BHK pre-amp vs Holo Audio Serene

Haven’t been here in a while. I don’t care for Roon DSP in any way. I had the Serene for a few months before it died and they sent me a replacement which I promptly sold (for a small gain) and decided I preferred Roon → HQPe → NAA → May DAC. HQPe performs the volume control. I’ve been running this way for nearly 2 years without any sonic desire to change.

No one has a need for upsampling until you take just about anything up to DSD512 with Jussi’s advanced modulators and filters…then you can’t go back.

How do you like it?

Better than software volume control. But for the price, meh