Jimster480
Major Contributor
That makes no sense. ESS is just a company that makes DAC chips. They make tons of DAC chips, some of which are SOTA and others that are not especially with how performance has increased in the last years.Yeah, absolute great chip the NODE X is using. ESS Sabre.
Next thing I'll do is hook up two mono power amps and I'm happy
So I am not sure what this even has to do with the topic?
Why would you use a DAC that is 5x more with no audible performance difference at all? The NodeX won't be better than the Topping; in fact it might be worse.I was questioning myself why would you use topping e30 II instead of the node x!!! Well done.
DAC Chip doesn't determine performance as this site has shown so many times.
Their entire "conversation" makes literally 0 sense at all as the E30 II has already SOTA performance so NO OTHER DAC would offer any sonic benefit. Therefore it would need to be based around the additional features offered that someone needed/wanted in order to justify paying more.Why compare with a product that costs more than 5 times more than the E30 ll?