tiring process because the differences are subtle. Is there a objective way to find out (other than subjective listening) which USB port gives best results? Double check you're actually on the firmware that allows for 1.536mhz playback. There are two versions of the may firmware. Download the attached file and run the "DFU" file (make sure you've got holo drivers installed first). If it says you're on 3014, then that's the 768khz version. If you're on 3012 then it should play 1.536mhz fine. (If yours is a later number than these then you might have newer firmware so i'm not sure, let us know if that's the case though) You can swap between these two firmware versions freely. If you are on 3014 and want to flash to 3012 then you can do so by clicking "Update" in the 3012 file holo_gen2_3012_upgrade-20201231T222201Z-001.zip holo_gen2_3014_768k_upgrade-20201231T222148Z-001.zip https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Flextreme said: Thank you!! I could not find firmware upgrades for the may anywhere, where can I find these. It says 30.14 in my Asio info tab. Are there any specific benefits to 30.14? Does not make sense that the higher version does not include the upgrade. But it does not matter if it works. :) Edit: these are spring firmware? I noticed after the update, when my dac was listed as spring in Roon. Going back to 3014 did not work. Did a driver/device cleanup, also does not work. I will contact Kitsune for support, I hope they have a May firmware they can send. That's just cause roon doesn't have tagging for the may yet (though they have reached out to holo for it apparently) https://community.roonlabs.com/t/add-identification-for-holo-may-dac/115197 So it will have removed whatever custom name you had for it previously. afaik 3014 is just for better compatibility with PCIe USB cards. If you don't have one or don't have any issues, try flashing the 3012, should allow you to use 1.5mhz (though ofc some PCIe cards may not allow this, so try with mobo connection) Kitsune's latest drivers are here: https://www.kitsunehifi.com/product/holo-audio-may-dac/ Click the "Downloads" section. https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 13 minutes ago, Flextreme said: That is where I also originally got my drivers. That page specifically stated there is no firmware upgrade for May available. The firmwares are listed as Spring onoly firmware in the readme. I knew all this, so I never tried them. * Spring2 new usb firmware 30.12 * Spring2 new usb firmware 30.14(only support up to pcm768k and dsd512). This firmware can be worked with those ‘hifi’ PCIE usb cards. I assumed you sent me specific may firmware updates, and you got them privately from Kitsune. Luckily the firmware update tool still works. There isn't a firmware update, just a firmware swap. (between 3012 and 3014). These are for the may, wildism (Asia official dealer for holo) gave them to me. I have no idea if the spring 2's upgraded usb firmware is the same as the may or not. (I think spring 2's upgraded module and the may share the same firmware but could be wrong) No one has mentioned if they've received any firmware update privately from kitsune so unfortunately I don't know what they're providing. I did ask kitsune a while ago just in case they happened to have newer/different drivers or firmware than wildism (the drivers wildism gave me are actually a newer version than what kitsune has on their site) , but they told me they wouldn't provide any info/assistance cause I didn't order from them. So no idea what's up. You can freely swap between the two firmware versions though. Because you were on 3014 that is why you weren't able to use 1.536mhz. If you swap to 3012 it will work. https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 49 minutes ago, Flextreme said: The .bin file you provided is identical (on a bit level) to the .bin file in the official download, where Kitsune states that this one only is intended for the Spring (both on the website and in the readme). I can only assume it was a misunderstanding by wildism. Did you use these firmwares on the May? I'm only disappointed in myself, because I was not careful enough. I was not sure before flashing, and I assumed these were really May firmware. The firmware version was on the May was 3014 in my asio tool before flashing, so it all looked fine and dandy. I did read everything displayed by in the firmware tool, but is does not mention Spring or May. Too bad the 3014 firmware form the downloads does not work either, luckily the May is not bricked and the firmware tool still works. This could be a easy fix, at least I hope so. I have not heard from the Kitsune Support yet I'm not sure. These are the ones provided by wildism and they worked fine on my may (which has the may-specific upgraded USB). Additionally there is no may-specific firmware in the kitsune download. As I understand it, the Spring 2 "Gen 2" USB implementation and the may or may-upgraded USB use the same firmware, whilst the spring 1 (and some early