@batvac2
No one is saying that they are pleased that a component doesn't measure well. What a good number of people here have said is that standard measurements tell you very little about how a component will sound. The only thing that matters is how it actually sounds. Nothing else matters. Period. End of story.
This is such an old theme in audio that it seems trivial to keep repeating. Cheap Japanese direct drive turntables measured better by standard measurements than did expensive belt drives. And with the help of the audio press then, tons of them were sold, and they sounded awful. Early solid state "measured" better than time-tested tubed electronics and the audio press of the day helped sell tons of these too. They sounded awful too. And even today, solid state measures better than tubes; digital measures better than analog, and on and on. We have NEVER developed measurements that tell us accurately what we want to know about a high end audio component and that is: how does it sound? IMO the most useful measurements made these days are for loudspeakers. Yet no speaker measurement yet devised can tell me what I really want to know about a speaker and that is: will it disappear? Yes, for all of these components we have to listen!
At the time of the measurement discussion I wrote this. There are some things worth emphasizing. Per the designer of the Musetec it is relatively easy for any trained electrical engineer to produce a DAC that measures very well. China has a lot of trained engineers, many more than we have. In choosing parts for his DACs he listens and chooses those that add to SQ as he hears it even if they cost in measurement stats. That's it. The very many here who have heard and admire the Musetec have come to agree that he has a refined musical sensitivity. Now that may be hard to come by, in China or anywhere. But as an engineer, a real engineer, he can produce this very musical component at a relatively low price relative to other very fine sounding DACs. That's what good engineers do. But you say that this approach "bugs" you. As I say in the post referred to, if you find that disturbing then perhaps this DAC is not for you.
You say your $900 Topping sounds fantastic. And we all know that Toppings measure well over at ASR. Then I have to wonder what brings you here. Giving what you write, you seem to be wasting this time writing when you can be enjoying your Topping. You haven't though told us to what other DAC you have compared your Topping, nor anything about the system it feeds into. So we have no context at all for your "fantastic" description. But you go on to write that you'd evidently like to do a listening test yourself to see if what has been described, designing for sound alone, is really possible. So perhaps you really don't believe that the Topping is the best of all possibilities for you. So you can relieve your anxieties by trying out a better DAC. Musetecs have done pretty well on the used market for there are so few of them there. So you wouldn't really be risking all that much by trying. Wait for one of the Shenzhenaudio sales.