🔷 Topping D10

ZeosPantera · September 3, 2019, 12:50am

This is the official thread for the Topping D10. This thread is for discussion and reviews.

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Reviews…

Towa · September 3, 2019, 4:57am

I love my D10, such a great little dac for not alot of money… currently have mine outputting via RCA to my darkvoice 336 and SPDIF to my Edifier S2000pro. works like a charm

Andrew_Davis · September 4, 2019, 8:28pm

Only 1 post? This is a great device, and probably the best value in DACs! A JDS Atom and a Topping D10 is a spectular level of performance for $170!!

M0N · September 4, 2019, 8:30pm

Yup, and if you want a warmer sound stack then swap the atom for a monolith liquid spark

LeDechaine · November 13, 2019, 8:25pm

I honestly believe they’d sell many many times more if it wasn’t ugly as fuck.

M0N · November 13, 2019, 8:26pm

Could be, but gets the job done I guess… Perhaps look into the smsl m100 or the new liquid spark dac

LeDechaine · November 13, 2019, 8:29pm

Or a little plastic rectangle to make the digits green/blue/whatever instead of, 70’s police radar orange

M0N · November 13, 2019, 8:31pm

Lol your right, this wouldn’t look out of place in a car scanner

Freyr · November 21, 2019, 5:28pm

A quick question for those that have this DAC.

If using it with a Windows 10 computer, did you install the driver from the Topping website, and does it work if set to 32bit in the Topping application?

Mine seems to become unresponsive if I set it to 32 bit in the application after the driver install, 32 bit worked fine with the builtin Win10 driver.

db_Cooper · November 21, 2019, 5:36pm

I haven’t tried 32 bit. 24/96 and that worked fine in both the Win10 and Topping drivers. In the end I removed the drivers as I use the unit pretty much to give the SPIDIF out.

M0N · November 21, 2019, 5:38pm

I would just avoid 32 bit as it can cause problems with some applications. There really isn’t a benefit to use it because most music is not 32 bit

db_Cooper · November 21, 2019, 5:38pm

and you can even roll the OP amp in it!

Freyr · November 21, 2019, 7:50pm

Ok, I’ll stick with 24bit.

Antpage2 · November 21, 2019, 9:08pm

Didnt this DAC come out a long time ago?

db_Cooper · November 21, 2019, 9:12pm

My only issue with it is that it’s not an AK based chipset as I prefer that.

Andrew_Davis · November 21, 2019, 10:08pm

Can you hear the difference between DAC chips? I’ve never done a proper AB test so take what I say with a huge grain of salt, but I can’t tell the difference between the quality DACs I’ve owned.

LeDechaine · November 21, 2019, 11:47pm

More or less march 2018 apparently.
Still 106dB SINAD

db_Cooper · November 22, 2019, 12:40am

In the way that you can hear difference between tubes or OP amps. I was going to throw cables in there as well but. In my limited experience I hear more more substance and A/B testing is not the best way to make that determination. For me it’s about the feeling, the way breathing feels different in a cool day with low humidity than it does if the humidity would rise but the temperature remained the same.

I’m trying to stay away from the usual descriptors.

Mr_Makua · February 3, 2020, 3:37am

Just picked one of these up to use at work. This is the last piece to my desktop setup. My chain will be MacBook Pro > CalDigit TS3 Plus USB Dock > Topping D10 > Monolith Liquid Spark > Audioquest Nighthawk Carbon. Does anybody use this with a Mac? Will I need to install any drivers or anything like that to make it go?

M0N · February 3, 2020, 3:41am

I don’t think you need to install any drivers for it to work correctly