EDIT: I missed the reports of
96 kHz also having issues. So upsampling may not be a workaround anyway, unless there is some higher sample rate that does work without issues.
By far, the most common application for a desktop DAC is to listen to CD rate music. Everything else is an exception, not the rule. As I said, this must be fixed but the notion that the DX1 II is useless right now is absurd and out of control hyperbole. Just say it can't reliably play youtube video, and some high-res content and you would be OK.
I can neither agree with nor dispute what's globally common without statistics. However, I do respectfully disagree that complaints are hyperbole, as a buyer or prospective buyer's perspective greatly depends on their intended use. As a potential buyer who chooses not to buy, based on the bug reports, I judge it to be unfit for
my intended use and I emphasize
my, not anyone else's and hence why I decided not to buy. I use my DAC for gaming, PC and console, PS4/3 and whilst Windows can be worked around by upsampling, consoles AFAICT are fixed at 48 kHz. I also use it for watching Blu Ray and DVDs on Linux and console, which I believe are also 48 kHz, and also streaming video. Again, watching under Linux could be worked around by upsampling, maybe, albeit I've had some weird anomalies with my Linux upsampling experiments that I haven't resolved yet, but can't be worked around for console. Well, actually, PS3 can potentially be worked around with optical but I'm not clear from the bug reports whether the optical input is safe from the bugs or not or just hasn't been tested enough yet. I previously
queried this but there were no responses. I actually currently use optical but I was hoping to get rid of some of my optical cables and switch with a new DAC to get rid of clutter. Ideally I just want a single optical cable to cater to the PS3 and everything else can be USB. Out of the around 1000 FLAC music files I have, it's true most are 44.1 kHz but 131 are 48 kHz and 124 are 96 kHz. Unfortunately, my favorite music that I listen to the most fall in the latter two groups. I also would like a DAC to use with PS5, which DX1 II advertised as a feature. Currently I don't have good audio from the PS5 because they got rid of optical from the PS4/3 and only support UAC 1.0.
Basically, for
my use case, I judge the DX1 II to be a big downgrade right now rather than an upgrade from my old Audioengine D1 DAC that sure, has far fewer features but performs it's core function of being a DAC without significant issues. If I had bought the DX1 II unaware of the issues, I would have been upset. Luckily I discovered these forums. I've been commenting not to bash Topping but with some hope that they monitor these forums and take the feedback on board to improve their approach in future. If they do, that's great and I will happily show interest in their future products. If they don't, then at most I've wasted a bit of time commenting.
PS. I would also like to say I appreciate the community you've built here. I've found the info on these forums to be of great help, not just with this topic but others as well.
