[M700LTR]

I was watching the latest episode of Shogun and the A70 gave my Susvara's a pop on each driver individually. Luckily, Susvara survived, but the A70 is getting sold. Do not recommend.

 

[Slackaveli]

I was watching the latest episode of Shogun and the A70 gave my Susvara's a pop on each driver individually. Luckily, Susvara survived, but the A70 is getting sold. Do not recommend.

as an Aside- Shogun is the best show of the decade so far!

Also, I guess I should unwatch this thread as I'm in a couple dozen already and I got the Flux Mentor/Yggy stack. Peace guys.

 

[dunring]

Thank you very much. That's a pitty. So it is not perfect for watching movies in dark rooms. I will try the Smsl DO400.

I have a D400 coming Wednesday and could give a real world opinion on it then. Just put together a DL200/A70Pro stack and loving it. I've had them twice before for the business and now every other amp I have sounds lame except for the SMSL SP400/M400 which has a great dynamic response (drum hits are distinctive and responds faster than the Topping stuff generally, it's a party music stack). Going to be up listening to this pair all night. The Aliexpress sale til the 28th made it $350 for the amp after discount, coupons, and cashback with the warranty doubled. The DL200 is $150 for a 5 volt DAC. Who would have thought things would be this cheap 5-10 years ago?

 

[Gymboy]

Yeah A70 Pro is a nice amp, has very nice dynamic range and slam, power wise everything is driven like it should .

 

[Light - Man]

I have a D400 coming Wednesday

Just put together a DL200/A70Pro stack and loving it.

Well then, do you care to share your impressions of the D400 as a DAC compared to the DL200?

Is it easy to hear the difference between the Pro and the non Pro chip?

 

[NexusOne]

I have a D400

Do you recommend it? This one or a Smsl DO200 Pro + A70 Pro. Smsl DO400 doesn't have HDMI and is weaker but the A70 Pro seems to have lots of software bugs and it is no whole in one solution and the display is not completely dimmable. I don't know if hdmi has got lots of advantages over optical in practise.

 

[JediMa70]

I feel like a bad noob I must say but I haven't found out how to make it work with my powered Speakers. I plugged them by rca to the back ports on the A70, but no sound. Rca in Edifier speaker is in AUX in (tried also pc in and still no sound) and RCA in Topping are plugged in RCA Out and its set on HPA+PRE .. I dont know

 

[dimkaa]

I had a brief encounter with it in January this year. I bought it along with a sabre dac. I found it lacking energy and thin sounding. Also not very user friendly. Manual that came with both units were a joke.

 

[Gymboy]

I had a brief encounter with it in January this year. I bought it along with a sabre dac. I found it lacking energy and thin sounding. Also not very user friendly. Manual that came with both units were a joke.

Yeah I heard ESS is little clinical, Cirrus Logic has nice booty bass, still very clean but no sharpness even with HD800S. I am planning to get one S17 Pro Class A to have additional flavour.