Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
One advantage of buying the Topping new from Amazon is you can return it if you aren't impressed.

The Xiang Sheng that Grant recommends is excellent [although I do prefer the Topping a little] but there have been reliability issues with them. I have had 2 partially fail and other folks have had problems.

I've had the Jolida as well, it was 'OK' but I can't say it was much more than that, imo. Much more transparency is to be had.

But as Jeff says, it all depends what sort of sound you are after.
I agree with Jerry about the Topping, if you buy it and don't like it return it.

Nothing to loose, and you get to hear it in your own system.

I still have my Jolida FX Glass DAC MkI and find it very good. Tube rolling has been fun, Tung Sol in my system sounded a bit dull, Siemens, Telefunken, Harma 7025 Cryo, Sovtek Long Plates tried, but by far the best were some NOS 80's Chinese military valves, still in place.

Gary