yesIs the heat generated the same using either power supply?
yesIs the heat generated the same using either power supply?
Remote controllers made in China, not just Topping, have a narrow operating range and cannot be said to be very sensitive remote controllers.The remote of this gear is a mess. I love my E30, but you have to target the remote directly to the device, no excuses. It is anniying. Are all Topping devices act the same?
Yeah not all DACs have this option I'm afraid :/I recently purchased an E30 II but discovered in Windows Sound settings that there is no option for channel balance like there was on my old DAC.
It's the receiver (on the topping face) which is the problem, not the topping remote. I use the E30 remote to control my own IR receiver and I can point the remote just about anywhere in the room and the light bounces its way into my receiver just fine.Remote controllers made in China, not just Topping, have a narrow operating range and cannot be said to be very sensitive remote controllers.
Normally, you can think of the range of +-30 degrees from the distance of 3m as the operating limit.
That is crazy isn't it, I always had thought it was just an inherent part of the Windows operating system, and therefore not related to the DAC at all, but obviously it is indeed related to the DAC.Yeah not all DACs have this option I'm afraid :/
DACs have different implementations of the USB mixer interface. Some DACs have indepedent volume controls for each channel, others have only one common volume for all channels or they don't implement the mixer interface at all. Drivers can also implement features that are not present in hardware, but I suppose reference drivers just reflect the hardware mixer. Equalizer APO is one way to add balance control when the hardware doesn't have it.That is crazy isn't it, I always had thought it was just an inherent part of the Windows operating system, and therefore not related to the DAC at all, but obviously it is indeed related to the DAC.
I wonder if that setting is exposed here so that you can enable it:I recently purchased an E30 II but discovered in Windows Sound settings that there is no option for channel balance like there was on my old DAC. I installed the Topping driver but there is still no option for balance. @JohnYang1997 Is this addressable via firmware or driver? If so could you add it please? My left ear is not as good as my right and this is unbearable for me without balance.
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Yep, indeed, EqualiserAPO can do that for you if your DAC can't. Very good free program.DACs have different implementations of the USB mixer interface. Some DACs have indepedent volume controls for each channel, others have only one common volume for all channels or they don't implement the mixer interface at all. Drivers can also implement features that are not present in hardware, but I suppose reference drivers just reflect the hardware mixer. Equalizer APO is one way to add balance control when the hardware doesn't have it.
Shouldn't affect SQ at all! It's great softwareI guess the beauty of this is it works on Windows 7 and doesn't reduce audio quality so much (since I had to lower the volume of the right channel to compensate).
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Substantially higher than that. -97 dB may not even exceed your noise floor.Should I worry about the high jitter through the optical-in ? The measurements show that the jitter through optical-in stays below -97 dB. At what dB is jitter audible ?
You'd have to go for something ESS-based (the internal ASRC does a pretty good job cleaning up jitter)... and pray that both U3 and G6 have clean enough outputs to not require an adjustment of DPLL bandwidth. If in doubt, SMSL DACs seem to feature that on a regular basis, including the SU-6. Their D-6 also does not have isssues with SPDIF jitter levels despite using an AK4493.Are there any similar performing DACs in the same price range without the optical-in jitter problems ?
You'd have to go for something ESS-based (the internal ASRC does a pretty good job cleaning up jitter)... and pray that both U3 and G6 have clean enough outputs to not require an adjustment of DPLL bandwidth. If in doubt, SMSL DACs seem to feature that on a regular basis, including the SU-6. Their D-6 also does not have isssues with SPDIF jitter levels despite using an AK4493.