Eversolo Flagship DMP-A10 Streamer, DAP, DAC, and Preamp

[Sound Dragon]

I am still within the return window on my DMP-A8. It would have to ship today if I am going to do it though as the window closes Nov 09. I thought long and hard about upgrading to the A10. I think I am going to keep the A8 though. I will add the LHY LPSU and a Holo Cyan 2 DAC (connected via I2S). Then I will be at the same approximate price and almost certainly have better sound quality than the A10. Anyone disagree with this logic while I still have time to course correct?

Nope. Think that’s a fair point with the data that’s available.

 

[Dan31620]

I am still within the return window on my DMP-A8. It would have to ship today if I am going to do it though as the window closes Nov 09. I thought long and hard about upgrading to the A10. I think I am going to keep the A8 though. I will add the LHY LPSU and a Holo Cyan 2 DAC (connected via I2S). Then I will be at the same approximate price and almost certainly have better sound quality than the A10. Anyone disagree with this logic while I still have time to course correct?

I had the A8 + Holo Cyan 2 for a while.
I did not have it anymore.
It was a great combo
The A10 is overpriced...

 

[jjazzy]

I am still within the return window on my DMP-A8. It would have to ship today if I am going to do it though as the window closes Nov 09. I thought long and hard about upgrading to the A10. I think I am going to keep the A8 though. I will add the LHY LPSU and a Holo Cyan 2 DAC (connected via I2S). Then I will be at the same approximate price and almost certainly have better sound quality than the A10. Anyone disagree with this logic while I still have time to course correct?

Could you share your experience with the A8 LHY lpsu upgrade? I am thinking of that upgrade to

 

[Tom Blake]

Will do. Just ordered the LHY LPSU.

Thanks for the input all. I am sticking with the A8. Cyan 2 ordered also.

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Maybe the first YT review out there..

 

[jjazzy]

Maybe the first YT review out there..

Thanks for sharing, exactly confirmed what I thought. The hifi rose rs130 still sounds better as a streamer… and is almost the same price, so the a10 is priced to high.

Maybe they should release a streamer only version.

As a streamer ‘only’ de a8 and a10 are not far apart.

 

[Casey01]

I’ve been very happy with the EverSolo DMP-A6 Master Edition that drives my secondary system. Although I prefer discrete and chip based R2R DACs, the ESS DAC in the A6 is very well implemented. The smartphone app, as also mentioned by Steve Huff in the video, is nicely done.

The only gripe I have with EverSolo is how slowly a large directory is opened on Mac with a SMB mount of the internal NVMe SSD.

Driving my primary system is a Hi-Fi Rose RS250. Its smartphone app is awful compared with EverSolo’s, but otherwise it’s a wonderful unit too. My only gripe with the Hi-Fi Rose is intermittent disconnection from the wireless network. This has been an on-again off-again problem with various software updates.

Nevertheless I’m quite eager to read more about the EverSolo A10. I love the design, including the volume knob/screen. Even if its built-in DAC is closer to neutral (per the video review), it has a parametric equalizer to compensate.

But parametric equalizers, in my limited experience, cannot compensate for that bit of grain in human voices that sigma-delta DACs seem to have, but not R2R DACs. (I don’t mean this as a general statement, but only an observation based on sigma-delta and R2R DACs that I have at home.)

Update 6 Nov:
Just performed an over the air firmware upgrade of Rose RS250 to 5.7.05, which seems to have fixed the Wi-Fi stability problem.

 

[kopczas]

DMP-A10 Internals

Finally they isolated CPU section from audio section!!

 

[Spinning46rpm]

…but it is for sure not the best review!
All the components in Huff‘s review are of course at least „mind-blowing“.

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Of course there are at least two other so called reviews in YT (for now). One with UI speech, the other w/c doesn't disclose what dacs/streamers it compared to... No internal shots.. Just Yada-yada.

In due time..

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Another review. This time will show you the insides, app controls on the smartphone. Comments on speaker setup w/ subwoofer. No music sample.

 

[BlackPink]

Spectacular device.

 

[jjazzy]

Spectacular device.

Don’t agree, not for the price. The A6 and A8 at it price range yes.

You can upgrade the A6 or A8 power supply with LHY A8-LPS or the A6-LPS
And better them.

But the price range compared to other brands with the A10 is wrong. It is nothing more than a tweakes A8, 2800/2900 would have been the right price maxed out. (Not even a bigger screen was addes, really? not even some extra graphic features for example. The os is fine but with the a10 it does nog bring anything more to the table then some tweaks.

I was already worried with the succes of the A6 and A8 they would go this way, hate I was right again.

 

[kopczas]

No music sample.

I`m listening to it right now.

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

It was now edited. When it came out the scecond part (demo music) was not there. It ended as "Thank you for watching, and happy listening..."