Eversolo DMP-A6 Streamer Review

[Winemaker]

This is the graph of my listening room, after calibration using the Samsung S23 Ultra phone microphone.

 

[staticV3]

This is the graph of my listening room, after calibration using the Samsung S23 Ultra phone microphone.View attachment 463080

 

[mlilliman]

Hi all. I've owned the DMP-A6 for just over a year and have always respected the design and functionality, but not really loved the sound. My room is approx 5.5m x 3.3m and my stereo speakers are along the long wall firing across the narrow part of the room. As such, the speakers are just 40cm from the rear wall. My listening position is on a large sofa opposite. I'd describe the sound as clean, a little glassy at the top, and lacking warmth (upper mid bass).

Throughout my ownership, Eversolo have continuously upgraded the firmware. Given v2 of this product is now available, I was pleasantly surprised the other day to see the DMP-A6 alert me to another update available for download. This update has delivered room correction, no less!

From day 1, end users have always had EQ settings to shape the sound to their tastes, and several months later, PEQ was also provided. I didn't have much joy adjusting these manually and wasn't invested enough in the product to purchase a microphone and use REW with a computer to set the PEQ accordingly. However, the room correction option enables the use of the microphone on your smartphone, so I gave it a try.

The DMP-A6 generates two 20Hz - 20kHz sweeps of white noise, and then analyses your room response and prepares left and right FIR filters to negate the peaks and troughs in the frequency range. The results were so encouraging with just my iPhone 16, that I purchased Eversolo's calibrated measurement microphone and today, have run a fresh sweep. All I can say is wow, I had no idea the FIR filters would make such a difference. I have a full range of bass without it being overdone, and the adjustments have removed (flattened?) whatever was bothering me in the upper registers. I'm turning the amp louder and louder with a dumb smile on my face haha.

The DMP-A6 was a great product a year ago without any of the improvements and feature additions. To provide this level of support and development to their entry product is just incredible.

 

[Salt]

Hi all. I've owned the DMP-A6 for just over a year and have always respected the design and functionality, but not really loved the sound. My room is approx 5.5m x 3.3m and my stereo speakers are along the long wall firing across the narrow part of the room. As such, the speakers are just 40cm from the rear wall. My listening position is on a large sofa opposite. I'd describe the sound as clean, a little glassy at the top, and lacking warmth (upper mid bass).

Throughout my ownership, Eversolo have continuously upgraded the firmware. Given v2 of this product is now available, I was pleasantly surprised the other day to see the DMP-A6 alert me to another update available for download. This update has delivered room correction, no less!

From day 1, end users have always had EQ settings to shape the sound to their tastes, and several months later, PEQ was also provided. I didn't have much joy adjusting these manually and wasn't invested enough in the product to purchase a microphone and use REW with a computer to set the PEQ accordingly. However, the room correction option enables the use of the microphone on your smartphone, so I gave it a try.

The DMP-A6 generates two 20Hz - 20kHz sweeps of white noise, and then analyses your room response and prepares left and right FIR filters to negate the peaks and troughs in the frequency range. The results were so encouraging with just my iPhone 16, that I purchased Eversolo's calibrated measurement microphone and today, have run a fresh sweep. All I can say is wow, I had no idea the FIR filters would make such a difference. I have a full range of bass without it being overdone, and the adjustments have removed (flattened?) whatever was bothering me in the upper registers. I'm turning the amp louder and louder with a dumb smile on my face haha.

The DMP-A6 was a great product a year ago without any of the improvements and feature additions. To provide this level of support and development to their entry product is just incredible.

That's the way it goes: choose a fully transparent item, EQ it to your needs, and you're done.

 

[sjf24]

Hi all. I've owned the DMP-A6 for just over a year and have always respected the design and functionality, but not really loved the sound. My room is approx 5.5m x 3.3m and my stereo speakers are along the long wall firing across the narrow part of the room. As such, the speakers are just 40cm from the rear wall. My listening position is on a large sofa opposite. I'd describe the sound as clean, a little glassy at the top, and lacking warmth (upper mid bass).

Throughout my ownership, Eversolo have continuously upgraded the firmware. Given v2 of this product is now available, I was pleasantly surprised the other day to see the DMP-A6 alert me to another update available for download. This update has delivered room correction, no less!

From day 1, end users have always had EQ settings to shape the sound to their tastes, and several months later, PEQ was also provided. I didn't have much joy adjusting these manually and wasn't invested enough in the product to purchase a microphone and use REW with a computer to set the PEQ accordingly. However, the room correction option enables the use of the microphone on your smartphone, so I gave it a try.

The DMP-A6 generates two 20Hz - 20kHz sweeps of white noise, and then analyses your room response and prepares left and right FIR filters to negate the peaks and troughs in the frequency range. The results were so encouraging with just my iPhone 16, that I purchased Eversolo's calibrated measurement microphone and today, have run a fresh sweep. All I can say is wow, I had no idea the FIR filters would make such a difference. I have a full range of bass without it being overdone, and the adjustments have removed (flattened?) whatever was bothering me in the upper registers. I'm turning the amp louder and louder with a dumb smile on my face haha.

The DMP-A6 was a great product a year ago without any of the improvements and feature additions. To provide this level of support and development to their entry product is just incredible.

Completely agree. Great product made even better with this update.

