I contacted the sales support of Topping on Taobao, which kindly shared the below info.
The model I tested at the CanJam in Shanghai was a pre-build unit and they are still making the final tweakings/debugging.
So far the PROVISIONAL specs are as per the following.
Output: Single ended 6.35+3.5, Balanced 2.5, RCA(No amplification, when you turn off A50, input will output to this output in order to cooperate with other amplifier or devices) Volume: Electronic control, there will be no problem of imbalance of L & R channel when low volume. Gain: Selectable 0dB / 9dB
To describe the improvements we must have a reference, a milestone.....
Price was not disclosed to me, but as I reference I can tell you that the D50 in China costs CNY 1'299 (about USD 190).
All the info that I was given are copy and paste in italic font on my previous post.
I was just chatting online with their seller and that's what he/she was given to share.
Sorry guys.
You are absolutely right, Faber65, you certainly need a reference to judge anything by. I am just curious on what Topping may have changed from the D50.
I think I have interesting news, because I found what seems to be a great external power supply option:
Last weekend at the CanJam in Shanghai, I had the opportunity to test the D50, together with the new siblings A50 and P50 (coming soon).
I carried with me my beloved MrSpeakers Aeon Flow C and I must say that I was positively impressed about the SQ for the money.
I know that SQ is a very personal thing and IMHO the guys at Topping did another pretty damn good job.
Probably the new P50 Power Linear Supply unit is what many of us were looking for.
Removing the relay could be a tweak worth considering, I just finished doing it and tried everything, the only time it ever pops is when turning on/off. The UDA38 has a pop whenever stopping native DSD playback but the D50 doesnt... it seems really excessive to add a relay just for this one small pop.
Most would be very skeptical of this idea unless they already think that removing a relay from the signal path could help a tiny bit, if you believe it might and are confident with smd soldering id recommend it.
I'm interested in removing the relay as well. How would one connect the wiring after the relay is removed? Do you have any pictures?
(*sorry for bringing up an older posts)
Some of the pops are caused by software to play the music or the firmware of the hardware. In such cases, removing the relay in the machine will not help.
I'm interested in removing the relay as well. How would one connect the wiring after the relay is removed? Do you have any pictures?
(*sorry for bringing up an older posts)
The left and right inputs to relay are marked on the pic, after removing it I connected a wire from those PCB pads directly to the RCA pin.
better yet would be to connect a wire from the little test pads marked with yellow arrows.
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