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Topping E70 Stereo DAC Review
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That was quick!
Quality is a work in progress.View attachment 248838
This is Toppings answer about quality in their website (see link). Construction?
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Quality for Topping is rather "Not found."
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They will be sold in pairs: each works half the time...
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It's like Samsung with phones and tablets. It works. You walk in the store, or click around a bit, and you there's a good chance you're going to come away with a Samsung. No-one's going to not buy one because the range is too large/confusing - nobody thinks like that. Most people aren't going to sit down and populate a spreadsheet with the entire range and figure out exactly which one is for them (which is what I do!). They're going to pick the one in their price range which looks the nicest, preferring perhaps a "brand new model". They all sound the same anyway (DACs and amps, that is).
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I went with Xiaomi... lmao.
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The AKM 4499EX uses two chips one for digital and one for analogue.
New Flagship DAC the AK4499EX to Debut at the IPS / HIGH END(R) munich2022 Show | Archives 2022 | News | About AKM | Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM)
Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) has developed a new flagship stereo D/A converter (DAC), the VELVET SOUND | VERITA(TM) AK4499EX.
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Looks like Topping made an E70V variant with the latest AKM chip. @WolfX-700 just measured the prototype. I think the regular E70 more than suffices though~
And honestly the E70V is more competition do the D90LE which seems odd to me in terms of product segmentation but oh well
www.l7audiolab.com
E70 $349.00 E70V $449.00 https://shenzhenaudio.com/search?type=product&q=E70
And honestly the E70V is more competition do the D90LE which seems odd to me in terms of product segmentation but oh well
Measurements of Topping E70 VELVET DAC - L7Audiolab
台式设备 随着"三小强"中SMSL和Gustard都推出了自己的4499EX解码器，拓品的研发总让我感觉是不是有点滞后？不过随着我拿到这台 Topping E70 VELVET 我打消了疑虑，拓品还是他家的老样子……
www.l7audiolab.com
E70 $349.00 E70V $449.00 https://shenzhenaudio.com/search?type=product&q=E70
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See we here a AKM-Hump? I could see it in the SMSL iteration as well.........Looks like Topping made an E70V variant with the latest AKM chip. @WolfX-700 just measured the prototype. I think the regular E70 more than suffices though, and if I'm not mistaken ESS E70 also has 'synchronous' mode, locking to the digital input with less tight DPLL which can help with stuttering etc connecting a jittery source.
And honestly the E70V is more competition do the D90LE which seems odd to me in terms of product segmentation but oh well
Measurements of Topping E70 VELVET DAC - L7Audiolab
台式设备 随着"三小强"中SMSL和Gustard都推出了自己的4499EX解码器，拓品的研发总让我感觉是不是有点滞后？不过随着我拿到这台 Topping E70 VELVET 我打消了疑虑，拓品还是他家的老样子……
E70 $349.00 E70V $449.00 https://shenzhenaudio.com/search?type=product&q=E70
Numberwag or Wordwang? lolI enjoy both good engineering and the audible differences that produces.
I spent a great deal of time rebuilding my Quad 989 electrostatic loudspeakers into bespoke steel frames in order to hear the last drop of difference. The downside being that they are the size of a door and will literally kill you if you touch them - 3kV kil ovolts.
But there is no difference, and I can't hear it - that's numberwang..
Is the dynamic range of 132dB using the XLR outputs and the 129dB using the RCA?
