Topping D30Pro Technical Review (Balanced DAC)
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- This is a detailed technical review of Topping D3Pro DAC. It is a balanced USB DAC with included power supply.
See the text review and discussion on Audio Science Review: www.audioscien...
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What you are doing for the industry, to challenge manufacturers in improving products on a scientific basis, is PRICELESS, and ultimately increases the possibility for all of us to enjoy music as an art. That is why you deserve the highest possible respect, good luck for youtube channel, i'm a subscriber!
Ah, what great compliments! Much appreciated.
Welcome to TH-cam, Amir. I am an electronic technician, audiophile and singer. I have been following your great work online. I am subscribed to your channel.
Thank you Ronnie. It is always great to have other technical people double checking what I do. :)
This is going to be HUGE!!!! Thanks for making this video Amir, and welcome to TH-cam! Time to spread the word on the interwebs...
Thank you. I watch a ton of youtube videos myself so thought I should contribute as well.
The Maestro himself! It is such a pleasure to finally see you. The video is great to enhance the test results. Although there was nothing new for me (I am an Audio Precision user as well and work in a similar field), I emjoyed it.
Ah, it is rare to run into others with AP. Thanks for watching and keeping me honest. :)
@@AudioScienceReview I have got access to a Klippel system, too (I also have a former Klippel employee in my team). So if you need help or verification of results in good old europe, let me know.
Nice to see you here!
Thanks Peter. Good to be here and lose my youtube virginity! :)
The legend's first video without any fanfare, marvelous ~!
Well, I didn't want to set high expectations and then fail them! :)
Great to see you on youtube! The whole internet is eternally grateful for your efforts in bringing back the lost 'science' into audio reviews. Thank you.
Thank you, Amir. hope this becomes a regular thing. Your sharing of knowledge is always appreciated.
My pleasure. I hope to do more.
Great to see you on TH-cam Amir. Loved having the explanations for each graph, and listening to your comments. Thank you for doing this.
I am glad you liked it. I was searching for a while on how to do a video review that is different than text. Then I realize talking is cheaper than writing so I explain more in person! :)
Welcome to TH-cam Amir! It's been a long time coming. It's great to hear your voice after lurking around your website for the last 3-4 years. Now we also get to see a video review from the top professional reviewer out there. This will add a whole new dimension to the already amazing reviews from your ASR website. This is great news! Congratulations!
Thank you very much. It is good to be here. You all are so kind!
A whole new era...
Thanks Amir for all your hard work!
The legend himself! Thanks for all the great work you do!
Thank you Taylor.
Congrats for the first TH-cam video. Just liked and subscribed. Thanks for the review again!!
Thank you so much!
The absolute best technical reviews of audio products! Keep up the great work!
Ah, so kind!
Who else wants this reveiew over forum reveiws. Dont have to scroll through tons of arguments. Thanks Amir, glad to see this happening.
Never clicked 'subscribe' and 'bell' so fast in my life.
You are very kind.
Same here. First time I subscribed before watching even the first video. Awesome work in the forum AmirM.
Glad to see you make a TH-cam channel! This made my day :)
You are very kind. Thank you for commenting.
You are a high end manufacturer's nightmare but thanks to reviewers like you we get better products for less money, keep them coming.
Great to finally see you, and I hope this will be the first of many!
I do as well. Thanks.
Thanks for the review, Amir. Long time reader, saved me a lot of money (or gained me a lot of performance at same money spent) thanks to your reviews. Welcome to youtube!
I am glad my work has been useful. Thanks for the kind words and welcome.
So excited about this TH-cam channel.
Amir, as a fellow Microsoft Alumni (Fed 93-00) I am proud of the work you are doing. I have started my own channel DIY HiFi Life that you may find interesting. Cheers.
Here's his channel: th-cam.com/channels/7qJRvjgnO0z2DrNIMWQbDg.html
It's sooooo weird, but quite nice to finally put a voice behind all of these reviews I've read, LOVE your work!
Maybe a video where you go over how you measure stuff to finally dispel the head-fiers and such?
I've never posted on the website, (yet!), but I instantly subscribed to the channel.
First class Amir, and my Thxs. ...
