Eversolo Announces Flagship DMP-A10 Streaming DAC
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After their earlier release this year of the DMP-A8, now comes their flagship DMP-A10 streaming DAC. The DMP-A10 is a digital to digital converter (DDC), streaming DAC, standalone DAC and supports parametric EQ and Eversolo’s own room correction software. It is a fully balanced analogue pre-amplifier with balanced XLR inputs and outputs and uses a resistor ladder volume control.
The 16.9″ wide, CNC precision-engineered case sports a 6.5″ diagonal front-panel touchscreen and rotary volume control with internal display. Great care has been taken to ensure both the separation and screening of analog and digital signals and hardware, minimizing noise. The internal DAC is built around an ESS SABRE 9039 PRO chip with its associated digital hardware all locked together using a custom-developed temperature controlled OCXO clock system. The clock design ensures that both audio crystal oscillators (45.1584MHz and 49.152MHz) operate at a constant optimal temperature point, thus eliminating frequency fluctuations caused by temperature changes, and delivering extremely low phase noise. Further enhancing the sound purity, the DMP-A10 features dual linear power supplies with ultra-low background noise, providing stable power output for both the digital system and analog audio circuits. The ripple of the analog audio power supply can be reduced to below 30µVrms, creating a quiet and pure listening environment, SNR sitting at 130dB.
The DMP-A10 is equipped with a high-performance fully balanced preamp circuit, supporting XLR/RCA analog inputs. It features a +10dB analog gain and R-2R analog volume control, ensuring ultra-low noise and distortion. Its construction uses audiophile-grade components to include; WIMA capacitors from Germany, TI audio operational amplifiers from US, NICHICON audiophile capacitance and Murata SMT parts from Japan. Internal cabling uses silver-plated single-crystal copper wires that are used to connect the DMP-A10’s audio terminals.
Its customized Android operating system supports; TIDAL, Qobuz, Amazon Music, Tuneln, IDAGIO, Radio Paradise, SoundCloud, Calm Radio, KKbox or Highresaudio. With support for Roon Ready (certification in progress), Tidal Connect, Squeeze Connect, and DLNA protocols, the DMP-A10 can serve as your streaming hub. In addition to two high-speed USB 3.0 ports and two sets of SSD slots, the DMP-A10 supports NFS, SMB, UPnP, and more sharing protocols, allowing you to stream media from NAS devices or network drives. While Eversolo’s Original Sampling-rate Audio Engine (EOS) bypasses Android’s SRC to guarantee bit-perfect playback of all streams.
The DMP-A10 supports almost every high-resolution music format on the market, as well as common CD-quality lossless music files like FLAC, WAV, APE, SACD ISO, and DSD (dsf/dff/ dst). Bit rates up to DSD512 and PCM 768KHz/32 bit are supported depending upon selected input.
Other features include; the 10-band PEQ (Parametric Equalizer) module, Digital Room Correction, the ability to display various meter styles and level displays, a comprehensive local music library and two M.2 NVMe SSD slots on the bottom allowing up to 4TB x 2 of storage expansion.
Rear panel signal connectivity is extensive. Analog connectivity includes; 1 x XLR and 2 x RCA inputs, 1 x XLR and 1 x RCA outputs, 2 x RCA sub outs. Digital input connectivity includes; 2 x coaxial, 2 x optical, HDMI ARC (for TV audio) and USB (for audio). While digital outputs include; 1 x coaxial, 1 x optical, 1 x USB. Other connections include; 1 x SFP fiber network port, 1 x RJ45 network, 2 x USB 3 for external storage devices and 3.5mm 12VDC trigger I/O.
Finally, control is available using the large front panel touch screen that displays full color album art work, data, signal standards, input and setup menus plus the rotary volume control, the supplied remote that supports both IR and Bluetooth, the built-in UI and mobile app control for iPhone, Android, and iPad devices and the trigger I/O.
MSRP:
- US: $3,680.00
- UK: £3,590.00
- EU: €3,780.00
For more information and full technical specifications visit the Eversolo web site.
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