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Topping D10 DAC

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pasu11

May 19, 2020

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Easy setup in Linux without needing of any driver. Very clean sound via spdif out.

It works on Manjaro Linux without needing to install any driver. My setup is: Linux(pulseaudio) -> USB2.0 -> Topping D10 -> Coaxial Digital out -> Denon 1612 Receiver -> HD 598 Headphone. With my old cheaper $30 dac, the sound was clean but also a bit harsh. With the D10, it does a great job on passing through the digital signal to my receiver. The sound is very clean and not harsh. I am ordering a pair of rca cables so I can use the DAC on the D10(ESS ES9018K2M) instead of my receiver(AK4358VQ). I hope it will sound better.

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banerjeesaby

Jun 24, 2020

pasu11Good to learn about this working flawlessly without needing a driver with Linux OS. I have a Linux Mint and awaiting delivery of this DAC

Jun 24, 2020

pasu11

Jun 25, 2020

banerjeesabyI believe you won't regret it. :) By default, pulseaudio cannot take full advantage of the high sample rate because it down-samples anything to 44k. To play any audio without any sampling, you can modify the pulseaudio daemon file: sudo gedit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf change ;avoid-resampling = no to avoid-resampling = yes #note: by removing the ";" sign, you enable the setting. #you should change gedit to any text editor in your system. #note: avoid-resampling should be working start with Pulse Audio 11.0. If you have older version, this may not work. #this setting brings native sampling playback to Linux. Down sampling is what makes pulseaudio sounds so bad. ;default-sample-rate = 44100 ;alternate-sample-rate = 48000 to default-sample-rate = 192000 alternate-sample-rate = 44000 you can change 192000 to any number you like depending on the connection: 96000 - pulseaudio (d10 analog out) with fibre toslink (I believe toslink can only output 24bit/96k) 192000 - pulseaudio (d10 analog out) with coaxial 384000 - pulseaudio (d10 analog out) with dual rca #note: when you output via pulseaudio d10 analog, you are using the dac from toppings. #note:but if you output via pulseaudio d10 digital, you are passing digital signal through d10 without processing. From my experience, using d10 analog via single coaxial @ 192000 max provide best result maybe it is due to my coaxial cable is better shielded than the rca cables I have. You might want to try to play around with the setting to find out which is best for you. Some people play audio via the ALSA because pulseaudio sounds worse than ALSA. If your pulseaudio version is not too old and allow the avoid-resampling = yes setting, than you should not have to deal with ALSA at all. The advantage of doing this is, you can control the volume via pulseaudio. Hope it helps :P

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Jun 25, 2020