Just got a Topping D90SE in the mail from Apos. I ordered it on 12/3 and it showed up here in Illinois on 12/9. Not bad for such a long journey!
My Node 2i is connected to the Topping DAC over coax. Then RCAs out to my preamp. The Node is set to MQA external DAC, which locks in the output level at fixed. With TIDAL, I can set audio quality to Master or HiFi.
When an MQA track comes on, the Topping says MQA and then 44.1kHz. On other songs on TIDAL it will jump to MQA 96kHz. If I change the sound to HiFi, which is lossless FLAC, the display shows PCM 44.1kHz. Does it look like everything is set up properly? Seems like all is working well, but I am rather new to streaming.
And I am not used to so many settings! For example, my old Schiit Audio DAC had two buttons- power and input- compared to the Topping with 13 settings.
Just want to make sure I didn't miss something. For example one time my stereo sounded like garbage. Turned out, after a power outage, the Node had reverted back to mono instead of stereo.
For what it's worth, the output is set to 4 volts and I am using filter 3 (default).
-Yeah, I know MQA is controversial, but I'm at least going to give it a try-