spring 2's) use a different one. Though I have to say it is frustratingly unclear. If you do hear back from Kitsune, would love to know what they say, I imagine there will be others who might chance on this thread whilst looking for may firmware stuff and it'd be helpful for many. Plus if there is a may specific firmware i'd want to put it on mine. Hope you can get yours sorted for 1.5mhz! (PS: Did you try running 3012?) https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Also, Wildism gave me v4.82 drivers for the may. Kitsune only has v4.67 on the site. So I have no idea what's going on or what's what. I do wish it was a bit more clear as to what firmware is the latest and what is for what. https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, Flextreme said: can you share those drivers? Yep! Attached HoloAudio_v4.82.0_2020-01-20_setup.exe Flextreme 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 3 minutes ago, giordy60 said: . hi Devil a question .... which server do you use to upsampling to DSD 1024? thanks I think the dsd5 modulator is fairly light on the cpu so 1024 isn't awfully hard. Its the ec modulators that sound amazing but are incredibly intensive. Though personally I prefer asdm7ec x256 to anything I can run at x1024 Diavolo 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
Popular Post GoldenOne Posted January 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Flextreme said: Purchased HQplayer, after I figured out I do prefer the additional resolution/sprakle you mentioned these settings will bring, I agree with your conclusion. I can easily imagine many prefer DSD, but the May is so incredibly detailed without ever being harsh, it handles these PCM filter settings like a champ. I look forward experimenting with the filter settings once in a while and am curious future versions of HQplayer bring additional improvements. I'm hoping for a software version of Chords M scaler. Thanks I'm actually getting a home-demo of the chord Mscaler in the coming weeks. (Dealer is currently shut due to lockdown so will have to wait til they open again though). I'll be using it with the may so will post my findings and comparison to HQPlayer here once i've given it a proper run. fds and Flextreme 2 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
Popular Post GoldenOne Posted January 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2021 Holo v5.0 drivers are out HoloAudio_v5.0.0_2020-12-15_setup (1).exe Holzohr, Diavolo and Flextreme 1 2 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Extreme_Boky said: That's what I thought. I hope the +5V coming from the source is used only for the hand-shake / initialisation. But, how would they separate the grounds (laptop ground - MAY DAC ground, using the isolator IC's, and still be able to power up the whole USB interface with the internal power supply. This would mix the grounds and make isolator chip redundant. It would be good to know exactly how it's done. I imagine they may have done something similar to the ifi Igalvanic perhaps https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I'm not entirely sure how the may's USB is done in terms of what powers what, but I can say that its the only dac i've got where I cannot hear a difference between using direct to PC vs my SMS200 Ultra. Even the chord dave (which has galvanic isolation on the power lines) did show a slight difference. Seems the may's USB is exceptionally well done, but as Diavolo said, ymmv. Play about a bit and see what you feel works best for your setup Diavolo 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Lightwave said: Got my Holo Audio May DAC yesterday. It’s getting more than 16 hours of burn-in time so far. Should I let it burn-in continuously for the recommended 500 hours or switch it off from time to time? The May runs hotter than I expected so I’m a bit nervous if it should be burned in continuously. Not sure about burnin, but there is definitely a change in sound warm vs cold. Would strongly recommend not turning it off unless you have to. This goes for other r2r dacs, rockna, denafrips etc. The schiit yggy is infamous for its warmup time. Diavolo 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Just wanted to post re: the drivers issue Looks like kitsune has updated their driver/firmware download page now: https://www.kitsunehifi.com/product/holo-audio-may-dac/#tab-downloads-links Driver v5.0 is out, and also its got the 3012/3014 firmwares in there. It confirms that the same firmware is used for spring 2 and may which is good. Also, for @Flextreme it says in the .txt file in the driver folder that apparently 3014 has been the "stock" driver since late 2020, but that they recommend you upgrade to 3012 if your USB chipset is compatible. So that explains why you couldn't use 1.536mhz stock. Diavolo 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
