Later I found out about the Denafrips and was pleasantly surprised by price and performance. So when I saw the picture of the Spring and the inside I was excited but also put off by the price. Also max 96kHz, slight output mod so as to mirror the little one. Later I bought the more expensive Teradak 8x TDA1543 with usb and still use in my workshop. This gives me the truest transient behavior, real detail, no fatigue, great decay and ambiance.

And NOS-R2R-filterless was what gave me the cleanest transients. So I started tweaking that little R2R, and I'm still using it, and started questioning 'WHY'? Then I found temporal behavior has been severely neglected. Not my tweaked to the hilt AK D/S with tube output stage. Then it struck me: this is what my €45 R2R with the old Philips chips sounds like. I could hear some cues, the great ambiance, the hall, decay and not fatiguing at all. While I sat in the pew I looked at the individual musicians but I couldn't place them like I thought I would. When I sat down I started listening with my 'hifi ears'. That summer during a fair in our village centre our old 12th century gothic church was open to the public and played an acoustic live classical concert.

After I had (re)discovered the true strenght of R2R 10 years ago with a 4xTDA1543 dac that could decode up to 24/96, started modifying it I got convinced of the qualities of R2R. So it would come again closer to the May or surpass it.Ī few years ago I saw what i thought was my dream Dac, the Holo Spring. It has the same name but is a different and improved model. with all that you tested, the Denafrips Terminator plus is sorely missing.

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