Looking forward to getting around to a REW-generated FIR filter when I have time, which would allow me to target to Toole or Harmon curve. (Eversolo's self-generated FIR only allows one measurement position and a flat target or a practically flat target with some roll off in very high frequency, @staticV3, but wouldn't be surprised if they update this since it should be low-lying fruit. REW FIRs will surely be spectacular until then, or better even then.)

 

[Nutul]

It would be great to have a "one-tool-fit-all", but as a matter of fact, all the research and time behind some specific tools make them great, and if not impossible, at least a bit hard to replace / substitute. REW is, so far, one of those, and pretending, or even willing Eversolo to provide you with such a powerful tool in their devices is, IMHO, a bit too pretentious.
There are tools for such a purpose. Use them. It's already great that Eversolo allows you to import / integrate / use such third-party generated FIRs at no additional cost.

 

[muchacho]

Hi, I'm just observing the discussion about the Eversolo DMP-A6 (otherwise I have a WiiM Pro and Pro Plus), but in some short customer review I read a mention that the room correction only works for streaming services, but NOT for other digital inputs (USB, SPDIF optical and COAX and HDMI ARC for Gen.2). Can you confirm or deny this? And I'd also like to know if I play DSD (or SACD ISO) from an SSD or USB input on the DMP-A6, is the USB output (to an external USB DAC) playing DSD Native, DoP, or is there a conversion to PCM (as WiiM does..)? I would like to have the Bit-perfect mode maintained throughout the chain (as transport)! But sometimes not, because the room acoustics correction is not Bit-perfect... The answers to these questions helped me a lot in making a purchase decision.

 

[yllanos]

@mirror88 Do you have any plans to support Apple TV? I'd like to be able to view album art and control playback from my TV. This is the single feature not letting me switch completely from WiiM devices.

Thanks

 

[Alexx]

Sorry, I already asked, but I'm not sure if this is possible or not.

I'm asking again if it's possible to connect an active subwoofer to the Eversolo DMP A6 Gen2.

I see it has RCA and XLR outputs. Can I connect the subwoofer to the RCA outputs, and connect it to the XLR outputs to the power amplifier?

I just don't know if both outputs can work together.

Not even the dealers can answer this.

Thanks in advance.

 

[staticV3]

Sorry, I already asked, but I'm not sure if this is possible or not.

I'm asking again if it's possible to connect an active subwoofer to the Eversolo DMP A6 Gen2.

I see it has RCA and XLR outputs. Can I connect the subwoofer to the RCA outputs, and connect it to the XLR outputs to the power amplifier?

I just don't know if both outputs can work together.

Not even the dealers can answer this.

Thanks in advance.

Page 16 of the User Manual shows "Output port: XLR, RCA, XLR/RCA"

meaning that you can output audio via either, or via both.

 

[Salt]

Sorry, I already asked, but I'm not sure if this is possible or not.

I'm asking again if it's possible to connect an active subwoofer to the Eversolo DMP A6 Gen2.

I see it has RCA and XLR outputs. Can I connect the subwoofer to the RCA outputs, and connect it to the XLR outputs to the power amplifier?

I just don't know if both outputs can work together.

Not even the dealers can answer this.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, in the menue you can select XLR or XLR/RCA output. Should work with a sub with it's own DSP/LP. Does not work as filter/xover.

 

[Alexx]

@staticV3
Thanks so much, good news.

I'll probably replace it with the Wii U Ultra. I think the Eversolo is better quality.

@Salt
Excellent. For the subwoofer, I use its crossover; it has frequency, volume, phase adjustment, and various preset filters.
See you soon.

 

[staticV3]

I'll probably replace it with the Wii U Ultra. I think the Eversolo is better quality.

DACs are equally transparent on both units and both support bit-exact streaming.

No subwoofer integration on the A6 is a real downgrade though.

 

[Snoopy]

DACs are equally transparent on both units and both support bit-exact streaming.

No subwoofer integration on the A6 is a real downgrade though.

Im waiting for the Onkyo P80.. dual subwoofer out, Dirac ART , hdmi , roon , akm chip , XLR etc ..

 

[dscottj]

Just wanted to give a shout-out to @mirror88 and the rest of the Eversolo team for their April 1.4.32 update! I have been putting up with "12. Fixed occasional issue with DLNA replaying the last track repeatedly" for the past two years. Except it wasn't occasional, it was always. It's so nice to not have to watch for the last track to push it to the next album or make it stop. I only got the update (along with the rest of them) last week when a blackout forced the box to reboot, but now that it's fixed it's so much better. Thanks!

 

[PlanAvi]

@amirm hello sir

“
Eversolo DMP-A6 Measurements
Output goes up to 6+ volts so I dialed that down to 4 volts for the measurements (-2 dB). Let's start with our dashboard using USB-C input and XLR out:”

Where can I make this adjustment? Do you mean by lowering the volume by -2 db or using the EQ?

 

[ExPerfectionist]

I believe the EQ setting screen has an overall "level" adjustment as well.

 

[Salt]

For overall volume you might use the volume knob (and disable the pass through if enabled) .

 

[PlanAvi]

The two settings produce different results. Frankly, I haven't figured out how to get 4V RMS. My amplifier is an Accuphase e-5000.

 

[Calypso1]

The two settings produce different results. Frankly, I haven't figured out how to get 4V RMS. My amplifier is an Accuphase e-5000.

XLR