🔷 Holo Spring 2

[M0N]

@rmsanger

With that said will the Volot have the same problem pairing with Holo Spring Dac that the Formula S has? It’s not fully balanced but dual mono so not sure if that has the same drawbacks.

It says that it has an active differential line receiver, which would handle balanced signals and avtively convert them to single ended internally, this likely would make it so it could take advantage of the spring when used balanced. But really can’t say until I hear one myself lol

[rmsanger]

thx didn’t realize that the ‘active differential line receiver’ gives a SE amp similar benefits of fully balanced. This all gets confusing AF.

[M0N]

That’s not exactly it, but it allows the amp to take in balanced signals properly and convert them to se with a decent degree of quality (from what I know). It does not give the amp the benefits of an entirely differential system, but that’s getting too deep into it, and personally I don’t really care about the design, I just care about the results lol

[Polygonhell]

@rmsanger

thx didn’t realize that the ‘active differential line receiver’ gives a SE amp similar benefits of fully balanced. This all gets confusing AF.

All that really matters is what it ends up sounding like.
It has an actual summing circuit, so it’s using both sides of the input, just a question of how that affects the sound.

[A_Jedi]

@rmsanger

A follow up post said:
"It’s pretty simple. Dual mono means two separate mono amps each with its own power supply. The only difference between a dual mono amp and true mono amps is that the former are in the same chassis while the latter are in separate chassis. This is different from the traditional amplifier where you have two mono amps that share the same power supply.

A balanced differential amplifier contains four separate mono amps - two for each channel (one for the plus and one for the minus). Each channel pair cancels out the noise of each other (the noise that’s picked up on the positive and negative signal wires). That’s the main benefit."

FYI, my posts on other boards are copyrighted and trademarked. You owe me seventy million dollars. I kid of course. But seventy million dollars would have been cool.

[rmsanger]

do you accept Rupees?

[A_Jedi]

I DO! lol  

[rgdelato]

Hello there! If I was looking at picking up a used Holo Spring 2 in the coming months, does anyone have recommendations for what sites I should keep an eye on (US-based)?

It would be cool if the release of the Spring 3 ended up meaning some good deals on a Spring 2, but I don’t really know how the market works for these kinds of things.

[Polygonhell]

Market is based on demand things that are commonly mentioned in forums like this tend to be over valued used.

Hifishark.com is a good place to start.
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[Mattslee]

Hi, I have a Spring 2 KTE DAC. It stops working with music that its resolution is higher than 96k Hz. Is anybody know what the issue is?

Thanks,
Matt

[Delta9K]

Hi welcome to HiFi Guides !

Sorry to hear about the Spring 2 KTE having issues.

Is this a new issue that has recently started ?
How are you connecting the DAC to your source?
Are you using any software like roon or HQ player?

Have you reached out to Holo Audio? Tim Connor at Kitusne Hifi (HoloAudio USA) is a nice guy and knowledgeable. He can be a little busy at times but has always got back to me.
you can fill out a message form at

Kitsune HiFi Contact Us Form | Kitsune HiFi - HoloAudio USA

[Mattslee]

Thanks for the reply.

I contacted Tim and he suggested me switching usb port and it works for dsd256 now.

I use foobar2000 as player.

Thanks!