Recent content by Lupin

You don't listen to a chipset. I'm daring to say you won't be able to tell these two DACs apart in a properly conducted double blind test.

Flagship... entry level... by what metric? just the price... In that case I'm more than willing to sell you a flagship Topping DX5 II for €2999, i mean it must be flagship with that price tag :D:p

Meh DAC sounded fine before I read this, and it still does sound fine to me after reading it :) I will only buy a new DAC when the D30 Pro dies.

Music is nothing more than an electric signal for a DAC. What “magical” part of that electric signal can not be measured?

The 9038Q2M doesn't have a sound. The implementation of the chip with the circuitry around it, if done improperly (or purposely), might/could have a "sound". You don't listen to the DAC chip, you listen to the output of a DAC which has a ton more going on than just the DAC chip. Again, when done...

Looks like an interesting new addition, actually something new feature (all inputs PEQ) instead of just a bit higher SINAD. Personally, i feel though that Topping should really rethink their naming scheme. Just slapping numbers and plusses behind an already existing model number doesn't really...

Well it's another Chord product with the same Chord issue; there's absolutely nothing that justifies the absurdly high price tag for this device. Although we all "secretly" know that this is targeted at the subjective audiophiles who's only metric for performance/sound quality is the cost of a...

tl;dr: Recordings are not perfect, and information is lost. You need components that adds distortion to "regain" that lost information and make it realistic again. :oops:

Nice review Shows again that DACs are a solved problem.

Because 12 is a bigger number than 1, that alone will sell this model. SMSL has to do something to stand out from the DAC crowd that gets larger every week (not in the least by themselves)

There is a large group of people who already have a perfectly fine fully transparent DAC and still buy a new one within a year just because the new one has 122 dB SINAD and their old one "only" has 120 dB SINAD. Plus, the consensus that newer automatically means better... some people are just...

Last time i checked we are still on planet earth... So sound is nothing more than an electric signal, electric signals can be measured. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that in IT it's accepted that data is an electric signal that can be measured, with video it is accepted that video...

Because of the Verbatim CD-R. Everyone knows that CD-R discs provide superior audio quality over regular CD's :oops:

Yes hearing differences is extremely easy as it is proven in multiple scientific papers that your ears and the brains connected to it are anything but reliable to perform this kind of tests. Ignoring these scientific facts doesn't suddenly make you right. Until those differences are heard while...

I own two Topping amps and both are running great since launch a couple of years ago.