Sounds amazing could not be more pleased with Holo Spring 3. Thank you for your advice and help. If you can recommend anything I should do to improve my system please do.

Wow! Soundstage is larger, more space and air with a nice slam to the bass when compared to the chord qutest i have. It put a smile on my face! Jos and Rob provided a great service!

I'm very happy and very impressed with this DAC. It sounds great just out of the box, and it gets better and better every day. Magna Hifi personnel were very quick and helpful in responding to all of my questions. Their service is excellent, congratulations!

Wow…incredible performance. Anyone who says you can’t tell the difference between dacs once certain measurement goals are reached leaves me scratching my head. The Holo replaced a modified Topping D90 and it was an obvious improvement straight out-of-the- box. After a few weeks it just kept getting better. On one memorable occasion I looked up and thought, damn I’ve accidentally pushed the loudness button on the Luxman, but no, just extra proper bass had suddenly come on song. So I immediately had to go back and start again with all the favourite CDs I’d been listening to. And all this is plain vanilla 16/44 cd replay and 70 year old ears! Great service…great product.

I am very satisfied with it. It has a place in the high end category. Worth the price. The music became much more focused and detailed. I had a Dac with an AKK chip. This R2R is much more analog, more natural.

I received the Holo Spring 3 KTE a few days ago. Just a few hours after listening to it , I had a big smile on my face. It's a great DAC that excited me right away. In the few tests/reviews that I have read on the Internet (I unfortunately had no opportunity to listen to the Spring 3 before) was not overly reported about the device. On the contrary, my expectations were more than exceeded. I am already very happy with the DAC.

The pair Holo Spring and Red plays really with authority and truth, which allows you to hear equally the qualities and defects of the recording. I am using Jplay, which I find more userfriendly than Mconnect, and marginally sounds better.

The Holo Spring combined with the Holo Bliss, takes me to previously unknown territory! The music flows naturally as I remember my records and it really moves you and the amp sings, it's like a musical instrument, it really plays. There is something fluid, dissolving, calm and very gentle, but also fast and very powerful when necessary.

Very nice unit, excellent sound, a good level ahead of my previous DAC, which wasn't bad by the way. I'll let it "burn in" Too bad Holo audio isn't more known, seems it is a good brand

This DAC was a big step up from my streamer/dac Marantz ND8006 and boy you can really tell. Just a few hours in and it sounded great. I replaced the fuse with the SR purple fuse from Magna hifi and the impact on sound was unmistakable. Mind you it still hasn’t burned in yet. Just got about 50 hours or so. I cant wait to hear it fully burned in. Fantastic piece. I auditioned a Chord qutest before and the Spring 3 KTE R2R dac (in my set up at least) sounds way better. Glad I got it. Jos and Rob were both very helpful and patient with my questions:).

I have been using the Spring3 KTE with the built-in preamp for some times now. It is simply amazing. I am so impressed by all parameters included in the term "Sound Quality", such as instrument and voice realism, precision in the soundscape (2D/3D), flow, tonality, micro/macro details, balance, dynamics and so on…. Its ability to adapt to different types/styles of music is one of the main factors making it stand out in comparison with other DAC's I've recently tested. Spring3 KTE is definitely a keeper!

Excellent service and personal follow up! The Spring3KTE is a wonderful DAC. It will stay for a long time. Detailed and natural sound. Precise soundstage.

I'm very happy with the product (Holo Spring 3 KTE) but even more so with Jos @ Magna Hifi. He have helped me a lot with coming to decision. I really recommend both this DAC as well purchasing from Magna!

Device performance is over my initial estimate. Actually, it is a new level of sound that I didn’t hear anytime before. Excellent level of definition of instruments, easy to recognise with sound stage, especially when I am listening to classic and jazz. Vocal sounds natural and gentle.

I have the Spring 3 KTE a little more than one week now. I am really impressed by the sound. I used another DAC in the 2000$ range bevor and the Spring 3 is better in every way. Great product. I could not be happier. The sound is really absolute natural and organic.

Thankyou Magna HiFi, I love the Holo, Spring 3 DAC!

First, communication, that spanned over 3 months since Jos wisely advised me to wait for the Spring 3 at my price point, was excellent, patient and friendly. Second, I'm very happy. At first I was a bit skeptical about DAC upgrade. My BB 1795 TEAC 501 always fed DSD 128 thanks to HQPlayer was quite enjoyable yet. n48 and higher rates capabilities were the rationals to upgrade but the upgrade goes far beyond being able to keep a favorite filter with n48 source or even going from 64 to 128 SDM output rate. I concur with comments such as : incredible precision and detail retrieval translating into remarkable density and stable image, firm and with presence even at the extreme left and right of the sound stage when relevant. However, there was a selling point I sold to myself that was not confirmed : I thought of playing PCM through the R2R and it turns out that every source, PCM & DSD, is better turned DSD 256 with 7EC modulator in HQPlayer. HQPlayer's author wrote in forums that anyway Spring's DSD is better than DSD Cyan and that cost would be in the same ball park whether or not the DAC was DSD only. Furthermore, it would be a pain when I send the sound of movies to the DAC if there was no PCM capability. So things are very well as they are and for serious music listening do not hesitate to convert on fly your PCM content into DSD 256 (no computer can do the EC modulators above 256 and 256 EC is better than 1024 with non EC). The Spring is excellent with every kind of music and I post just after listening to a Cowboy Junkies album but I found myself listening mainly to classical music since I got the Spring for reproduction in my room has never been so close to the real thing and I have attended several classical concerts these very days. Thank you, merci, Patrick

Everything good they say about this DAC is true! This is a full grown DAC with a full grown sound, no doubt about that – easily the most analog, true to disc-info, and neutral in a good way DAC I have listened to. If there is any compromises in this DAC (yes… the May) there is no way one can tell; it’s simply that good!

