[Thomastb]

I got my dx9 a month ago and it is very versatile unit and an endgame DAC at the very least. I agree that the HPA is slightly weaker than what I expected and my Fostex can go almost -10 db volume and still sound comfortable. But my Heddphones v1 have no issue at all at -10 db and do become intolerable as do my HEK SE at anything higher as do my Audeze xc 2021. The AKM DAC chip here is TOTL and will be hard to find at this price point. I have my Q7 for the ESS chip which is a brighter DAC and before this I was using a Chord Mojo which is a very lively DAC. But so far I like the darker AKM EQ's luxuriant sound. But the Chord Mojo 2 is going to be more for portable usage. The dx9 is the heart of my hi fi setup now feeding my Vincent audio preamp. The dx9 has enough inputs to keep the most diehard i2S fan satisfied along with USB and optical inputs. A real luxurious TOTL DAC unit at least for me. My TOTL headphone amp unit is going to be the Burson Audio Solo Voyager which is currently on its way to me.

Hi, how would you compare and rank the Chord mojo2, fiio Q7, topping dx9, burson solo voyager?

Which one gives you the biggest wow factor? Thanks.

 

[Kunal1991]

Just got the HD800S for my DX9, swapped the connector to balanced and noticed one of the earpiece connectors came loose during the swap.
Filed an RMA. Replacement is due in a week, new one will also come with the 6.35 inch single ended cable pre-fitted (which I definitely won't change this time around).
Would the single ended cable matter on a DX9?
It shouldn't make a difference since the single ended output on the DAC should be on par.
Anybody got info on the single ended output?

 

[tiaocunha]

Someone could test it against the Fiio K19?

Im also waiting for this, thinking about buying one of the 2, upgrading from the smsl-su9 combo

 

[droid23]

Couldn't be happier with the DX9 at the moment... waiting for the DCA E3 to arrive hopefully today or tomorrow.

...though I ran into a bit of a small setup glitch with my rather new Gaming PC (i7, 4080, 64 GB RAM, Win 11) connection and Foobar2000 WASAPI and ASIO in conjunction with the DX9.
I guess I had configured all direct DX9 settings within FB2000 correctly, but when listening, especially with higher res tracks, I noticed some sporadic cracks and this indicated probably to some latency issue in the standard buffer settings. For example, when I use ASIO, I have, of course, several buffer sizes to choose from in the "Topping USB Audio Device Control Panel", beginning with 32 samples up to 8192 samples. 2048 was pre selected natively, and with that, comparatively high buffer setting, I experienced these dropouts/cracks. To me it was strange that with such a potent PC and generous buffer size, this can happen.

Long story short, I set the buffer size to 4096 and all is good. Sure that increases latency, but when only listening to music (and not producing), a higher latency doesn't play any role. So, if anyone runs into the same problem, just increase the buffer size, even maxing it out, doesn't hurt and has no effect on sound signature otherwise.

 

[droid23]

Solved the cracking noise problem for good. After many hours of trying out everything, because even when playing around with buffer sizes, still the cracking sound appeared, but much less often, so I was too quick to state that I solved it earlier. Now, the final suspect was identified and it was the original Topping USB drivers, 100% sure about that. Now I use the Windows ones (since it's anyway an XMOS device) and it works flawlessly without any cracks anymore.