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Post by vcautokid on Oct 4, 2019 17:54:35 GMT -5
Topping has been doing very well lately. I was looking at their top line DAC for my front home editing system. Does everything I want and it did well on Audio Sciences measurements too. I frequent that sight allot. He is pretty darn thorough. I enjoy his sight.
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Post by cwt on Oct 5, 2019 5:40:09 GMT -5
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Post by mgbpuff on Oct 5, 2019 8:04:52 GMT -5
Whatever - HD-DVD was a disaster for me! CEO stands for Chief Embellishment Officer.
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Post by JNieves on Oct 5, 2019 8:19:02 GMT -5
He also puts the Topping above the Schiit Yggdrasil and PS Audio Directstream. So run out and buy a Topping, I'll pass...... I bought one, the D50 DAC. Sounds lovely, but so does my Schiit Bifrost and the XMC-1's DAC. Guess my ears aren't resolving enough to hear these differences.
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Post by cwt on Oct 5, 2019 8:34:35 GMT -5
Whatever - HD-DVD was a disaster for me! CEO stands for Chief Embellishment Officer. I got a lot of hddvd's for very little dosh and a Toshiba XE1 for a great price on runout ; it pays to wait
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Post by mgbpuff on Oct 5, 2019 9:02:01 GMT -5
Whatever - HD-DVD was a disaster for me! CEO stands for Chief Embellishment Officer. I got a lot of hddvd's for very little dosh and a Toshiba XE1 for a great price on runout ; it pays to wait Junkers always win out. You're in the race but you're riding an old mare!
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Post by visiter555 on Oct 5, 2019 20:59:19 GMT -5
A very interesting review and analysis. Most importantly it is verifiable and show what many people have been complaining about is justified.
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Post by brutiarti on Oct 5, 2019 23:56:03 GMT -5
I think that you are just trolling. The last thing that people complain about the XMC-1 is the sound quality. A very interesting review and analysis. Most importantly it is verifiable and show what many people have been complaining about is justified.
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Post by xyvyx on Oct 9, 2019 0:51:16 GMT -5
Amir's testing methods are far from perfect, but they're pretty consistent. When readers suggest he missed something or had a setting wrong, he'll usually give it another shot. He's not measuring speakers, he's mostly testing DACs and amps for their ability to re-create their input signals with minimal change. I see lots of ruffled feathers and people with hurt feelings, but little of substance to refute the measurements.
If you think Shiit sounds better, by all means, BUY IT. But it consistently measures poorly compared to many others across the price spectrum. Maybe it can handle difficult loads better than some of the cheap gear, but I haven't seen any evidence to prove that either. I feel I got suckered into a AudioGD dac, but after hearing and later buying both a Topping & an RME DAC.. yeah, they really DO sound better. And yes, they measure better too. Funny.
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Post by visiter555 on Oct 9, 2019 15:00:49 GMT -5
Not trolling, but an observation. I think that you should go back and read what I said and not what you think I said. I think that you are just trolling. The last thing that people complain about the XMC-1 is the sound quality. A very interesting review and analysis. Most importantly it is verifiable and show what many people have been complaining about is justified.
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