I'm very happy with my purchase, a HoloAudio – Spring 3 DAC KTE Kitsune (R2R – DSD1024). The DAC sounds just great and is very well built. The delivery also went smoothly and as planned. Magna Hifi personnel were very quick and helpful in responding to all of my questions. Their service is excellent. I will surely buy gear again from them. (Trustpilot review)

I was cautious at first as i was buying from outside the uk. I contacted magna hifi many times with questions on how paying the vat and shipping the item would be done. Jos always answered my questions very quickly and was very helpful. Delivery was a very easy process and the item was packaged very well. It is refreshing to do business with a company that takes pride in what they do!

Le changement récent de mon cable usb m'a fait penser que je pouvais aller plus loin, et le convertisseur Holo m'a séduit sur le papier par sa robuste fabrication et son entrée usb sophistiquée. Restait à voir si le réalité correspondrait à ce que mes oreilles en attendaient. Par rapport à mon ancien GD Audio 19, je n'ai pas été déçu. La scène sonore d'abord : les instruments sont là, en grandeur réelle, avec non seulement la largeur, mais la profondeur et la hauteur (quand l'enregistrement le permet, car c'est là qu'on se rend compte que la plupart du temps on n'a qu'un patchwork de détails sonores juxtaposés). J'ai vraiment dans mon salon le piano d'Ivan Moravec, le clavecin de Christophe Rousset ou le trio d'Oscar Peterson, en trois dimensions. L'équilibre tonal a changé, car le registre grave, repoussé plus bas, ne masque plus le bas medium, et les instruments ressortent mieux timbrés et plus lumineux. Enfin on a tout un ensemble d'harmoniques, de résonances et d'extinction de notes, qui métamorphose complètement la personnalité de l'instrument. Par ailleurs, le son ne se tasse pas dans les sforzandos, mais au contraire gagne en volume et en ampleur. Le grand clavecin Couchet que touche Christophe Rousset dans les Suites de Louis Couperin paraît comme illuminé de l'intérieur, et prend tour à tour des sonorités de luth, de carillon, voire d'orgue, absentes jusque là. Bien plus, cette musique, sur laquelle je n'avais qu'une oreille admirative, me devient maintenant captivante. Le grand piano forte Broadwood, à deux claviers, que joue Georg Ewald Dahler dans les Impromptus de Schubert, instrument que j'ai dans l'oreille, pour l'avoir entendu en récital, est beaucoup plus riche en harmoniques, et prend par moments des teintes cuivrées ou argentées, sans parler d'un registre grave à la fois modelé, profond et léger, jamais empâté ni confus ou asséné. Je mets le légendaire enregistrement des Nocturnes de Chopin, par Ivan Moravec, impeccablement remasterisé par Supraphon, et c'est le choc, ou plutôt l'hypnose : une sonorité liquide et pourtant incroyablement dense, affranchie des barres de mesure, une variété de toucher à se demander s'il n'y a pas plusieurs pianos, les notes les plus ténues d'une fermeté tactiles, un son palpable, et une main droite qui décroche des pluies d'étoiles en haut du clavier. Le plus impressionnant est peut-être l'extinction de la vibration de la note à la fin de chaque Nocturne, qui se poursuit sur plusieurs secondes, et j'entend encore (ou je ressens pour être plus exact) après, la présence de l'air qui a été déplacé, comme lorsqu'un chat rentre la nuit dans votre chambre, et que vous devinez sa présence silencieuse. J'ai fait pas mal de photo dans ma vie, et je dirai que ce Holo me fait penser aux objectifs Summicron de Leitz : on pouvait trouver plus de détails, de micro ceci ou celà ailleurs, mais rien n'égalait les Summicron pour la résolution, le transfert des contrastes de noir et blancs, la profondeur et le modelé des gris. Jusque là mon ampli à tubes 2A3 Emission Labs n'avait pas encore trouvé de partenaire amont au niveau de ses qualités, mais c'est maintenant chose faite

Great service and listening room. After testing several dacs against my own, I bought the Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE dac. Amazing sound.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity to test the Holo Spring 3 DAC. This device has taken the music experience at my home up a notch.

Upgraded from an Audio GD Reference 5.32 (modified) to the Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE after testing my Ref 5.32 against the Audio-GD – R8 MK2, Holo Audio May KTE and Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE. Both Holo Audio DACs are more holographic and place instruments and voices better. The overall sound is just natural, spacious and engaging. The guys at Magna Hifi are very helpful and I visited their listening room twice. Great dac, great service, both highly recommended.

I’m very happy with my new Holo Audio Spring 3. It sounds absolutely wonderful. The only problem is I'm staying up too late at night. I just want to keep listening :) Thank you again for your excellent service.