I too am wondering if anyone has tried the Holo Cyan 2 with the MJ3? Or has compared it to the Denafrips Aires or higher?

Checking back in. Still loving the MJ3. Wish I had the capability to run balanced in. My DAC has balanced outputs, but I wanted to run everything through my tube preamp, which sounds effin' awesome, BTW! Here's some pics. You can see the little RCA switch box on top of the preamp that I am...

And don't forget the magic of Choke filtered power supplies. It makes a difference.

Here's my 24 hour review....

No, thinking more parallel rather than series setup. I.e., tube pre to either headphone amp or speaker amps, with minimal additional components or connections. Not sure how I'll make it work yet. The system as pictured currently has the M1 DAC (supporting either CD transport or CCA) and vinyl...

Chapman T-7's. I'm currently trying to figure out how I can keep my tube pre in the chain. I don't like the idea of splitters or switch boxes on the RCA outputs. With the Gustard I had it running off the tape outs. But that is such a waste to have to turn on the pre and light up the tubes just...

On it! I actually have a WyWires red for the LCD's. Gonna look into re-terminating it into balanced. It's not quite long enough (7' vs. the 9' stock Audeze cable) for this setup and sitting in listening chair.

This isn't its final home. Just temp setup for initial testing. Running a Pioneer DVD-V7400 industrial dvd transport into a Musical Fidelity M1 DAC (modified to Liquid Audio mods-diy) balanced into MJ3 to LCD-2 (originals updated to Fazor status). Also have a CCA running into the DAC via...

It was originally scheduled for delivery on Saturday. Received a text FedEx at about 4:40am that it would be arriving a day early, estimated between 10:50am and 2:50pm. Luckily I have day off, but had committed to breakfast with a buddy. Told him I had to be home by 11:00. He's always late and...

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.....!

Got notice that mine shipped today. Ordered 11/27/23

You gotta login in the upper right corner on the Schiit page, from there you can view order status.

Same here, I ordered on 11/27/23 at 8:45pm.

Yeah, I thought/think the same thing. But, I do wish I had seen it in time to run down the street and at least audition it. A missed opportunity not many can take advantage of.