Eversolo DMP 8 audition going poorly...

My advice. Never stay in a relationship that isn't working.

You can grit your teeth and try to make things work, but most times it is better to just move on.

@ossicle2brain Analogue is my primary source. I have a new, maybe endgame TT arriving tomorrow.

@tony1954 The A8 is boxed up.

But to be clear for present and prospective owners, it is a decent product and sounded good once I figured out that all those fancy filters and reply-gain matching just get in the way. 

It just didn't beat what I already had.

Macg19, there is setting in A8 audio menu to bypass internal sampling/processing .  When it is enable, the A8 will stream directly the flac files to and external dac without processing. I prefer this setting to on.  

Check for : Eversolo original sampling rate audio engine.

@dandion Thank you - I did play with that setting.

Now, let your A8 plays radioparadise for a week 24h/day and come back to us with your impressions. I would be really surprised to see that you still prefer the node steamer...

The A8 is a completely difefrent animal with EQ, DSP, I2S, features.  Personally, I prefer streaming pcm than listening flac files stored with the A8 but I upgraded all my network route with better switch, FMC, ethernet Cat8 cables etc,,,,

I upgraded from the A6 with LHY power supply to the A8.  The A8 is step up regarding soundstage size.

If you want to exprience deep, wide 3D soundstage with A8, you need to correct your speakers with DSP but it is another story...