Eversolo DMP-A8 ….. SOTA

But Amir, how does it sound?!

How’s the app?

gyosa wrote: »

stangman67 wrote: »

But Amir, how does it sound?!

Dunno what he thinks about its sound , but I replaced a 851n with one last November and I think it sounds great , better than the 851 …. Also have an A6 , and it sounds great as well .

Bk

I've been thinking for a few months about getting one of their streaming products. Does the A8 give you enough more to justify the cost above the A6? My use case would be running one into an AV preamp most likely rather than using its onboard preamp capabilities.

Emlyn wrote: »

I've been thinking for a few months about getting one of their streaming products. Does the A8 give you enough more to justify the cost above the A6? My use case would be running one into an AV preamp most likely rather than using its onboard preamp capabilities.

The 6 and 8 have different dac chips. A6-ESS, A8-AK. From what I read, I thought I would like the AK chip better so I got an A8. Sounds great. I like it better than the cxn v2. Not using the preamp function. Running it balanced into my pre

The Eversolo T8 streaming media player has been out for a while now and has my interest as well as the companion Z10 DAC. I've had a DMP-A8 and find it to be a good if slightly bright sounding product that gets lots of firmware updates from the company but I don't use it for internet streaming because I don't want to pay for an additional service. Instead, I use it primarily to listen to my own WAV and high res music stored on a 4TB SSD mounted internally to avoid having to deal with WiFi limitations. It's been a rock solid performer.

The T8 has the option for two 8TB SSDs! Unfortunately, because of a shortage of SSDs in the consumer market starting several months ago because memory chips have been directed into the AI industry, getting two of the 8 TB drives now could cost from $2K to $5K depending on brand! I remember getting a Samsung 2TB SSD for around $100 a couple years ago.

It will use USB external hard drives which cost far less.

Given the absurd cost now, I wouldn't use 8TB SSDs in anything except for business but I would need two 4TB to fit my music library. I only use FLAC files in my car. Lots of classical music from box collections that isn't on the 4TB drive I have in my A8 would need to go on a second SSD.

A 20TB external hard drive for around $500 would make a whole lot more sense but that would definitely be overkill. 4TB versions are basically toss away products if they break after a couple years now. I have had some of those burn out but not a big deal with backups.

I don't see SSD prices coming down any time soon and that also has an effect on the prices of laptops and tablets that don't rely on disc drives. I was looking at pricing on those this morning and they are way up.

Shoot, 1TB is an insane amount of music!

I know that varies due to resolution, but let's take an average. A typical album at 24/192 FLAC is often around 2 to 3.5 GB, sometimes more. So 1 TB would hold roughly about 285 to 500 albums at that resolution.

I would hate to take all of my physical music and put it on the Memory Player. I would estimate taking up 4TB as well. My gripe is that I'd rather just play the physical music on whatever format I have to play it on, rather than spending the time to transfer it all over and having it all wiped out due to something failing.....and keeping up with backups as you add albums.

Tom

Nah, about 1K LP's and maybe 1200 or so CD's. I am new to all of this digital storage stuff and I have only transferred 4 CD's so far (The Memory Player was pre-loaded with mostly audiophile albums from the previous owner). I have a boat ton of storage left and 2 BU 1TB HD's. Looks like I will never use all of it....which I am perfectly fine with.

All of these sources, combined with streaming on Tidal and Qobuz, I have more music available than I will ever listen too.

Tom

I put a 2TB in my DMP A8. 2 years ago. $125. Currently $315. WTH!