If I didn't already have an A90, I would buy this. It adds a lot of features at essentially the same level of performance. And to do so in a discrete design is an admirable engineering feat.
Topping could list the input impedance in the specifications. Ink must be expensive.
Quite honestly it's enough of a flaw for me to be a hard pass. I have enough of a hard time keeping track of remotes for equipment that I actually want to use remotely, I don't ever want to have to search on my already cluttered desk for a poorly labeled remote to operate a device that is just there at arms length.
Less point of failure, cleaner look and you can easily change Remote. Dont see point of failure since wolume control also is good this time.
Perfection if you are an 50k$ analyser, unfortunately you are human thus audibility limit was achieved decades ago. "Sinad race" never had any real value to begin with, like fiat money.
Yes... since 1990
Why exactly? I can see the volume control as valuable, but it will sound no different to Topping cheapest amp, thus if your goal is pure sound quality the value is actually pretty terrible.
If I had to rate it it would be lower than A90 since it has both less usability (gain change only possible by remote) and lower value (you can get another whole audibly perfect amp for the price difference)
Wrong. No clue if you would consider Ukraine as "west" but flux labs offers stepped relay volume control, more power and also discrete design at 100$ less.
Do you mean the FA-12S ? Not sure if it is fully balanced like its' higher end brethren?
The 500 $ one is not balanced. And after shipping, tax, import fees most western countries will be looking at a 650-700$ price tag
Magni 3+ is full discrete for 99$. Please people need to get some grip on reality.
Would like to see deticated DSP unit that goes in Between D30pro and PC or other digital source. Digital inputs and digital outputs. Multiple custom profiles.@JohnYang1997 Still (impatiently) waiting for DSP!
Not going to get into a flame war here. But it's obvious even to a layperson like me that it is much harder to design and engineer the A90 Discrete than the Magni 3+. No comparison.
or better still Asgard 3. I have both Asgard 3 and Magni 3+ and I must say the Asgard's sound is better though it is @199.
Fortunately we hear the waveform at the output of the device, and not how much the designer was sweating when making it.
The Flux FA-12, which Amir considered expensive, is the same price as this A90D. Both cost £600 in the UK and taxes are the same from Ukraine or China. Aoshida have now listed the A90D in their UK eBay store. Comes on a slow boat ...
