You must you mean that Ironically I presume ?
No.
Do you have Any Recommendations for Other sites with Equally Technically Savvy members
But with honest advice From the DAC Company representatives posting on them..
No, I'm not sure they exist.
I too was suprised by The tone of posts by some members, I guess Don't be suprised in future...
As you use this site for the second month you might slowly start to detect a difference between ASR and the rest of 'em. For example, go to head-fi and type "The E30 is dead sounding, without the airiness of the the Modi 3. I prefer the latter's rich bass and plankton" and they'll probably greet you as one of their own. You're entitled to your opinion right? Damn right. Try typing that here, though, and you're going to get "uh huh", ignored or perhaps even a "dude, wtf are you talking about?". That's because that sentence is a mixture of opinion and meaningless jargon, which therefore cannot be defended objectively with measurements or double blind comparisons. It's of no value to anyone considering a purchase.
So when someone types something like "I did several tests to compare the audio quality with a good vintage cd player unfortunately it does not hold up to comparison. The latter digests all musical genres with an extraordinary dynamics that the E30 dreams of." then it has a certain smell...and you can tell immediately that they did not, in fact, perform any meaningful test, and if they did, they either did it very badly or have a faulty E30 because to the extent that "extraordinary dynamics" has any meaning, they were not found to be wanting when Amir performed his tests. There's no way a recent, more-or-less state of the art audio DAC is getting out-performed by a 40 or 50 or however many year old CD player.
I think you have an axe to grind about Topping which is colouring your views here. I have to say, despite being a very happy E30 owner, what I've read about Topping's kit has made me think...well, they're certainly not guilty of over-testing their equipment, are they? I seem to have a lucky E30 which was built after the phase problem but before the spdif one! At least with this product my headphones are safe. I thought I was safe simply waiting for other people to be early adopters and find any flaws before I make a purchase (which is a sensible approach for any consumer product really) but your situation - where something is changed but insufficiently tested many months after initial release - shows that this is a little optimistic. The only thing to be done really is to thoroughly test all functionality upon purchase so that it can be returned as early as possible. But there's no reason to believe Topping are any worse in this regard than any other company. I will consider them for future purchases.
But I've seen nothing remotely dishonest about JohnYang1997's comments. I think you just don't like his bluntness. He suggested you return it. I suggested you return it. Why didn't you return it?
