mérésekkel is van kimutatható különbség a különböző kábelek között. A Youtube-os Retrotech Hungary csatorna szintén foglalkozott a kérdéssel. On the wrong setup Arya will sound cold and lifeless, it can be even forward and cramped with the wrong source. D70 is brightening the day a little bit for them, it adds some midrange magic, a weightier tone, a little bit of substance and opens up the window for a wider soundstage and for a deeper sound. The D70s features full MQA-decoding, delivering the best possible version of your music. MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) files contain the full, uncompressed information of the original master recordings. MP3 files, on the other hand, contain just 10% of the original information. That’s one-tenth of the nuance, depth, and richness that the artist intended for you to hear. Bit-perfect audio transfer

I’m hearing bass notes reaching sub-bass territory easily, not only with my electronica, but even with regular jazz or dark folk music. Its powerful down there, it is clean and it will show layers and sub-layers of information. It’s hard slamming all right, exactly as D90 is, just a little more focused in the mid-bass section. About that, D70S is extremely potent in the mid-bass, it sometimes elevates that region, it is a bit fuller than D90 in here and a lot fuller sounding than regular ESS-Sabre DACs. Even my reference Element X don’t have as much mid-bass presence all over my tunes. D70S is a fun and engaging DAC, it puts a higher emphasis on the act of music listening, than on analyzing every second of it. Számomra a rendszerem egyensúlyához szükség van a kiegészítőkre, az Entreq kábelre, és a Core Audio bridge-re, ez a három együtt egy nagyon jó zenei kifejező készségű kombinációt alkot, egy picit az említett hibákkal együtt. Ugyanakkor, ezekkel együtt is, a hangja csak nyomokban tartalmazza az ismert digitális keménységet, néha egy-egy hangon észre lehet venni, amikor bevillan, de amúgy egy nagyon hosszan hallgatható, élményszerű hang. I am listening to it for about 2 weeks and it stayed powered On all this time to burn-in all those capacitors and warm-up the rest of the circuitry. Végül megtaláltam a Bluetooth ideális használati módját. A TV-nk képes Bluetooth-on kapcsolódni külső hangeszközhöz, ezt eredetileg egy soundbar-hoz találták ki. A D70S-hez is szó nélkül kapcsolódik, és kész a házimozi – sztereoban.The accessories are modest like they usually are with DACs, you get a USB-A to USB-B cable, a remote, an AC cable, and a Bluetooth antenna along with the manual. Measuring 25x19x5cm, the D70s is by no means a small device. It weighs about 2 kilograms so it is heavy as well. These numbers do not matter at all to me as it is a desktop DAC and I don’t plan to travel with it.. yet. In all honesty, I don’t think one is better and one is worse. It really depends on your listening habits, on your setup and on what sound you really want to achieve. If you don’t have funds for a serious R2R unit, then it is quite easy: get the D70S and be done with it. If you want a more reference tuning that has more of everything without leaning too much to any camp, then D90 better fits that description. If Topping would ever come up with a D90S, I urge them retaining the 5V output of the D70S, for me that’s a big plus, as a dedicated preamp wouldn’t be needed with such a unit if you’re using bookshelf speakers.