Now I'm booked in to see my analyst as I just can't get a certain avatar out of my head!
This is incredibly welcome! Ever since I came across your site I've been thinking TH-cam would be a nice place for this. Very educational and certain to reach a new audience.
Yes, I have been wanting to do these videos for a long time. Doing the first one is always the hardest as it takes most initiative. Last night I just decided, "heck I am just going to hit record and post it." Good to have gotten that behind me.
@@AudioScienceReviewQuite a few videos in myself I still feel like that sometimes. These things seem pretty straightforward, but if editing takes a lot of time just consider getting an editor.
Out of curiosity, are you recording through your ADI-2? I feel like that masterpiece is a foreshadowing of what audio equipment can become if manufacturers are held accountable to their claims and need to develop functionality to distinguish themselves.
I've been reading your forum posts for a year now, I've always had questions about the various measurements and the best-case scenarios.
This explains all of them.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Great work Amir. Can't wait for more of these.
Thanks. More will be coming....
I really appreciate your work keeping the manufacturers honest! Budget high performance hifi has never been better.
That was a great idea, nice to see your reviews also there! Btw, you are a TH-cam influencer now! :D
Influencer? Oh no! :)
Great video Amir! Hello from the forum!
Hello back! :) Thanks for watching.
Very clear and concise review. I appreciate your work! I can't wait for a loudspeaker review.
Thanks. With any luck, the next video will be on a video review!
Hey Amir. Love your videos. Purchased the Topping A30 Pro
(it’s a little moNster, love it!)
and ordered my D30 Pro today
so in about a week I’ll be set up quite nicely; based in large part on your extremely technical and precise testing. Thanks again and take care.
Nice to finally met you in person, Amir! I'm a fan of your work, that shine a light on the obscure audio market. Very Welcome to TH-cam!
first!!!! what a surprise glad to see your gonna build a youtube presence. your channel is gonna do really well. big fan!!! Glad to see your not some young arrogant person. =)
Thanks MisterMax. On your last comment, seems like I need to dial up my nastiness to keep up with my image! :)
Congrats to your new channel!
I got 2 of them on Canuck Audio Mart just because of your review. For 300$ CAD each, those are incredibles!
I really enjoy how you explain what the measurements mean, I thought I knew but your video does a better job than just text. Keep it up
Thanks for this video. Your explanation of measurements were immensely useful for a newbie.
It's great to see you on video Amir! Great job. You present like you've been doing it for years :)
Happy to see you've begun to do video reviews! The measurements and data you provide are super useful and interesting! Glad to have a face to put with the name finally! Best of luck to you with the channel!
I purchased this morning the D30 Pro + A30 combo after browsing some other channels and forums for a couple of weeks. Later today I found your channel and your reviews are giving me a lot of joy. I also have the KRK Rokit RP5 G4 speakers, so it seems that this channel was made for me, hahaha. Many thanks for all your technical explanations and for making your videos right to the important points without adding any non-sense like other channels do. You are amazing!
Hey amir, lurker from your website here. Just wanted to say I really respect and appreciate what you are doing. Purchased gear based on your recommendations.
Fantastic video Amir, I really appreciate the addition insight into the measurements.
Thanks Paul. Glad to know that the approach I took in the video is a good one.
Great first vid Amir, thanks for all your tireless work for all us audio nerds :)
This is the most overdue TH-cam channel! Looking forward to some great videos.
Welcome and great to see you on YT, Amir! Looking forward for more of such videos, perhaps some tear-downs too. Thank you!
topping did it again.. :) great summary at the end too.
i read so many of your reviews on the forum, but man, its so good to have you walk through these tests cause I didn't understand much just by reading. :)
Loving these technical reviews!
Hah! Found this channel through the algorithm. Haven't visited the website for a while, so this was really out of the blue.
Really like your work Amir 😊
Thank you for your effort and for taking your time to share it with us on screen.
Congratulations to your first appearance here on TH-cam. The forum you have established (ASR, Audio Science Review) is indispensable, including the contributions of so many collaborators. I am probably not he only one who is interested in learning how measurements work, what the differences between good and badly constructed dacs, amps etc. are and what the graphs and figures mean.
