Seems like AK4118 is back. Massproduced and in stock:
AK4118AEQ | Audio Components | Products | Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM)
192kHz 24-bit DIR with 8:1 Selector, GPIO & DIT. The AK4118AEQ is a digital audio transceiver supporting 192kHz, 24-bit. The channel status decoder supports both consumer and professional modes.www.akm.comAK4118AEQ | Digi-Key Electronics
Order today, ships today. AK4118AEQ – Audio Audio Transceiver 8 Channel 48-LQFP (7x7) from Asahi Kasei Microdevices/AKM. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.www.digikey.com
Will Topping change back to this for coming products?
To cut a long story short, at an earlier stage Topping DAC's all used the AKM AK4118 s/pdif receiver chip, until these became unavailable, at which point they changed to Cirrus Logic CS8416 chips - and this proved to be problematic.
So now all Topping DAC's use the ONSemi LC89091 s/pdif chip, until the AK4118 becomes available again.
I just opened up my E30 II, and it sure looks like an AK4118AEQ in it, attached photos.
The Cirrus Logic CS8416 and ONSemi LC89091 look totally different, shapes, pins etc.
Picture of AK4118AEQ:
Inside my E30 II, delivered a few days ago.
For references, no issues of any kind thus far, using optical/toslink in.
XMOS chip is
XU208-128-TQ64-C10
marked u30870c10
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