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The build quality is rock solid, i like the screen that shows the sampling rate and, most important, it sounds great specially at 192 khz. I wish it had MQA decoding but for that you need the E50. Aniway i give it 5 stars, if you are not into MQA this is all you’ll ever need.

I bought this to replace my Sound Blaster Z, and so far it's working flawlessly. Windows 10 detects it without any additional driver installation (up to 32 bit / 384 kHz), and I was able to power it with a spare iPhone charger. I'm using mine in DAC-only mode connected up to a set of powered speakers and the sound quality is excellent. The metal housing is also very solid, and looks quite nice on my desk.The only downside is the the single touch button on the front of the unit: it's the only way to change settings without the remote, and it's a bit of a pain to use. You also can't change the volume for the pre-out with it. Thankfully for my use case, I set everything up and don't need to screw with it again.I'd expect something like this to be priced much higher, and barring any future hardware failures, I'm extremely happy with it.Edit: Knocking off a star as the unit seems to have an issue where it will disconnect from my PC with a "pop" through the speakers, and get stuck with "OFF" on the display. In this state, the unit is unresponsive to both the remote and face button. The only way I've been able to solve this issue is to unplug the unit's power and plug it back in. This happens roughly once every 2-3 weeks.

TLDR; Did a lot of research, Topping E30 is a great value DAC, saw some issues w/ polarity. Took a chance to get it now, and turns out no issues w/ polarity it's serial 2004+ 😊I spent probably a month deciding which DAC to buy. I spent hours debating whether I needed or wanted balanced XLR for future upgrades. I was comparing what all essentially seemed to be similar offerings with different feature sets from Geshelli, SMSL, and Topping. Then I stumbled upon the E30. I waited patiently for the new SMSL M200 DAC to have some reviews which I was sold on previously. I realized that the M200 was overhyped and not especially great value. If the E30 was balanced, it would be the end-all DAC in the price range. I don't know if it matters; the sound quality produced by the E30 is incredible.You can look at oscilloscope readings that tell you why a DAC is the best, which scientifically has the cleanest signal. The E30 tests are remarkably high, it tests similarly to DACs more than 300% of its MSRP on many tests. WOW. This includes linearity, distortion, and dynamic range. It made me rethink whether I even cared if a device had a balanced XLR output. I started researching the minute differences in RCA and XLR to determine if I even really cared about XLR. As much as I would like to have XLR for a powered monitor upgrade and to feed a 789 in balanced mode, most powered monitors still include RCA. Additionally, RCA doesn't suffer much degradation in signal comparatively over short distances.All of these factors led me to conclude that the E30 was something that hit the mark high for budget DACs. So high in fact that I was willing to buy this with 0 reviews from HiFi-College marked as manufactured by KGUSS. I can assure you, it is the right DAC with the right serial, and it is fantastic. Stop hesitating, just get this.Things I've learned:1. Check the manual when you get it and switch it into DAC mode if you don't want to use the preamp. The display will then only display bitrate and no longer function only as a DAC.2. I would suggest leaving Windows volume at 99, without a longwinded explanation it allows a tiny amount of overhead for the DAC to function well. More information can be found by searching DACs and the Gibbs Phenomenon.

Everything worked as expected out of the box with the exception of the audio up/down function.Sending the unit back.

Great Product Great Value

Maybe it's just me. This is the second brand of DAC/Amp setup I have used and I cannot discern between a digital transmission and an analog one. So I can't knock the unit. I put it together with the accompanying amplifier and it sounds great with headphones as well as a 2.1 laptop speaker system.Don't let this review stop you from trying it. I have nothing negative to complain about it. I'm not tone deaf, either.

Works well under Linux (Arch), easy to configure and it sounds pretty good.

The defect, the remote stopped function after a week. However, this can be solved through direct passthrough on the dac as there is no other way to controll it. Overall great technicalities for the price with a medium ish sound stage creation. Detail retrieval is great as well with no underling issues. You will need a separate amp to operate it as it is just an op amp with two rca ouputs.

Coming from a FiiO D3 I'd say this is a really good upgrade. The sound quality is fantastic, I can't imagine anything sounding noticeably better. The feature set is also really nice, especially the auto on/off and pure dac features. I'm using the optical toslink input with a mac mini running debian Linux and the Logitech media server software. From this I play local flac files, CDs, and hi-res music from Qobuz and I really couldn't be happier with the results. I did want to use the USB input instead of toslink but the auto on/off doesn't seem to work in this mode, but that might be because of how the USB audio output works on my setup. Overall I'm happy I bought this and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a high quality dac

I’m using the e30 as a DAC between my iMac and integrated Sansui 2000x amplifier. I compared the e30 to the sound from my CD player and they are very similar. Sound quality is noticeably better than going directly from iMac to my integrated amp. I also compared the e30 being used as a DAC to my Scarlett 2i4 DAW. The e30 is better. If you are a vinyl enthusiast, vinyl is still best. Don’t think. Just buy and enjoy.

I've been recording and producing records and film music since the 70s. I wanted to update my home system to approximate what "audiophiles" are listening to these days but I've been skeptical about "cheap" DACs. I watched lots of reviews. This one isn't rated that highly by the HIFI mavens on YouTube, but it's impossible to know what kind of ears even very knowleadgable guys have, and this price range was doable for me as an experiment. Well this unit sounds abolutely great, very lively and open with 6 quite useful and different musical sounding filters. As far as I can hear the version II of this model has solved the reported problems of first E30. It's a good buy.

Muy buen DAC. La relación calidad precio inmejorable. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.

I have a $3,500 Cambridge DAC and I would say the Topping E50 is very very close in sound quality to that DAC - I’ve already recommended this DAC to my friends.Thanks