Midrange, Ah! The magic velvety midrange. It always grabbed my attention with a slight warmish tint. D70 is impressive mostly in this region, no matter the music you will be listening to, it will always sound natural, having a very good flow. D70 is somehow bonding all the notes together and caries all those to the listener in a very non-Delta/Sigma kind of way. The Topping D70s offers a couple of PCM filters to fine-tune the signature of the DAC. There are 6 filters in total. Mode 1 to 6. Mode 3 is the default filter. I honestly do not dwell on these as they tend to do more harm than good, however, I liked the filter mode 4. I will talk about it in the sound section. There are couple more subsections in the menu, the majority of them being related to the IIS interface. Another great feature of the D70s is the ability to auto-standby. I wish the SMSL SU-9 had this feature too. It is just so practical. Lastly, you have the option to factory reset the device if a need arises for such a measure. Asahi Kasei recommends using their own low noise S/PDIF receiver with their digital to analog converters, so it was natural using the AK4118 that takes care of all its digital inputs except for I2S and USB. On some older recordings it sounds as it might be hiding a small vacuum-tube somewhere inside, people that appreciate the soul of the recordings and their technical aspect will surely appreciate the D70 performance. All in all, D70 is having a heavier and a meatier tone than regular Delta/Sigma DACs.Both are nice quality units, Element X is wider, deeper and taller, it is much heavier as well. This does not come as a surprise since Element X besides being a DAC, it is also a balanced headphone amplifier, a digital player (via a smartphone App) and a wireless streamer with some impressive networking capabilities. It is doing a lot more and as such is costing a lot more. Element X is offering 4.4 Vrms on the balanced output, D70 is offering 4 Vrms. Benchmark HPA4 has 2 XLR inputs and the power of any input can be increased or decreased individually (Love this feature a lot!) so both were volume matched in no time, with a press on the HPA4 touch-screen I would choose one or another. To measure and perfectly match both I also needed a MiniDSP EARS system.

The D70s features full MQA-decoding, delivering the best possible version of your music. MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) files contain the full, uncompressed information of the original master recordings. MP3 files, on the other hand, contain just 10% of the original information. That’s one-tenth of the nuance, depth, and richness that the artist intended for you to hear. I tested it in a high-end loudspeaker setup and also in a headphone setup. When I used it in the living room, I’ve tried it as a DAC + Pre unit and then only as a DAC, leaving the preamp duties to the Topping Pre90 or to a Benchmark HPA4. I’ve used a Keces S300 power amplifier, that was driving a pair of KEF Reference 3. Since coaxial and optical inputs are sharing the exact same decoding chip, coaxial should really sound the same.Unless my memory is hazy, the D70 produces the best measured performance of any Topping DAC. So if you are a fan the brand and want the best DAC in their product line, the D70 is it. Measurements can be helping finding out design faults, otherwise are useless. A difference between XU-208 and 216 is minimal. It can be a small inherent jitter in 208, but is very easy to avoid it, designers had a time to learn how to do it. Aztán megérkezett a D70S – kölcsönbe – és a Feleségem Őnagysága ( ez most épp egy pozitív jelző ) rátalált - a saját zenéire. Eddig is hallgatott zenét, iPhone-ról, Apple Music-on, gyűjtögette a kedvenceit, amik a telefonon meg az ahhoz csatlakoztatott fülhallgatóin – mondjuk így – szóltak ahogy szóltak. Mikor a D70S landolt a polcon, megmutattam Erikának, hogy miképp lehet Bluetooth-on keresztül rácsatlakozni a DAC-ra, s onnan kezdve lejátszani a saját zenei gyűjteményét a nagy hifi rendszeren. Azt a földöntúli boldogságot!!! „Úristen, Gábor, KELL nekünk egy ilyen!” Hátsó gondolataimban rögtön bevillant, hogy persze, aztán majd hallgathatom a Zucchero-t meg az állandóan elviselhetetlenül torz Coldplay-t, de hát a másiknak is hagyni kell a saját boldogságát. Az efféle megjegyzések nem szoktak nálam pénztárca-nyitogató hajlandósággá válni csak úgy, szíre-szóra, viszont miután rászántam egy hajnali kettőig tartó délutánt a Toppinggal való ismerkedésre, elkezdtem én is hajlani erre a végkövetkeztetésre. A nők audiofil zsenialitása ( anélkül hogy ők maguk egyáltalán audiofilnek volnának mondhatók ) abban áll, hogy egyetlen mondatban, két perc zenehallgatás alatt kimondják azt a verdiktet, amihez nekünk napok vagy hetek, száz szám lejátszása kell, különböző kombinációkban. Végül összefoglaljuk a véleményünket húsz-harminc mondatban, aminek a sommás lényege az az egy mondat, amit ők 2 perc alatt leszűrtek. Fantasztikus. The AKM AK4118 is a digital audio transceiver that supports coaxial, optical, and AES signals. Supporting up to 24bit/192kHz, it achieves the lowest jitter of any S/PDIF receiver currently on the market. Product highlights