New RSA amp for both stats and traditional, looks pretty cool (canāt find any other info aside from the picture lol)
On another note, a question for this new release, why?
People keep talking about this ārgbā stuff these days right, thatāll sell right?
Love me some RSA gear 
Wonder if theyāll make the IEMs light up nextā¦ 
also, thatās a driver config Iāve never seen before, normally the most est drivers Iāve seen is like 2, not 8
At first I thought it was light up but no itās just essentially glow in the dark, but what if they used tritium or something instead lol. Not sure I would want light up iems regardless of how they did it though lol
Ah thatās actually become pretty common in the past few years with flagships recently, some mfg are basically using est to replace ba in their designs
Iāve always found that weird as a trend with gaming headsets/mice where in use you canāt actually see the lights on it, mice I get a bit more since you can see it when youāre not holding it.
Ah, I hadnāt realised that something like the Thummim has 4 est drivers (I went to look), Iām just so used to seeing setups like the entry ātribridsā and the Trinity having 2 est drivers in it and just assumed that was the normal setup.
Pass has a prototype headamp at Axpona.
This is great news, which was already mentioned a few days ago.
The question is when it is planned.
Hopefully soon 
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Itās the balanced one, right? Itās been in development for a couple of years now.
Did you get to listen to it?
Do you where at AXPONA? Theyāre not in the headphones area afaik
New Hiby DAP, I really like the design, something quite different to the usual players. Also kinda find the āmedium endā part quite amusing
No Iām not there. So no listening.
I would kindly refer to the Shangling M6 Ultra and the A&K SR 35.
Both have 4 dacs integrated the M10 has Akm and A&R Cirus logic.
A&R is coming out in May.
The M6 ultra is already out and could hear it and drove my Z12 top was surprised how good.
M6 also has A10 on it and runs nice and smooth.
And it can also drive Bluetooth bidirectionally.
It really surprised me how good it is, Iām looking for something like that.
I canāt find anything on a Shanling m10 model, I did have the m3x until a couple days ago when I sold it to a friend, I was using it as a streaming dap in and out of the house since my p6p obviously doesnāt have that functionality. I loved my old original A&K sr25 when I had it, so the sr35 does really interest me.
Iāve been considering replacing my old m3x with a second hand dap for streaming but was looking at second hand ones for higher audio performance (mainly sp1000m/dx300), although Iām kinda considering spending those funds on something else like a hs1697ti/Solaris or an og clear.
Oh, sorry, my mistake.
I meant the M6 ultra, that one:
The A&K does indeed look interesting.
Iāll wait for it before I decide.
The only thing that worries me slightly is whether it might be too pointed in the upper area.
Otherwise it makes a good impression on paper.
@M0N What do you think? Does this qualify as something interesting from Topping?
Iām very curious if it is a worthwhile upgrade for Koss 950 (plus adapter cost)
I believe @Draaly and @DanMellinger are getting it to try
Idk, havenāt heard it, weāll find out I guess once @Draaly and @DanMellinger try it lol. While I donāt trust topping to make a product competitive with others at most price points, it could end up being the best option for the price since it basically has little to no competition at that range, who knows
Also, specs are genuinely suspicious, 2000Vp-p from what I know would be really tough to actually be attainable given how little power that thing apparently sips, and if you look at all other estat amps like most ever made, none of them get close to that rated thd which also raises a lot of questions
Is it a clone of some existing estat circuit or just an a90 driving a stepup transformer? If itās the ladder thereās no possible way theyāre getting a transformer that pulls those numbers for that price
High Voltage gets expensive, everything costs more even on an EStat where current delivery is minimal.
The power supplies are expensive.
Itās one of the reasons tube amps get expensive once you start running tubes that require more than a couple of hundred volts.
You might get 700V RMS out of a Mosfet driver, but TBH eStat driver designs are outside of my experience, all I know is the are considered capacitive loads.
Transformer bandwidth can certainly be problematic at lower price points if they went that way.
But it really has no competition at that price.
Rofl. This is honestly perfect.
And yah, the claimed p-p is honestly what made me buy one. I doubt they fully lied about that, but Iām realy not expecting it to be measured in any normal/standard way either. Figured it would be a fun cheap thing to play with for a bit
They have no indication at what voltage out they measured the THD+N, the one graph with THD vs voltage stops at 70V, but Iām not clear if thatās the actual output voltage, seems a bit disingenuous to claim the THD numbers if it is.
