90SE puts the Topping on discretion! @Purité Audio

[JohnnyNG]

These 1-bit DACs have turned my 32-bit DAC into nothing more than a 2-bit DAC.

 

[restorer-john]

The only remarkable thing Topping could actually do is create and sell a remote that offers a halfway decent range and doesn't require a laser focus on the DAC.

That requires actual engineering prowess, or at least something called "common sense". Sadly, they possess neither attribute.

 

[JSmith]

I have a temperature controlled butter dish. It is amazing.

Nice... what kind of heatsink is on that baby and has the butter ever been chewy?

JSmith

 

[Purité Audio]

Beginning to wish I hadn’t mentioned the butter analogy.
Anyone ABX’d Butter and Margarine, no measurements just using your ears?
Keith

 

[smallcaps]

Beginning to wish I hadn’t mentioned the butter analogy.
Anyone ABX’d Butter and Margarine, no measurements just using your ears?
Keith

I did a blind test and chose margarine. I couldn't believe it wasn't butter.

 

[CapMan]

Most of us here want a transparent DAC, and most DACs are transparent.

"Chewy" and "buttery" are not defined and certainly not scientific. Can I get 3dB more butter? To me "soft highs" means rolled-off highs which is not nigh-fidelity, not desirable, and unlikely in any non-broken DAC.

What is a blind ABX test?

Audiophoolery

I'm sure Keith will reply just as soon as he can get his tongue out of his cheek

 

[Purité Audio]

Your pallet isn’t resolving enough!
Keith

 

[CapMan]

I did a blind test and chose margarine. I couldn't believe it wasn't butter.

Side track story - the Germans manufactured synthetic butter from coal during WW2 as a by product of making liquid fuel.

It has a very dark history which I will not dwell on here !

 

[pkane]

I did a blind test and chose margarine. I couldn't believe it wasn't butter.

Whoa! You did a blind test between butter and margarine using your ears only? I've got to try that... How do you dig it out of your ear later?

 

[sernikus]

The only remarkable thing Topping could actually do is create and sell a remote that offers a halfway decent range and doesn't require a laser focus on the DAC.

Hmm.... remote is bluetooth and IR... no need any focus on Dac... remote for d90iii too...

 

[BlackTalon]

Whoa! You did a blind test between butter and margarine using your ears only? I've got to try that... How do you dig it out of your ear later?

His ears are made from corn.

 

[JSmith]

corn

It's corn!
I can tell you all about it
I mean look at this thing
When I tried it with butter, everything changed!
It's corn!
A big lump with knobs
It has the juice
I can't imagine a more beautiful thing


JSmith

 

[misterdog]

it will enable me to write one of my exhaustive yet entertaining ‘Blogs’ in which after many hours comparing level matched and unsighted I can never hear any difference.

Will it be available here on ASR ? In installments ?


1bit at a time.