Topping DM7 8-Channel DAC Review

[run51]

Hello
can you tell me which linux ARM64 players(single board computer) are compatible for multichannel playback
thanks .other than roon and audirvana

Thank you

 

[TonioRoffo]

*deleted* - answer was already in the thread.

 

[TonioRoffo]

I'll have to repost my question. I saw in the thread that multichannel WAVs play back perfectly via android to the DM7. Did anyone try to do internal decoding of dolby/dts with the shield and output it over USB to a DM7?

 

[dartinbout]

I'll have to repost my question. I saw in the thread that multichannel WAVs play back perfectly via android to the DM7. Did anyone try to do internal decoding of dolby/dts with the shield and output it over USB to a DM7?

I can report that multichannel MKV, DSF, Flac, WAV and DFF files will play from an android Samsung tablet, using varied applications (VLC and Foobar 2k). I truly love the DM7. Except for some really ridiculously crazy "thick" PCM and DSD\DFF files (above DSD128 or PCM 192), it handles everything.

 

[jeffaegrim]

Reviving the thread because I found a DM7 to try out and wanted to briefly return to the question of channel mapping on the Topping when the number of channels isn’t 5.1. I plan to use EQAPO at first.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I don’t have a center channel and don’t plan on getting one anytime soon, but I have two subs. This means that I’d either use L/R in Stereo with two subs (2.2) for music or L/R + rears with two subs (4.2) for movies. I guess my question is banal, but - how well does this constellation work?

I’ll find out myself soon enough in any case and will report back with my experience

 

[himey]

Reviving the thread because I found a DM7 to try out and wanted to briefly return to the question of channel mapping on the Topping when the number of channels isn’t 5.1. I plan to use EQAPO at first.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I don’t have a center channel and don’t plan on getting one anytime soon, but I have two subs. This means that I’d either use L/R in Stereo with two subs (2.2) for music or L/R + rears with two subs (4.2) for movies. I guess my question is banal, but - how well does this constellation work?

I’ll find out myself soon enough in any case and will report back with my experience

I don't own this particular device, but I do manipulate channel layouts, and in Windows, Foobar2000 is the only app I have working with multiple devices and setups. Just add the Matrix Mixer component and WASAPI component. JRiver works too, but I switched devices and couldn't figure out the mapping. It will probably work but I gave up on it and just use Foobar when I need to map decoded Atmos PCM files.

 

[boxerfan88]

I am using foobar2000 with DM7 (ASIO).

foobar2000 ASIO configuration allows you to remap whichever foobar channel to whichever DM7 port. Very flexible.

Mine is mapped L=>1 R=>2 C=>3 C=>4

(My foobar C-channel is actually used for mono subwoofer processing due to fb64 mixer limitations.)

 

[jeffaegrim]

Cool stuff, very encouraging, thanks! I also just re-read the whole thread and man, we sure are easily led astray in our discussions sometimes. Informative as usual nonetheless, just a bit more noise filtering needed for this one

 

[boxerfan88]

For reference ... below is the screenshot of foobar2000 ASIO configuration page that allows you to map fb64 channels to DM7 outputs.