#TOPPING STACK VS SCHIIT STACK PORTABLE#

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#TOPPING STACK VS SCHIIT STACK PORTABLE#

Here you can ask which headphone is better, which amp you should buy, which gear best fit your budget and anything related to headphone comparisons and purchasing.įilter by Flair Answered Posts Full-size Open HPs Full-size Closed HPs IEMs Wireless & Portable HPs Amplifiers DACs Sources Rules This subreddit is dedicated to a community of headphone enthusiast and newcomers.Your E50/L50 stack will probably produce similar results to the Topping stack I have though it measures a teensy bit worse on the low end.Īs long as you don't use super-sensitive low-impedance IEMs, the Schiit stack is phenomenal. you can't distinguish them from each other), which is what I like anyway. Sound-quality-wise, both the Schiit Modius/Magnius and Topping D30 Pro/A50s sound completely neutral/accurate (i.e. Not really any, though costs more than the Schiit Modius/Magnius stack.Best-of-breed noise and IM-distortion floor.Low impedance super-high sensitivity IEMs can let you hear the noise floor.Doesn't measure as good as the medium-to-high-end Topping products.~$400 + shipping price is really good for fully balanced great stack.Impedance insensitivity: Can drive insanely low impedance loads from the perspective of headphones, and doesn't care.To be clear, I've even used it to drive RAAL SR1a (equivalent to ~6 ohm 90 db/watt speakers) at reasonable listening levels for myself (~75db average with maybe +15-20db peaks) and it works great! POWER!!! It produces insane maximum power for a headphone amp, you can run it at high power and it doesn't seem to care/overheat.My current summary on measurements and things I've used them for: I have both a Schiit Modius/Magnius and a Topping D30 Pro/A50s stack. I do care about how things look/feel/are built, but both of these stacks seem pretty equal in this respect to me.Īny advice on these two stacks (or alternatives under $600 or so) would be greatly appreciated!! I mostly listen to R&B, jazz, pop, classical, and care a lot about vocal presentation. I care more about a musically enjoyable experience (for me, that means things like tone, timbre, soundstage, staging), and don't care as much for clinical accuracy. Does it make sense at all to go Topping E50/Magnius for the extra power/balanced out, or better to stick with the same brand/design?įor what its worth, I tend to prefer a neutral sound, but not too clinical. But I also understand that the Topping DAC uses a newer DAC chip (does that mean better?), and that both the Topping DAC and Amp measure significantly better than the Schiitius stack. What's going to make more of a difference for my listening experience? Does power and/or balanced out on the amp outweigh the other benefits? My understanding is that both should be enough power for my current cans with headroom (HD 6xx and Hifiman Edition XS) and my next target headphone (Focal Clears), but that more power/headroom can benefit these headphones. the L50 with the SE out at 3.5V), while the other (Topping) has the advantage of better specs/measurements, and things like DSD/MQA decoding that I don't care too much about (I use Tidal sometimes and have some ripped DSD files, but 85% use Apple Music for hifi/lossless streaming which looks like maxes out at 24/192).

It looks like to me that one combo has the advantage of an amp with more power (Magnius with the 6V balanced out vs. Both are almost exactly the same price for me. I already have the balanced cables so the poor SE perf of the Magnius is not a concern.

Looking for advice as an audio newbie - Did a bunch of research and narrowed my amp/dac stack to Schiit Magnius/Modius and Topping E50 / L50.

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