Hello. Total newcomer to this board. First post. The Topping e30 has arrived. Not bad in less than 5 days from China. Initial impression right out of the box via a quality Radio Paradise feed is its clear and insightful. Appears at this premature early juncture to be super linear across the sound spectrum, top to bottom with almost
no midrange or bass emphasis.
Hopefully the mid and deep bass will improve. Right out of the box it is most certainly not a warm sounding unit at all, crystal clear in fact. Whether that makes long term listenability and ownership a problem, only time will tell. My system skews warm so this may work great...or not.
It also has 6 selectable filters.....but we are out of AAA batteries for the remote in quarantined ny so i can't test those out, and don't know what setting its on now....
Will try it with audivarna and my media and update soon....
FYI using it powered by usb on my CPU, with data via Entry level AQ Green USB Cord, and long runs of inexpensive "KNU KONCEPTZ: IC cables to my system on the other side of a small room.
So lots of burn in and experimentation to follow such:
- Powered via a battery or wall wart of IFI type PS outside of cpu chain
- Switch the long run of Analog IC to long run of usb from computer to dac (doubt this will improve anything)
- Different Filters
- Check and see if i have any DSD media