Topping E50 DAC

The Topping E50 is an eye-catching entry into Topping’s excellent line of desktop audio units. Centered on the ES9068AS, the E50 delivers a top-tier 32-bit, 768 kilohertz of audio conversion for detail, clarity and accuracy in sound. Supporting native DSD64–512, you can be sure that this DAC brings quality on output, especially when paired with the low-noise headphone preamp. There’s even MQA support baked right in, so you can breathe studio-quality life into all the audio files in your collection. Topping has also taken painstaking care on the clock side to minimize jitter in the USB inputs so that when the E50 does receive the audio file to decode, it does so in a stable, artifact-free way. Perhaps the most obvious feature of the E50, however, is the fact that it comes in four bold colors: more traditional black or silver for understated setups, and bright, bold red or blue for those who want a bit of visual character in their desktop DAC.