Eversolo DMP 8 audition going poorly...

@dandion 

I will be honest and say that I initially thought the A8 was too good to be true, overhyped, saw quite a few really negative reviews, and checked out their website which gave me a negative impression of the Company. And I have said so on this forum.

What prompted me to try the A8 was my go to brick and mortar dealer started carrying it. His lines include Wilson, Dan Ag, Nagra, Clearaudio, HiFi Rose (etc) to give some perspective.

He said you get almost the Rose RS 150 for $3K less money. I was surprised.

We also discussed trading up my TT. My current analogue investment is more than 3 times digital.

I've decided to upgrade my TT to end-game instead of invest any further in digital so the A8 has been returned.  

I was wrong about the A8, it is a nice piece of kit, and I think the streamer section is better than the Node.  

I had purchased all 3 eversolos. A6, A6 master with  linear power supply and finally A8. Lots of nice features for the money but I was more interested in sound. The A8,was the best sound of the 3. However none of them sounded good in my system. I had to move up to an arunder n200 to get close to satisfaction. Then from there to the n20.Iim very happy now, but wallet isn’t. Yea the hype got me good.

I also have a N200  Aurenders are worth the money especially the A8 is now $2000.   I told my Dad to buy a bluesound node or Innuos, or Aurender. All good platforms.  He watched Steve Huff oooing and ahhhing over the A6 and bought one.  360 days later , immediately after update no USB to his DAC.   

Eversolo has no clue how to support their hardware,  many bugs pop up each revision.   Often times it is minor stuff, but when new firmware causes problems and a company flat out lies about a known issue that should be a red flag.  Another red flag is requesting an RMA for repair and being ignored....  still waiting on a reply since 6/22

You are buying into a brand with no channels for hardware support or repair.   If it fails within a year hopefully your dealer will offer to replace it.  After a year, no repairs.    That's OK for a $300 streamer , I'll accept that .  But $1299 $2000 products ?   C'mon.   They are not interested in after sales support or hardware repair.  Buy at own risk

Hmm, well consider this:  

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/eversolo-dmp-a8-balanced-streamer-dac-review.55826/

Means nothing, zero....  if a product measures great and has weak support how good is it really?