Maybe someday you could show how distorsions and noise sound while the deterioration is depicted on a monitor.
Consumers will be able to decide for what kind of performance they are willing to pay.
Thanks in advance, Amir.
Thank you for your good work. As a newbie, I genuinely appreciate your explanation of each chart and tests. Thank you very much
First video and already really good production value ! Have you done video work in the past ? Continue like that, it's great !
No I have not done any video production in the past. I am a photographer and my career spanned both audio and video. Appreciate the words of encouragement.
Hey Amir, thank you very, very much for all the time and effort you have put in sharing your knowledge and experience with the audio community - it's absolutely fantastic. Wishing you every success with the new Channel, cheers Stewart
Great video Amir, I’m happy you are on youtube now.
Oh my God, Amir is a real person! ;) ...great video, hard to believe that was your first video, so well made, so easy to understand. To tell you the truth I did not expect that from a hardcore engineer like yourself, obviously you are a multitalented person. And of course I clicked on the subscribe button and I cannot wait for more of your informative videos.
I take it for granted that people don't know what I look like and who I am as a person. Only discussions tend to often be adversarial so one comes across differently than reality. Despite being an introvert like many engineers, long time ago I realized I need to overcome that and be able to speak in public and explain things. Thanks for the comment and subscribing.
Amir, you will earn a lot of money with this channel, you can forget the mugs now! Thank you so much!
Ah, now I have to decide if making mugs is easier than doing videos! :)
@@AudioScienceReview get me a t shirt, I will wear it with pride.😀
Great work Amir, many thanks for these videos and your contribution on the forum
Nice to put a face to the words on the forum! Great review as always.
Welcome to youtube Amir!!!
Best wishes to you and your channel!!!
:)
Topping equipment measure so well, the company basically seems to be in competition with itself these days. Impressive.
Great video going through the measurements. Really helps out in putting the numbers in to context for someone that can't relate the measurements to anything really.
Thank you, I was waiting for this (both the review & channel).
I am glad. :)
Nice to see this happening, Amir - and with your usual attention to "fidelity", I noticed that the lighting and sound for your video are very good on your very first post. (I cannot believe how so many TH-cam audio "reviewers" don't have clue about how to produce good voice sound quality for their own videos, yet claim to be audio/sound experts.)
As I write this comment, I see that the up/down vote ratio is currently 209 to 5, but the naysayers didn't post their criticism.
Last year I bought a Topping DX7s DAC/HA to get the good balanced output DAC, but this unit would be even better for my application, because I don't use headphones.
(I see one of the $175 BenQ Genie curved LED desk lights behind you in the video. There is one on my wish list at Amazon, but I am hesitating. Is is really versatile and good enough to justify the high price for this old guy whose vision, like his hearing, is not what it used to be in the past? Lighting near a computer screen is tricky, because sometimes one would like to light up things on the desk while not washing out the screen image.)
Thanks. I figured these things are important so have spent a good few weeks gathering the bits and testing. Fortunately I had the most expensive bit already (my Canon 5D MK 4 DSLR). Will keep refining it.
Thanks for taking the effort to make a video and explaining everything!
AMAZING review for a very good DAC .. Thanks Amir ...
Just subscribing to your channel...
I found even more interesting following your tests and measurement descriptions through a video. I'll take the time needed to watch at the videos you explained the individual relative measures too.
Thanks a lot for your work Amirm! 😉
Hi, I like your reviews very much, the speakers and headphones too, fantastic !
Thanks a bunch.
Welcome to the YT world! I will be on the channel from time to time and no the measurement only crew is not going to like my takes just as they don’t on the forums.
Thanks.
Love the format! You're a TH-cam natural! Nice work on lighting and camera, too. 👍
Thanks Amir for making the jump into TH-cam. After reading your forum for the last 2+ years and going over so many graphs, this concise clear yet very detailed explanations by the man himself is a treat.
Great to hear! Thanks for watching Jeremy.
have a good start Amir! Been waitting for this!
AMIR MADE A VIDEO !!! Added you to my subscribed list !!! Welcome to the TH-cam community !!
