As noted, they are normally a seller of audio products. In this case however, this model is made exclusively for them and hence the reason I put their name in the review header.What is Aoshida? Another brand?
I think its wonderful that this dacs seems to be so good , for such a low price. I havent bought one though, because they still have lossy blutooth inputs which is something I dont understand - I would want a good implementation of AirPlay instead.
If such a unit below 150 dollar came out on the market with electrical digital outputs I would buy one. But the digital preamp quality have to be better than a Yamaha wxc50 .
It would be a very neat digital solution with Apple lossless , together with 83xx monitors from Genelec.
Thanks for your suggestion.Dude just get yourself an Apple TV and HDMI-> SPDIF converter and hook it to your existing system.
This is what I got:
FiiO BTA 30 Pro
BT in/out- so I can listen to movies at night with headphones, or my spouse can play music via AAC from her phone through my gigantic beer-fridge sized sound system.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Apple TV does samplerate conversion for everything to 48 kHz , its unacceptable and make the sound worse from Apple lossless ( I have tried it ) . BT is also an inferior protocol thats really not hifi.
I want something that sounds better than my Yamaha wxc50 , that can do airplay with volumeregulation in digital domain and digital outputs . At first I thought the topping M50 would be a good choice, but apparently this streamer dont have a digital volume regulation.
My reference gear is my Mac laptop and a good DDC that can do this in a good way, I want something similar in a smaller, neater case with good sound quality. Maybe there is no such a thing on the market?
For that price I would blindly buy it and immediately rule out other Topping options I've in mind, plus it would be a big step forward bringing the best performance to even more people, but I think it's unrealistic to expect that yet (unless SMSL wanted to break the market).
I need explicit permission to do this kind of thing.Would be great if you would take a photo with the top off, so we can make sense of the real version you measured incase the internals are silently changed in future and the measurements can’t be replicated. lately I have seen this happen often with many companies.
One need to use auto-translate... that went well;you can enable subs
Good question. Hard to tell from below but they don't differentiate between 6.3mm and 4.4mm@amirm the 4.4mm Pentaconn is just for convenience ? (so not balanced)
Correct.How is the channel balance? Or is it digital hence, no need to test?
The amp you speak of is currently HALF PRICE at monoprice UK. Probably the same offer worldwide. £184. What a bargain!Looks like they've gotten THX 888 amp performance (like in my SMSL SP400) but without THX fee required
This is something significant
And bad news for THX
The amp you speak of is currently HALF PRICE at monoprice UK. Probably the same offer worldwide. £184. What a bargain!
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