Linsoul Topping D10 Balanced USB DAC with ES9038K2M, XMOS XU208, ASIO Drivers, Balanced TRS/XLR Output, Automatic Power on/Off, Support DSD256 PCM384 (Silver) Show Share: Found a lower price? Let us know. Although we can't match every price reported, we'll use your feedback to ensure that our prices remain competitive. Where did you see a lower price?Website (Online)URL: Price: ($) Ok, to build the simplest version of the no-dac you need an Amanero board, a pair of RCA connectors, wire, 2x 3K3 (3300) ohm resistors and 2x 1000pF (0.001uF) capacitors. If your preamp is cap coupled you dont need a set of DC blocking caps, but if your not sure put them in. The value will depend on the input impedance of your preamp, a tube pre with input impedance around 100K will be fine with 0.47- 1.0uF, solid state go up to 10uF. If your not sure use 10uF. 0.47uF Auricaps shown here. I used 2200pf (0.0022uF) caps for the filter because they were already on tagstrip, but "correct" value is 1000pf, 2200pf will give a bit more attenuation of high freq noise. The gurus will tell you you need to use exotic caps, but the performance of the no dac will exceed the relative merits of different types of caps, use what you like. Even electros for blocking cap are ok, I really like the ELNA Silmics, but hard to get. If you use electros + terminal to junction. Use pins 3 and 5 of the Amanero for the right and left DSD outputs. Any of the ground pins for grounding. So a wire from pin 5 goes to one end of a 3K3 resistor, the other end of the resistor gets connected to the 1000pF cap, the other end of this cap gets connected to ground. The junction of 3K3 and 1000pf is the output of the left channel. This gets connected to the blocking cap, and the other end connected to RCA hot connection, the middle pin. The earth tab of RCA of course gets connected to earth.  Same for pin 3 which becomes right channel. Ignore the white wires, I was using Amanero for something else. And the pink, yellow, green wires on output. For pcm-dsd conversion the easiest way is to use JRIver. First download and install the drivers for Amanero from the website. Then on JRiver- Tools- Options- Audio Device select as shown on pix. You'll need to have the device attached for this to show up. To encode pcm-dsd : Tools-Options-DSP Studio, select 2x DSD DoP . If you have native DSD files you can select Native , but for playing ordinary pcm files use DoP. And finally click mouse on Audio Path when playing and it will show DSD output 5.6Mz in this case. Keep the volume down initially to ensure pop between tracks is not an issue. This will be interesting to most of you brought up on opamps in output stages of dacs, here we are eliminating the opamps and the dac! The simplicity and lack of phase rotation gives a big sound, good imaging and soundstaging. Its a bit raw, but going to the more sophisticated JLSounds board makes it more organic and natural sounding. And Linux can be used which I prefer over Windows. And a mute board can get rid of pops. I still prefer the no-usb approach which is even more natural sounding, maybe there's still a hint of digital with the no-dac , not so with the no-usb. Compact size ultra performance Balanced USB DAC. Compatible with DSD256 and PCM384 D10 Balanced is compatible with 16-32bit/44.1-384kHz and DSD64-DSD256 Native. Automatic power on/off D10 Balanced will synchronously power on/off with PC. Plug and Play under multiple OS D10 Balanced has a wide range of compatibility: Windows (above Win10), MAC, and Linux can all be plug and play. Only for ASIO applications under Windows need to install the driver and set it up. (Android and IOS not compatible due to insufficient OTG current). Professional applications are also competent D10 Balanced supports professional ASIO applications. When using ASIO in MAC or Linux, it can be set in the music playback software; when using ASIO with Windows, you can use the customized driver from Thesycon. Audio format and sampling rate indicator D10 Balanced can accurately indicate the audio format (PCM or DSD) and sampling rate of the playing music. Orange LED is soft and not dazzling even at night. DSD playback only displays the sampling rate in ASIO mode. Connect to active speakers Connect the output of D10 Balanced to your active speakers, then send better sound directly into the speakers in a more professional way. Connect to power/headphone amplifier You can connect D10 Balanced to your amplifier/headphone amplifier's input to make D10 Balanced one part of your HIFI system. D10 Balanced will greatly improve sound quality in case playing high resolution files. USB interface application If you already have a better DAC, you can connect D10 Balanced's coaxial / optical output to your DAC, then D10 Balanced serve as a USB bridge. D10 Balanced outputs no higher than PCM 24bit 192kHz or DSD64 when served as USB bridge. What is the preferred buffer size for ASIO?1- From the DJ Control Panel, set the USB buffer size to Standard (4 ms), and the ASIO buffer size to 512 Samples, which is a good starting point for most computers. What is topping D10 balanced ASIO?D10 Balanced supports professional ASIO applications. When using ASIO in MAC or Liunx, it can be set in the music playback software; when using ASIO with Windows, you can use the customized driver from Thesycon. D10 Balanced can accurately indicate the audio format (PCM or DSD) and sampling rate of the playing music. |
