Hi Everyone,
Got a new toy today…Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE DAC…can folks take a look at the attached settings? Anything I have “wrong”? It’s playing fine and sounds great…coming from my RME ADI FS which also sounded great…but had to change some settings in HQPlayer c this dac so just wasnt sure what right looks like! I do have the DAC Correction engaged in Matrix!
Thanks
Doug
Hi @Douglasmaurer, congrats on your purchase… I don’t use embedded but here’s my take coming from hqp desktop.
Also, my experiences are with the May KTE, but I believe a lot of settings are similar.
For PCM
DAC bits: 20
PCM gain compensation: -6db
LNS15 dither is probably best
Always good to set max volume to -3db
I think quick pause should be unchecked.
The SDM modulator is preference, I prefer ASDM7EC-Super or ASDM7ECv2
You already have DAC correction enabled which is a huge plus. Jussi worked some voodoo magic with that.
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As @ffk said, modulator choice is largely up to preference. For best technical quality and performance, the newest ASDMxEC-ul/light/fast/super are recommended. Also if you like to do DSD1024 with the Holo Audio, AHM7EC8B is recommended for that case.
Current default is ASDM7EC-fast.
Thanks Jussi and everyone for the tips! Definitely a fun dac to experiment with as it can do so much and sounds really great!
Ah, my mistake. I wasn’t look at the settings when I wrote that. Thanks!
One more question. I’m running v5.16.3 and I’ve noticed the closed-form-M16 filter seems to be missing. Has it been removed?
No, but maybe you are doing PCM output instead of SDM?