Eversolo DMP-A6
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The New Kid on the Block! Eversolo… We have read a lot about it, but now – finally – we were able to hear this new wonder box with generous display on the front. In our own system.
The Eversolo DMP-A6 is a particularly versatile device. It supports Airplay, UPnP, Chromecast and ROON. It has its own app (we used ROON), which we always find a great advantage.
In terms of inputs and outputs, it’s also pretty good: balanced and single ended out, coaxial and optical in and out, USB (A and C), HDMI audio out and of course wifi, bluetooth and wired network.
The sound
If we are honest, we find it quite dangerous to hype up a device. Expectations are always higher with such “wonder boxes”. Is the Eversolo A6 a miracle box? No… certainly not. But it is a very good streamer!
The reproduction of the Eversolo DMP-A6 is clean, The background feels nice and ‘black’. Detail is well presented. However without sounding overanalytical or sterile. That is a fine performance of an appliance in this price range. Musical balance is also excellent. Both in terms of timbre and in the sound-stage that is remarkably spacious without losing focus.
All in all, we are quite impressed with this affordable, solid streamer. For a change, it’s worth a hype…. though we’re still not a fan of assigning “magic” attributes to devices.
Measurements Eversolo DMP-A6
The Eversolo shows solid performance on the test bench. The noise floor is low, crosstalk and dynamic range is good. Linearity is even very good with this dac. Jitter could be a bit better: we see some turbulence in the spectrum there.
Specifications Eversolo DMP-A6
| Model and type | Eversolo DMP-A6 |
| DAC Chip | 2x ESS 9038Q2M |
| Outputs | Single ended, XLR – Coax, optical, HDMI (Audio) |
| Digital in | Coaxial, optical, USB-C, Wifi, LAN, BT |
| Analog in | No |
| Own app | Yes / ROON |
| Pre-amp | Yes |
| Price | 859 |
Ifi Neo stream , the optical network connection generates more noise!!!! How is that possible?
The optical should disappear noise not introduce it? Why didn’t you try with a better power supply?
The power supply is the issue. And we test as-is. This is how you buy the streamer.
So the provided power x is for the neo stream only and the small usb ps causes all the problem?
Yes
Since the noise is generated in the eth to optical box shouldn’t be eliminated during the optical transfer to the streamer?
Apparently not… I measured multiple times…
So is it safe to assume that optical connection isn’t the holly grail for noise isolation? Or the measured noise might appear from another source?
I guess the implementation is just badly done… I never measured issues with other streamers.
In this instance the noise is probably injected in the signal before conversion to light. On the other end, the signal is simply converted back, including the noise.
No, optical isn’t a/the holy grail. If it would be, we all would use Toslink.
In case of this iFi streamer: just hook it up with a regular Ethernet cable, put a switch before it (one we tested adequate) and the result is good.
That…
Kind of ironic that an iFi product introduces noise with a supplied power supply, don’t you think?
Question, what are your settings for the dScope III? I typically use 100K input impedance, sample rate 192K, 32K FFT Prism-7 window and average over 8 samples. Your low end measurements look a little off. One thing you also have to remember is the VBUS/GND is tied to the internal supply and therefore you can get ground loops really easy when testing.
Thanks,
Gordon
Interesting test! Thank you. Going above 1000 eur by a coupld hundred the Eversolo Master version should do even better on the jitter front due to the femto clock and op amps. Would be interesting to measuer that one also.
We will test it as well