Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
Nice AK4493 chip in that E30 which I think was developed to give a type of R2R sound and I think it uses the same XU208 XMOS USB chip that I use in the Duok DDC. It gets great reviews and I have no doubt it sounds great maybe even better with an LPS.

I should really make an effort and pop up to you and bring my digital set up and we could have a fun bake-off and you can get to try an LPS and DDC hooked put to your DAC and maybe hear the difference.

I will get in touch soon Martin and maybe we can arrange a date?
Yes we should do that, I have not tried one of these DDC things - I'm afraid I am far too sceptical to go to the effort to buy one to try out. I've had a listen to systems using them but not done any comparisons. I have an LPS I could use for the DAC but I have just not felt the need to experiment since it all sounds so good anyway.

I do have another DAC (Soncoz) that uses LPS (two of them in fact) but to me it sounds identical to the Topping and the Topping looks cuter so I left that in the system.