RME ADI-2 fs against Topping D90SE

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Interesting. I found by putting it on a thin bamboo platform with some MoonGel damper pads underneath the platform that it opened up. I also moved my speakers about until back to front staging got better. Not the best 3D but good enough for the price

I did a review on my RME against the D90SE if anyone is interested. I still thought the RME had the edge on the D90SE which is still a great buy in the world of DACs

To be honest, once you get to fiddle a bit with the RME unit's DSP, it became quite manageable - still complicated though but in many of the different formats on offer, the sound, to my ears, did not change significantly. What I did like was the ability to better integrate the sound with the room you were listening in. Great value

Mine has the AKM chip (2 yrs old) and is much more 3Dish than the Topping. I believe AKM are back in business and have developed a new chip even better than the previous but again the technology is moving fast and I find differences in units very hard to distinguish until you get up the 'ladder' (with ladder technology). The way we hear these things has a lot to do with what we integrate them with.