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Such performance underscores how critical the DAC is in the signal chain. Regardless of how refined the amplification or loudspeakers may be, a compromised converter upstream will veil information and restrict dynamics. The D900 demonstrates the opposite effect: by keeping distortion and noise below audibility, it allows every subsequent stage to work at its best. Listeners may find familiar recordings yielding new levels of intimacy and realism, not because of any editorial “voicing,” but because the DAC is stepping out of the way and letting the source material speak for itself.

For those who still question whether digital playback has reached maturity, the D900 offers a persuasive answer. Topping has combined superb engineering discipline with innovative decoding technology, and the result is a converter that competes with units costing several times as much. The D900’s fine detail retrieval is spectacular, its noise performance exemplary, and its overall contribution to system fidelity impossible to overstate. As the essential bridge between digital media and the analog world, we hear, the DAC deserves as much attention as any amplifier or transducer. With the D900, Topping has proven that this attention can pay extraordinary dividends.

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