Holo Audio Cyan 2 R2R NOS DAC: BEST Hi-Fi of 2024!

By prioritising performance over non-essential features, Holoaudio’s most affordable D/A converter proves that less is more when it comes to delivering the sonic goods.

The ability of this non-oversampling, resistor ladder DAC to accept PCM rates from 44.1kHz through 1,536kHz as well as DSD64 through DSD1024 will delight not only purists who prefer to listen to music without a digital reconstruction filter but also tech-obsessed tweakers eager to exploit the very latest advances in external oversampling algorithms. It is this versatility along with the smooth and articulate sound it produces that makes Cyan 2 such a bargain.

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