Popular Post GoldenOne Posted January 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Flextreme said: Yeah they cleared up the text on the homepage and in the driver: good. It was very confusing. Tim explained that 3012 mostly works on Intel, I figured my USB (AMD) would be the bottleneck. THe may is not the only device struggling: had similar issues with my HP reverb g2 vr set. FWIW I've had some trouble on my AMD machine with the 3012 firmware, it won't do 1.536mhz and for normal sample rates the ASIO control panel has to be set to 16 bit, 24 bit won't play (i've no idea if its still playing 24 bit or not over asio from roon, I think it is but will check with my ADC once it gets back). On my Intel PCs and any linux devices/streamers though no issues at all, "it just works". So it does seem to be hardware dependent. 2 hours ago, Flextreme said: Do you actually notice an audible difference with 1.536mhz in comparison to 768khz with HQplayer? I can't say that I do no, and I usually just run 768khz via my SMS200 Ultra anyway (which actually technically can do 1.536mhz but i've not been able to get it to work properly). There is just something rather satisfying about having 1.536mhz on the display XD 57 minutes ago, Lightwave said: @GoldenOne do you know if firmware 3012 is compatible with old MacBook? Other than support for 1.536MHz, does the lower sampling rates sound better with 3012 firmware? I have no idea, but the older macbook stuff is all intel so i'd assume so. In terms of sounding better with 3012 firmware, i'm not sure, i've not done any subjective AB tests, or objective null-tests on it, but given how the advice in the driver folder is worded, it sounds like if you are able to use 3012 you should. I highly doubt there's any real difference though. 1 hour ago, Lightwave said: My understanding is that the 16/44 before any unfold is not the same as the 16/44 you get from red book due to compression. Not saying that I can hear the difference in the lossy compression. 😅 I don’t have access to qobuz in Canada. What I read online is that the same track in TIDAL usually sounds thinner when compared to Qobuz. When I compare my flac files purchased from ProStudoMaster.com, TIDAL sounds thinner. That’s my subjective impression and I don’t have a large library to compare with more variety of tracks in TIDAL. (Apologies in advance for the long post here) MQA files without unfolding are indeed different to the "standard" flac version. I did a DeltaWave test between the non-MQA release of "Level of concern (Live from outside)" by twenty one pilots and the MQA version (no unfolding). The full report is attached, but the main things to note is that the correlated null is only 58dB, and looking at the spectrogram, higher frequency content is most affected. You can repeat this test yourself using deltawave (or audiodiffmaker for a more basic test), and any MQA file from tidal, vs a standard res one from qobuz or elsewhere. Important to note: A NON-MQA file from tidal and Qobuz are a perfect match. So this isn't an issue of the two services having different files. This difference only exists when MQA is involved. (Time on X axis, frequency on Y axis. Green means more similar, red means less similar) In fact even just looking at the spectrogram of the MQA vs Non-MQA file, the MQA version has all sorts of HF-Noise whereas the standard version does not Standard: MQA: Why is MQA bad? Many reasons: 1) MQA incurs an additional cost to you. You are paying for the licensing fees that are tacked on to products to get MQA support, and at every other step in the process. A good post from the manufacturer Linn is available here: https://www.linn.co.uk/blog/mqa-is-bad-for-music 2) MQA restricts what manufacturers can do with their own products. Schiit has spoken openly in part about this here: https://www.schiit.com/news/news/why-we-wont-be-supporting-mqa MQA requires manufacturers to hand over not only extensive information about their product design to MQA in order to get certified, but also a significant amount of actual CONTROL over the design too. MQA gets to have a say about the hardware and filters that can/can't be used. For instance ifi having to remove their custom filter options when MQA was added. 3) MQA is NOT sourced from a high-res master. It is NOT higher resolution than normal FLAC. MQA creates files however they damn well please. Artist Neil Young actually removed his music from Tidal in protest because he provided tidal with standard 16 bit / 44.1khz masters, and suddenly, tidal made available "HiRes MQA" versions of his music. Most MQA is simply minimum phase upsampled versions of the original (further evidence of this in point 5). https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Tidal-Misleading-Listeners "Tidal's master is a degredation of the original to make it fit in a box that collects royalties. That money ultimately is paid by listeners, I am not behind it. I am out of there. Gone. My masters are the original." - Neil Young 4) There is ZERO proof of any of MQA's claims. There is absolutely zero evidence to support any of their marketing, claims that they can fit 24 bit 192khz content into a 16 bit 44.1khz file, and in fact, all objective evidence and testing so far conclude that MQA's claims don't make sense. All testing so far shows that MQA is nothing more than a minimum phase upsampling filter, which is arguably WORSE than a linear phase filter that most decent DACs or upsampling players will use. MQA is 100% closed-source, and they go to great lengths to make it impossible to directly compare files that have not been altered. 