exactly, I have everything cabled, when I want to listen to speakers I turn on my power amp, and unplug my headphones. Reason being not to accidentally overload the headphones 😀

Yes, mentioned it before here, works flawlessly! And yes the magic is there. Be careful to unplug your headphones if using as preamp as all outputs are active at all times

I can repeat myself, May KTE with Envy and Susvara is endgame for me, I doubt any other dac would sound better. You could trick yourself into believing anything, for me the search ended :)

Native PCM sounds the best, no point in DSD. I do use hqplayer to upsample the Roon stream to 1.5m

I use the Holo May KTE, I stopped searching or thinking I need another dac

I use an AHB2 as a power amp with Kef reference 1 meta, beautiful! I was thinking of trying speakers directly out of the jack, but due to the 5w power limit you would need at least 90db sensitive speakers. I had the Klipsch heresys but didn’t get around to try, though I assume it would work nicely.

Plus 1 for Holo May, best!

Good morning, I turned off the envy last night only to wake up and see it on! Anyone else had this issue where it turns on from standby? It happened once before but I couldn’t be sure if I had forgotten to turn it off. Last night was alcohol free so now I’m sure.

Might sound ok, but for my eyes it’s ugly😑 also seems to otl, not sure how that works with all headphones. No 300B either…

You could ask to buy without tubes, those press harder on the bill I guess. Then again, people buy single cables for more than 800€

I agree, occ copper has a slight edge! And the Performance badge is worth it:)

My Envy also hums if I put my ear in the transformers (big black box on top), but I can’t hear the hum on high impedance in Susvara. On low/mid with Stellia if there’s absolute silence, maybe just the tiniest bit, definitely not disturbing. Lukasz said it’s something with my mains, as they...

I don’t know how can you get these discounts, Lukasz Feliks told me bluntly they don’t offer discounts to anyone!

Yes, Mad24 are awesome, low gain!

It’s not necessary, it depends on your needs. If you have 95db sensitive speakers you could easily plug them in the 6.3m jack and run them very well. I use an AHB2 because it’s the most transparent and powerful enough amp that I can afford and that can run my inefficient bookshelf speakers. It...