Grab a glass of wine, lean back and continue reading as our detailed D70 DAC review is incoming shortly. To my surprise, a new version of the E70 DAC was around the corner using AKM’s newest flagship instead of an older ESS 9028pro DAC from the standard E70. These elements were considered; by a team of engineers that integrated the flagship DAC chips, AK4499EX + AK4191 from AKM, into the E70 Velvet's circuitry.

TOPPING has announced numerous superior DACs, including the D series, and E series, all of which play very well and get many high-praised! The only possible option is to use the ubiquitous USB connection between the Euphony equipment and the E70 V.The E70 Velvet expands on its predecessors' strengths while retaining all its positive qualities to raise the bar for audio performance. The mids are very accurate but instruments sound fast and dont feel hazy or bland sounding like I’ve heard on older AKM designs. It also hosts an XMOS XU316 USB processor that allows you to play Hi-Res files and supports decoding up to 32-bit/768kHz PCM and Native DSD512 audio signals. Damage due to user negligence, accidents, disassembly, waterlog, misuse, abuse, alterations or vandalism.

On the wrong setup Arya will sound cold and lifeless, it can be even forward and cramped with the wrong source. D70 is a fully balanced DAC, so it is normally to have an XLR balanced out and a single ended RCA out. Which is why I exclusively use the Topping stack now when I need to do listening via my iPad or Macbook. The upper mids are laser accurate and I don’t think it adds anything extra to the upper mids and stays neutral in tone. The day topping fixes DNLA, TIDAL connect, Apple lossless and Qobus and a bug-free interface for all this, it would be much more interesting.In the E70, 4 channels are connected in parallel as one channel, achieving incredible power performance and sound quality. How I missed that, I'm not completely sure, and whether Topping had some advance warning that MQA as such might be going away soon is an unknown. This sounds more like a really good(if not better) ESS DAC when it comes to speed and sharpness from my specific E70V unit. Noon by Infected Mushroom sounded very punchy, it slammed quite hard, especially with the Quad Era-1 headphones.

And that Euphony had gotten a couple of the new Topping E70 Velvet DACs that incorporated the newest generation of chips from Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM).If you are unsure whether your location is considered a remote area, we recommend contacting us to confirm.

PCM to display on the unit's front panel; after an hour of consternation and failure, I started digging online and discovered that the E70 V is not, in fact, MQA enabled. Listening to Moonlight 3rd Movement (Presto Agitato) in Hi-Res by Yundi revealed an incredibly black and noiseless background.If I have to explain one more time why my studio monitors don't come with bluetooth input, I'm going to start a charity. This is a review and detailed measurements of the Topping BC3 Bluetooth receiver and headphone amplifier.