5) MQA is actually probably worse than native playback. MQA makes it impossible to obtain a "normal" and MQA version of the same hires file. BUT, Stereophile did manage to convince them to send an MQA encoded single-impulse file. Their testing showed three things: - Playing back an MQA encoded file on a non-MQA dac caused issues, and created an asymmetric impulse response. - Playing it back on an MQA capable dac, it was minimum phase, not linear. - Playing back a NORMAL, non-MQA encoded impulse response file, with MQA filter turned on on the DAC, produced an IDENTICAL result to the MQA file, all but proving that MQA is nothing more than a basic minimum-phase upsampling filter. https://www.stereophile.com/content/mqa-tested-part-1 There is significant evidence from multiple third party sources to show that MQA has all sorts of problems. http://archimago.blogspot.com/2018/02/musingsmeasurements-on-blurring-and-why.html MQA vs NoMQA.html cbnbmore, ThenewGearPPK, Josh Mound and 3 others 2 3 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Just now, Lightwave said: @GoldenOne, thank you for the detailed explanation on MQA. I appreciate you taking the time to shed some light on this confusing and seemingly protected MQA practice. It confirms what I heard. Perhaps MQA stands for Mob Quatrol Assurance. 😆 Now if anyone knows how Canadian can sign up for Qobuz, please help a brother out. Should be able to do so through a vpn I think! Diavolo 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Flextreme said: "Sinc-L" is better to my ears than sinc-m, which makes HQplayer better than M-scaler?! Its entirely possible. Sinc-M/Mscaler are 1m taps. Sinc-L is 2m taps @768khz. I'm not sure if it goes higher than that for 1.536mhz. Maybe @Miska can clarify? But yeah Sinc-L is looovely. Jussi did some fantastic work there <3 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 10 minutes ago, Lightwave said: Given how robust the May’s USB interface is in handling jitter and how clean it sounds now, has anyone done any A/B hearing between feeding the May from a MacBook or Mac Mini with Audirvana (or a windows laptop) vs a dedicated music streamer like Lumin/Innuos/Aurelic? I have no idea if my next step to get a dedicated streamer will result in any discernible improvement in SQ. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've got an SMS200 Ultra which gives a sliiiiight improvement. On other dacs its much more noticeable. But on the may honestly I wouldn't worry unless you're using a beefy gaming PC or something (in which case I'd want to isolate from it just in case cause of how electrically noisy they are :P, hell my main PC when the GPU is active the noise floor of my speakers (connected to my 2nd DAC which is connected to PC via USB) is audible whereas when pc is idle its not. https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
GoldenOne Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Loli said: Anyone heard the Rockna Wavelight? I can't find any comparison between Wavelight and May A user on head-fi posted a comparison: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/holo-audio-may-dac-speculation.865892/post-16088847 Loli 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
Popular Post GoldenOne Posted February 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, fds said: Anyone here using the Holo Audio May with the HQPlayer volume control directly connected to power amps as the favored setting? Is that a setting that works well? According to JAs Stereophile measurements it seems to have a max output on the balanced outputs of 5.8V at 1kHz when using NOS mode. (https://www.stereophile.com/content/holoaudio-may-level-3-da-processor-measurements) Does this apply when feeding native DSD to the Holo Audio May NOS mode as well? Also does the voltage value matter when thinking about using a DAC with HQPlayer volume control directly connected to power amps? Somehow I remember that I had read a comment from @barrows on this somewhere even in relation to the Holo Audio May but I was not able to find it. With DSD its 2.9v according to the manual The may handles low-level signals better than most dacs so it'll do DSP volume control very well. Personally i'd prefer to use a dedicated pre but either will certainly work (I'm using a goldpoint SA2X) fds and Diavolo 1 1 https://youtube.com/goldensound Roon -> HQPlayer -> SMS200 Ultra/SPS500 -> Holo Audio May (Wildism Edition) -> Holo Audio Serene (Wildism Edition) -> Benchmark AHB2 -> Hifiman Susvara Link to comment
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