Nice review! One thing And Magna is from the Netherlands.

Thank you for this valuable contribution 👍🏻

https://www.the-ear.net/review-hardware/holo-audio-spring-3-dac-level-2-digital-analogue-converter

The Titanis V2 USB is very very good. Before i used also the Singxer SU1, but the MAY sounds better via USB.

Hi, nope i'm not a reviewer, i write down my (subjective) listening experiences :) But thank you!

No, the volume buttons on the remote of the MAY do nothing. There is NO volume control possible with the MAY

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The Serene sounds great. Beautifully open, dissolving, yet powerful.

Whoa :)

I actually wrote it wrong. The MAY sounds good immediately after switching on. After an hour it sounds fabulous :)

It takes at least an hour for it to sound good.

Thanks for the compliment 👍🏻 I picked up the Serene KTE just an hour ago, first notes are very promising!

I have it for 2 months now and the Serene is a really great pre-amp, i wrote my experiences down here: https://www.audioenzo.nl/holo-audio-serene-l1-en/ Today or tomorrow i will receive the KTE version of the Serene, so exciting :D

I will let it play 24/7 for a few days before serious listening, so it will take some time. True, the L2 left the building last Friday.

Source is NAS > NUC with Roon > SOtM sNH-10G switch with sCLK-EX on sPS-500 PS > SOtM sMS-200Ultra Neo with sPS-500 PS I had the MAY Level 2 dac, also great! Before that i have used Cambridge Audio 851N, Audio-GD Master 7, NOS7, R7 and HE7

Source is NAS > NUC with Roon > SOtM sNH-10G switch with sCLK-EX on sPS-500 PS > SOtM sMS-200Ultra Neo with sPS-500 PS > Holo Audio MAY L3 KTE DAC > Holo Audio Serene L1 Preamp (soon KTE version) > Kinki Studio EX-B7 mono power amps > Xanadu HRS80 speakers with active bass (Hypex Fusion Amps)

My MAY KTE arrived monday :)

Yep, it's that good 👍🏻

I've had the R7HE too, but went back to the R7. Of course there was a difference and the R7HE is better, but not that much either. In addition, the HE was simply too large. The difference between the R7HE and the MAY is bigger in my experience. But it also depends on which set you use the DAC...

I ordered the MAY Level 2, it will arrive here with a week. But before I ordered I was able to rate a demo device, also Level 2, and compared it with the Audio-GD R7. The MAY sweeps the floor with this dac .....

Why?

Edit: same post as above

It also sounds great. I wrote a review (in Dutch though): https://www.audioenzo.nl/holo-audio-may-dac-level-2/

It's out there :ksc75smile: