I recently purchased a schiit modi 3, and swapped it with my existing Topping e30 (running filter 4) so thought I may add something to this thread. To my surprise the difference for me was quite noticeable. The start of Billie Eilish, Everything I wanted, on the E30 the repeating bass note is really strong and loud, quite fun. On the modi 3 it is way less loud, and also vocals sounded slightly clearer. Ymmv but it was a less subtle difference than I expected. Just to add, I am streaming from a pi3 digione hat over Roon with flac files. No idea which one I prefer to be honest, I like them both a lot for different reasons, but they do sound quite different to me.
