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I never produced a D10 Topkit using the AD8397!

Got my Mini-Audio/Ibasso D-10 today. Here are some pictures. Do the ibasso owners see any differences in the build except for the print? It sounds great

You have alps potentiometer (or fake alps), I have yellow potentiometer with A50K signature and other knob.

I dont think its fake. Mini audio is the ibasso brand for the chinese market. It came in original packing with warranty card for ibasso.

I meant that alps potentiometer can be fake, but I don't think so.

I accidentally cracked the optical connector, it still works but anyone was able to replace it?

Just ordered hiflights topkit for the D10. I have a pair of IE8 and Denon D5000. Any suggestions as to which opamps will be best for a combined use of these two headphones?

Any answers will be much appreciated.

Zai: I dont know, but you could send a mail to ibasso asking them for spare parts or for a warranty coverage.

After installing the Topkit, both phones will work well without changing any of the Topkit opamps.
Ron

yes, the topkit IS opamps, not sure why you bought the topkit and are asking what opamps you should use

gusp: I am new to op amp rolling. And thought that the op amp kit consisted of many different op amps. Thank you for clarifying that for me

I got the kit recommended by a friend without really knowing much about it.

@klekk & jamato8:
Ok, i'll contact iBasso for advice.

At work I use a different rig than at home.

I tried two different setups:

Foobar WASAPI -> Firewire -> Firewire 410 -> Optical -> d10 (headphone out) -> Gilmore Lite -> cd3000

Foobar WASAPI -> Firewire -> Firewire 410 (1/2 Output) -> Gilmore Lite -> cd3000

For a few days I listened to the first setup and was pretty pleased, after I finally got an adapter hooked up to the fw410 to use its outputs...

I found that the d10 as a DAC via optical fared worse than the fw410 as a DAC; it was like the bass wasn't as well rounded on the d10 and couldn't keep up. I could also hear more coloration with the fw410, especially apprent with extreme high frequencies (it kind of hurts) as a result of this. I would venture to say too that the detail was better with the fw410.

I do recognize that volume matching at that point gets difficult, but do you guys think that there's some flaw in my setups here or would this seem accurate?

You use the line out of the D10 instead of the headphone out when connected to an amp.

I did that too but stuck with the HP out due to Jamato's recommendation!