New Topping D90SE DAC

arafiq753 posts 

Said:
"I owned a Topping D90 a couple of years ago. Neutral, clear, precise, sterile, boring! I bought it based on the glowing reviews by the likes of ASR and really tried to like it. Eventually sold it to a friend who is still enjoying it."


With Solid State Amps and Harbeths, no wonder you found it boring! ---

I like my D50s. I power it with 5V battery pack and backgroud is very dark. I like the sound quality of D50s.

I owned many dacs, from audio note , Lampizator, metrum acoustics and chord. Recently I ordered a topping pre90 and the toppingd90se , to go with my Coda continuum n8 power amplifier (speakers Dynaudio Heritage special). I am seriously impressed by this dac, which is also the cheapest dac I owned sofar. The metrum acoustics onyx dac, had perhaps a slight better sound staging, but as far as details and dynamics this toppingd90 se is just the next level. Also compared it with the dac in my Accuphase dp430 , it just sounds better. Very impressed with topping sofar. Greetings from Holland. 

So have now spent a full month living with the new topping D90SE. 

It truly a step above all other DACS i have owned.  Zero noise, clear details and you can hear every detail of the voice and the decays of the instruments.

Sounds great on jazz and other recordings that are well done. 

The biggest difference has always been the quality of the recording and the D90SE will expose that.  It doesn't cover up bad recordings,  that tells me it's not coloring the sound. 

Vanson1 . With what dacs did you compare it?