Torq is right. I certainly wouldn't trust buying from anyone other than kitsune. They are very transparent and I'd rather pay the retail to get it from them and have the peace of mind -- which is what I ended up doing. 

And just as an aside I will add that the HOLO Spring competes with dacs double and triple its price. You should not be complaining about pricing going up.... especially considering that it is because of raw material and component cost.   Just my 2 cents!

The Spring DAC is certainly leagues ahead of the yiggy... I have heard both (own a kitsune tuned edition spring). The yiggy is a not capable of producing sound half as good as the spring (literally) -- it can't even do dsd.   Vampire, you should totally get the yiggy!

I will certainly fix the post -- my apologies.   Indeed, I can understand how it would be a pain to see a much less expensive DAC compete with that $13,000 thing.   You sort of have to love it at that price, no?  

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You really need to check out the Holo Audio Spring Level 3 DAC. It is the only DAC in the world that can do DSD native on an r2r ladder platform. It can do up to PCM & DSD 512 native and it sounds tremendous.    I got this DAC (level 3 version) a month ago and it has blown me away... I just...

I just finished breaking in the new fuse I bought for mine. AH platinum fuse -- it's a whole new level. Vocals are to die for.

It discretely handles dsd in nos mode without any conversion or sample rate converters. Pure native dsd!

Very interesting.      So what effects are you seeing with the improved shielding? 

  Yeah I have seen it, very tempting.    Which one do you like better? 

I think I may sell my white case industrial Intona. I really want to pick up a new black cased industrial Intona from KitsuneHifi.com. Good news is that they have them in stock and are a USA distributor.   If anyone wants to buy a brand new industrial intona let me know. 

  You should totally try it. I think that these days dacs are climbing to prices that are just totally unreal. I think that dollar for dollar the spring is undervalued when you compare it to other super dacs. I have heard many people say that the Schiit Yiggy is not even in the same ballpark...

I talked with KitsuneHifi and they said they have their singxer products in stock and ready to ship from the USA. Also, they gave me a code in their mailing list for singxer stuff, but that expires next month. The kicker is that there are obviously no customs delays since they ship from...