The Topping P50 is incredible
Which means believing that the better measuring item WILL sound better applies too huh? Or that if it measures the same it CAN'T possilbly sound different....???ala julian Hirsch of decades ago..... WOW....Or just to audiophiles?YES! You literally can never trust your ears in sighted comparisons, because...you cannot disconnect your ears from your lyin brain
I think one of the most enlightening things about ASR are the discussions of how we perceive audio in the Pyschoacoustics: Science of how we hear section. Some of the world's experts like Ethan Winer and J.J. Johnston post there, along with a lot of other very knowledgeable people.
A 5 minute video clip that for me explains it all is from a 2009 "Audio Myths" video on Youtube. If you watch from about 1:00 to about 6:00 you will hear J.J. Johnston explain why sighted audio comparisons (when you know what you are listening to) never work. Understanding this explains a whole lot about why perceptions often do not match objective reality.
Just like saying "its just an engine"....lolSorry, but
it's just a power supply.
Just like saying "its just an engine"....lol
Which means believing that the better measuring item WILL sound better applies too huh?
Or that if it measures the same it CAN'T possibly sound different....???ala julian Hirsch of decades ago..... WOW....Or just to audiophiles?
There is fresh new version (5.0.0) of TOPPING USB driver
https://www.tpdz.net/newsinfo/474829.html
Haven't tried looking inside ToppingUsbAudio.inf:This is not new it the same driver as of 2019.
"New driver" - Topping_UsbAudio_v5.0.0_setup.exe. All readme, of unknown origin, are not its constituent parts.@Voysya with the 'new driver' the readme files says in plain text, "Instruction£º 2019.12.04
When, before installing a new version of the driver, you memorize that it is necessary to uninstall the previous version, there will be nothing damn confusing.During installation of the 'new driver' it calls itself both version 5.00 and version 4.86. Damn confusing isn't it?
If your main goal is indeed to install version 5.0.0 released actually in 2020, then I have named the necessary actions. If you just want to grumble about some Topping inconsistencies - I'm not interested.That is not part of the official Topping instructions that accompany the driver, so maybe that little bit of advice is actually 'from unknown origin'? The driver setup.exe has a 'preinstallation' phase, which one would hope is some kind of 'driver cleaner' i.e cleans out the previous installation.
Sure, it will work fine. But the driver lets you play more specialized files like DSD as well as lossless high res software like Foobar that will not work well without it.So what does the driver do? Will windows 10 recognize the DAC without it?
Can't be bothered; everything worksThere is no reason not to use the latest driver version...even if the readme is a bit dated.