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Schiity ToppJust imagine a DAC stack with those two brands. "Do you like my Schitt Topping?"
Schiity ToppJust imagine a DAC stack with those two brands. "Do you like my Schitt Topping?"
I have one of those....the Asgard 3 and the the D70. It is an awesome sounding combo. Except it is flipped upside down - Topping goes on the bottom cause that Schiit gets very hot lol.Just imagine a DAC stack with those two brands. "Do you like my Schitt Topping?"
Nope.Can it decode DSD?
I am, but it would be hard to justify the budget when the hypothesis is that no one will be able to tell the difference. Maybe one could run a couple tests with relatively inexpensive gear, but it wouldn’t be sustainable. Universities usually don’t have that type of equipment or dedicated spaces either (mine doesn’t), so someone could probably do a better job with a few acquaintances at home.We need a "branch" of ASR that does well-designed blind listening tests with a number of listeners to answer such questions.... I wonder if maybe some university psychology department or engineering-psych-human factors-music school interdisciplinary kind of thing would be interested in hosting such a research program? With cooperation of a local Audio Society and - why not?- a local world-class group of musicians like an important orchestra or respected string quartet...? Is there anyone present here on ASR that is on a university faculty? Anyone with ambition to try to put something together? The $peaker cable outfits would probably send in a squad of hitmen.....
It's an RJ45 socket, not a coil, but anyway I would guess that is a port for QC testing on the production line or maybe firmware installation.
Reference grade transparency!https://www.schiit.com/public/upload/PDF/Schiit DAC APx555 Standard Test Suite_ Modius.pdf
Their own AP555 measurements.
But it supports only up to 24/192 files and no DSD? This is a major drawback in comparison to Soncoz.
Most impressive part is the jitter with usb. Very clean!
For sure.I also was quite impressed by this. I thought their Unison was complete marketing nonsense, but when you see it performing so well in this device, just maybe there is some merit to it? In any case it's not hurting anything
I'm really surprised how low this thing's jitter is. They have really stepped it up. I really think this site has a lot to do with it too, but it would never be admitted.
Notice that IMD was not measured with USB, so possibly the Toslink SPDIF jitter had some bad influence on the IMD.imd isn't impressive enough and toslink and coax inputs don't have pleasing enough jitter