FWIW, my experience was that once the package is noted as being in a service area, it is truly in the domestic pipeline for delivery.
Mine took just shy of 6 weeks to arrive. The sound is fantastic! Crystal clear with a very wide and deep soundstage. The ONLY issue Iām having is that there is a loud POP when I start a track manually (i.e., not when they play automatically in a playlist).
Those clicks might be related to re-clocking. It seems that a variety of vendors might be dealing with this phenomena. Loud clicks of any variety need to die a horrible death. It distracts from digital ā just as with vinyl.
I think I might start with the Red in my theater room where other major changes are going down. This lessens the i2s experience. Anybody using usb or opt? Whatās the bottom config for those? None?
The DIP switches at the bottom are only relevant for I2S.
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Iād like to hear about more comparisons of the Red against either the Bridge II, a Rendu or Rendu + Matrix, an Auralic, an Aurender, or something like these feeding either a DS MkI or MkII. Thank you.
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Wonāt be able to help ya there.
Iām using i2s. I tried to match the switch settings to PSAudios documented pin out. This appears to be āAlt 2ā which is
1- off
2 - on
Then I switched #3 ON because that references turning on i2s for DSD. So,
3 - on
For 4, master clock, i turned it ON because I donāt think it matters as DS reclocks everything, right?
4 - on
As an aside, Iāve tried a number of different combinations and they all play.
FWIW
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Thank you for sharing,
Howās the performance?
Is it ābetterā than your previous approach (and what was that approach)?
Donāt mean to be rude, so please reply if you are so inclined and at your convenience.
I hope to get the Red into the system this evening and eventually (soon) try to critically compare its performance to the Bridge II, which is my current streaming solution.
Cheers.
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Mine arrived. Heavier box than expected! Not by much.
I think it is fantastic. Wider and deeper soundstage and much cleaner and more detailed than the micro sonore/matrix-2 solution I was using previously. Before that, my only other experience was with the disastorous Bridge 1.
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But does it sound more like music? 
Iām not being facetious or trying to be a smart-a** - all the above stuff sounds great, but Iāve run across too many instances over the years where all this great stuff didnāt mean what I was hearing sounded like ābetter musicā.
Iāve had mine for 2+ weeks, and to my ears, the ānoise floorā dropped which brought out more of the details and depth of things. Still sounds like the same DAC, just a better version of it. I would love to hear it against a DCS or an Auralic but Iām guessing it will if itās not as good, it would be very close.
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Thanks for the follow up/reply.
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Going to see if I can get this thing to āplug and playā, now; via JRiver Media Center.
Wish me luck, please.
PS:
By the way, what is the SD card for?
Ignorantly yours.
The OS. Really hope youāre not trying to wing it without reading the manual.
I have been through the manual but I find it to be quite opaque.
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Thatās the base Holo software. Let it load and leave SD card in place. Once you find itās IP on your network log into it and do the software updates. There have been several but it only does one at a time so keep hitting update until it doesnāt update anymore then you can do the setup
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Is the OS pre-loaded or not? I am staring at the manual this very moment and I literally do not understand where to start.
Appreciate your considerationā¦
The OS is preloaded. I had the same thought too. Just place it in the back slot and turn it on to find the IP address. Itās fairly quick and easy.
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