When I bought my red, it was promised that this would be avialable via ‘future release’. A year or so later adn this is still the case, what happened? Did Holo Audio just abandon the device or have I missed something?
Better not trust any rosy promises in audiophile territory - too many bad examples around.
It’s just like expecting better sound from bigger numbers.
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I would write them directly to ask this question.
Apart from that, how do you like the Red with Roon?
I believe that if you use the naa os on it, then it will do extreme bitrates. Ask in the hqplayer thread.
I have obtained DSD1024 and 1,5Mhz with the Red USB. On page 2 of the user manual, it states that with RopieeeXL OS it will do these rates over I2S - I have not tested this claim.
For the money, it gives very good performance and I went for it mainly because a) I use a Holo Spring 3 KTE as one of my DACs so it can feed straight into it and b) its oversampling capabilities. Not many streamers/transport that potentially sound better, or review better, do this. To be honest, I dont know why I’d ever want to change it at this point.
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I also currently do use the NAA OS from Signalyst. Its limited to 768k
Thats interesting, thank you. So, it seems that its more of a software update rather than a hardware/firmware update thats holding it back. So far as I can tell, RopieeXL isnt available? Looking at the search history, it was released in 2019 and then pulled.
RoPieeeXL is just RoPieee now.
How if you have not tested? 
DSD1024, any music recorded, mastered and released yet?
I wouldn’t get caught up in all this.
I have compatible equipment to replay DSD512, however I’m happy sticking with DSD64 as a max. I don’t perceive any great differences above 24/48.
Via USB is straightforward and I typically use the USB output from the Red into the Spring 3. I just wanted to try the I2S to compare the output connections and its more that I dont like feeling I’m leaving something on the table via HQPlayer upscaling.
If you read my comment again, I have not tested the I2S DSD 1024 but tested USB DSD 1024.
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