Thank you so much. I am surprised myself. :)
@@AudioScienceReview if you don't mind, can you add Impulse response graph to the review? I have NAD M51 DAC, that DAC is funny because the polarity output is inverted by default. Maybe that info is useful for some of us, your subscribers :) Anyway, GREAT VIDEO !!
Great to see you're expanding to TH-cam as well.
Listen to my A30Pro feeding into my Schitt Asgard3. What a combo. Beautiful sound stage, natural vocals, and far more relaxing than an ESS Sabre DAC. I mean this DAC is solid gold even minus MQA decoding or Bluetooth. Trying to get a good sounding DAC has been a chore for me. Thank god. Finally found what I'm looking for. Bravo Topping and Cirrus Logic (Wolfson).
MQA is a scam
Finally on TH-cam!!!! Can't thank you enough!! Will you review the Geshelli JNOG at some point?
Best regards!
Absolutely brilliant youtube debut, excited to see what comes next!
Thanks Mikael.
I haven't reacted so fast, as your subscribe button. :D
Thank you! :)
TOPPING products are getting better and better with each release, Amir. :) - LiolJohn
Glad to see you on TH-cam!
Long time fan of your hard work. Would love to see a casual zoom chatwith zeos or Joshua Valour or bggggaggaaaarr one day, lax podcast style. Cheers!
Welcome to TH-cam Amir!
Thank you.
Hello Amir, nice to see you on yt. A good feeling to see no High-End-Voodoo ;-)
Hello Walter. Yes, will continue to carry the banner. Thanks for watching.
Finally, a face to a name, a face to an avatar! Thank you for your important work.
Imagine our collective disappointment when Amir turned out not to be a Japanese geisha
The DAC race is a great spectacle. The quality is increasing to a point where the human ear cannot discern any imperfections. Amir is saying some of these values were unattainable only a few years ago. Wow.
Really? A video that is literally а retelling of forum post? Powerful content!
I have come to learn its not just about the technical specs, total accuracy that is important but t is the over all presentation be that sound and appearance of the hardware wise that suits the listener.
Great to see you on TH-cam - Thumb UP.
Nice to meet you, finally! Subscribed.
Amir. Love your channel and forum. However explain something to me. I tried an RME ADI 2 DAC and didn’t like it. The same one you reviewed. I much prefer my Marantz HD DAC1. Yes I completely agree with you on the measurements but I just didn’t like it. The treble sounded a bit grainy and the soundstage was a bit shallow.
I am and have been a musician for over 40 years. I know what instruments sound like and actually what they feel like. The Marantz made instruments sound more real to me as well.
So what am I hearing ? Does it have to do with the analog output stages of both DACs?
I love what you are doing do dispel all the audio pseudoscience. Just confused on my DAC preference.
Thank you
I love the smell of placebo in the morning. Smells like... Victory.
Who knew Noah Levenstein had a spectrometer? :') Keep up the good work!
Love these technical reviews Amir, the detail and accuracy you put into each one is greatly appreciated. I often hear you say the the threshold of audibility is about -115 dB. That seems like a very conservative figure and probably only achievable in a very good anechoic chamber, the typical listening room as measured using a calibrated SPL meter it typically 40 to 45 dB. Considering the threshold of pain is generally listed as 120 dB it seems almost impossible to hear anything below 80 to 85 dB. What's your opinion on this? Thank you.
Finding your TH-cam channel was absolutely fantastic!
Does anyone or even you Amir know when this DAC will see a release?
Again thank you for your contributions to the audiophile community.
Nice video. Been reading the site for a while now, even better to have a video. You should play the D30 to show how good it sounds (/sarcasm)
Thanks for being at the site and watching the video. I thought about playing it but didn't know how to present that in any useful way.
First video?? That was really really good. Do you have experience in other video work?
Wow! Amir at TH-cam!
Great video. I hope you will one day mount the camera on your head like Zeos and start twitch-streaming.
Most excellent! Would love to see you do the same with a Primaluna Evo 100 tube DAC. Welcome to the tubes! Ha ha
Didn't even know you had a TH-cam channel!
Great review with 1 request for future videos. As I'm watching on my phone it would be great if you use a split screen only now and then. The graphs are much easier to read full screen.