Oh my, oh my - Aries Cerat Helene DAC

I can't stay silent - today we received Helene DAC, "baby" DAC from Aries Cerat. What a baby, what a beauty. From the very fist second the sound was sublime, digital rarely gets better than this - in form of Kassandra DAC only probably. I am not saying this lightly, just compare Helene to all the big guns, you would be surprised. Rich, transparent sound, real body of instruments, timbre to die for, as analog as possible, but most importantly, natural music flow, touching your heart and soul. Be warned, after listening you might need to sell some very expensive equipment. But there is solution - you buy Kassandra LE, thus may be less painful.

 

What can I say? The attenuators are mainly used for microphones in the studio. There's no alternative unless you use a different output transformer with a different ratio in the DAC. They're not expensive, so try them out. Just for your information, preamps usually have an input sensitivity of around 0.7 volts, so around 2.5 volts is no problem with noise.

Thanks I will try it out. I can see similar products in bigger form factor from Little labs.