AUDALYTIC HP70 vs Shiit Kara

[Matthew]

Hi All,
I'm a bit of a Shiit fan and have been looking about this Black Friday weekend at a new Pre-Amplifier for my mix of balanced and single ended sources. I need balanced output for my power amp.
I am thinking of the Shiit Kara but came across the AUDALYTIC HP70 whilst looking about. The design looks good and it appears to offer similar technologies to the Shiit for about half the price but I cannot find anything by way of a review or other comment. The HP70 is about half the price of the Schiit so I'm wondering if I'd get close to the same performance at a substantial saving!! Can anyone offer any comments on the AUDALYTIC HP70?

 

[ChefBrunch]

I have some schiit , I like it, Why not the Saga2? another option is the midgard...not sure how many inputs you need total.

I also in the hunt for a new preamp, but I'm looking to move up from a Schiit FreyaS . its a great preamp, but Its not the SLP electron of other high end models I'm looking at.

Lot of good schiit is available second hand....I'll be looking to sell my Freya S and lokius before too long myself...cheap.

but no comments on the Audalytic other than it looks pretty good for the money.

 

[Lutra]

Hi All,
I'm a bit of a Shiit fan and have been looking about this Black Friday weekend at a new Pre-Amplifier for my mix of balanced and single ended sources. I need balanced output for my power amp.
I am thinking of the Shiit Kara but came across the AUDALYTIC HP70 whilst looking about. The design looks good and it appears to offer similar technologies to the Shiit for about half the price but I cannot find anything by way of a review or other comment. The HP70 is about half the price of the Schiit so I'm wondering if I'd get close to the same performance at a substantial saving!! Can anyone offer any comments on the AUDALYTIC HP70?

Hi, I have my eye on the same Audalytic HP70 too, and it's matching Audalytic DR70 R2R Streaming DAC DSD512 PCM768 Bluetooth 5.0 Decoder. I have them in my Aliexpress cart but won't buy until I get more info on them.

What I understand so far is that they are a sub brand of Gustard. There's a guy who recently bought both and is currently testing them out right now in this link: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/gustards-audalytic-hp70.978378/ He hasn't gotten back with final thoughts though his initial one's are - 'you can not find this quality for the price elsewhere''.

His set up:

 

[Deutschesfach]

I am the founder of the Head-Fi Audalytic AH 90 thread. I have my eyes on this model to front for great integrated that is a couple of years old. This new product has amazingly great stats. As soon as someone gets a listen please be in touch. I am very happy with the AH90 at the price point and the separates for this price are remarkable. I am only interested right now in the pre...but am available for discussion.