![]() ![]() As the HoloAudio doesn't have a volume control, I connected it and the Weiss DAC502 that I was going to compare it with to an NHT PVC balanced passive control unit with 2m lengths of Canare cable. The system used for a weekend's worth of listening tests comprised either my KEF LS50s or the GoldenEar BRXes that I review elsewhere in this issue, driven by Parasound Halo JC 1+ monoblocks via AudioQuest K2 speaker cable. The May has four operating modes: NOS (for Non-OverSampling) OS (OverSampling PCM data to higher-frequency PCM and oversampling DSD data to higher-frequency DSD) OS/PCM (oversampling PCM and DSD data to higher-frequency PCM) and OS/DSD (oversampling PCM and DSD data to DSD). The review sample was the top-of-the-line Level 3 version ($4998), with both the processor and power supply having the serial number 1911541872. ![]() ![]() Once Herb had finished writing his review of the HoloAudio for the August issue's Gramophone Dreams column, I sped to his Bed-Stuy bothy and grabbed the May DAC, both to get it on my test bench and to take a listen for myself. It makes every recording sound non-digital." "I am, with great difficulty writing about HoloAudio's new two-chassis May DAC," he wrote. The email from Herb Reichert was intriguing. ![]()
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