My 2019 Update Thread - My final system I think.

[Ali Tait]

LOL no, decided I didn't want to put a thousand miles a week on it, so I picked up a 2014 Hyundai I20 last weekend for £1500. Couple of rust spots which I'll fix, but generally in good nick and drives fine. Has a full service history on 109k. Bit of a bargain I think, plus it does 50mpg. The Stinger can sit on the drive looking good. :-)

[Macca]

LOL no, decided I didn't want to put a thousand miles a week on it, so I picked up a 2014 Hyundai I20 last weekend for £1500. Couple of rust spots which I'll fix, but generally in good nick and drives fine. Has a full service history on 109k. Bit of a bargain I think, plus it does 50mpg. The Stinger can sit on the drive looking good. :-)

Makes sense. Thousand a week is insane mileage.

[Ali Tait]

I like to be at home if I can. Been used to doing the mileage over the years as I've always worked on site, but if I wasn't getting away early I'd most likely stay over these days, but I'm normally back in the house by 5. Be too long a day if I wasn't, keep getting my nose rubbed in the fact I'm not 20 any more. :-)

[Macca]

I like to be at home if I can. Been used to doing the mileage over the years as I've always worked on site, but if I wasn't getting away early I'd most likely stay over these days, but I'm normally back in the house by 5. Be too long a day if I wasn't, keep getting my nose rubbed in the fact I'm not 20 any more. :-)

You must have retirement before much longer? I was out the house at 0730 and not back until gone 1800, in bed and asleep by 2230. Not much time in between to do anything or even just to chill out.

[Ali Tait]

Few years yet I think. I do often think about it but I know I'd get bored. My Dad worked until he was 72, could have retired at 50 if he'd wanted.

[Gazjam]

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This thing is a Beast!

[Macca]

Good looking unit.

[CageyH]

Getting the Pre 90 remote to function takes a little bit of time, as you have to find the correct angle.

[Jimbo]

Wow Gary KTE Version - Very impressive!

The Holo Audio Cyan 2 stopped me playing vinyl!!! Had it for a few months now and in NOS it sounds unlike any other DAC I have heard and has at last converted me to digital. Build quality and SQ on another level and I would put the Cyan 2 up against anything else out there but I expect its only true competition is now sitting in your system!

Give me a call if you can sometime Gary and we can have a yabba about Holo audio.

[Gazjam]

Thanks everyone.

Been fitting out my kitchen, haven’t even heard it yet!

Plugged the May and the Pre90 in late last night before going to bed to get some heat in them, will have time to day to hook it all up and have a listen.
Running it all fully balanced and using i2s, and in NOS, so hopefully take full advantage of what the May can do.

From reading about I know the May Dac needs a lot of hours on it before it really starts strutting its stuff.
That’s fine I’m in no rush, know what to expect.
The version I’ve got has a lot of silver in it and from experience that can take an age.

Will enjoy the journey.

Also,
Had a think about the best way to position the May Dac, it being a two box’er?
You get an umbilical cable about 1m long so have the option of separating the two, but I like the two of them together as a unit.

Various folks around the web run it that way, but that said the Dac box runs really quite warm, so I don’t want to stack directly on top of each other.
Checked temps this morning,
the May power supply gets only slightly warm, but the Dac box heats up like a power amp. Must be all those ladder resistors packed in so tight.

So I’ve used my tried ‘n trusted IsoAcoustics feet to separate the two boxes.
From an isolation point of view, the Dac is sitting on a glass shelf, so I’ve used another set of Iso feet under the power supply to get it off the glass shelf.
It keeps the look, but gives the Dac box a bit more air around it.

Anyone had a Topping Pre90?
Aside the bad remote control anthing else worth keeping an eye open for?

Read that some folks had issues with gain from their power amp, would be a pisser if that’s the case here.
The big Meridian should be ok, but you never know.

Find out today.