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Long time since I have posted. I recently bought an Eversolo DMP A8 Streamer/DAC/Preamp. I installed in it a 2TB SSD to which I can rip CD's courtesy of a USB 3 computer DVD drive.Now, when I play a CD in my audio Research CD3 (with brand new CD Pro2 drive) connected to the Eversolo by a digital coax, the sound is laughably better than the same CD played from the SSD.
My expectation was that playback from the hard drive and AR CD3 should sound pretty well identical. But they don't. And it's not close.
Can anyone suggest what's happening?
Edits: 05/16/24Follow Ups:
Before loading in and playing any CD, try powering down the player first to clear residual memory retention.
After CD is loaded and toc is read and settled, just press [play] on the front panel. Don't use remote.
April 1st was nearly two months ago.
Edits: 05/29/24
Could it be galvanic isolation issues? I noticed large improvements when I switched internet providers. The new gear had galvanic isolation.
" Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you"
Satchel Paige
ARC CD3 is built like a tank, and the CD2 Pro 2 is a great-sounding transport, a combo difficult to find these days.
YMMV but whenever I hear a comparison among CD vs Local File vs Streaming (provided the music was mastered the same and at same bit/kHz):
CD via a great transport just seems to have an extra liveliness and air. Annoying little things like transport footers, isolation, coax cable make large differences.
Local File is influenced heavily the operating system, playback software, settings, hardware, etc, but in general sounds smoother, softer, rounder comapred to CD. Many audiophiles would prefer this type of sound.
Streaming is also influenced heavily by software, hardware, network but in general seems to hit sort of a middle ground. Enough liveliness and enough roundness, although audio systems tuned already for smoothness will likely sound better via physical CD's spinning.
CDs are ripped to the Eversolo via a USB 3 computer drive connected to the Eversolo. The whole process is controlled by the Eversolo software. The CD files are stored in FLAC format on a 2TB SSD that I installed into the Eversolo (slot provided). During playback the Eversolo reads the FLAC files from the SSD and runs them through the internal DAC. So nothing is read from any network.
The only difference when I use the CD3 is that the digital output from the player is transfered to the Eversolo via a cheap but pretty good 75 ohm coaxial cable.It's then processed by the Eversolo DAC.
The CD3 is indeed built like a tank. But not so the Phillips CD Pro2 drive. Which had failed on my unit. Luckily I managed to source a replacement from China via Ali Express for about one fifth the price I was quoted for repair locally. And it works perfectly.
Jon L gave you pretty good explanation and I want to add that you should use dbpoweramp (a free app) to rip a CD from your computer and then uploaded to the SSD drive on the EverSolo to see if there is any difference in encoding.
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This is good advice. To be clear dBPoweramp is a great app, but it's not free.
Exact Audio Copy (PC) or X Lossless Decoder (Mac) are free and very good but not as versatile or user-friendly as dBP.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
I still only have a CD transport to Dac set up, but have been keeping on eye on the various products such as your's for down the road.
I've seen some products offer different filter settings that can be stored relative to the playback source. Not sure if your Eversolo has that option, but something like that could account for the difference in sound.
Nice stuff! Both the Eversolo and the ARC CD3!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
The Eversolo DMP A8 does indeed have different DAC Filters. And they can be changed on the fly! But you configure these filters per output method. And the CDs played from the Eversolo SSD and through AR CD3, both output to my Jadis DA60 amp from the Eversolo via the same pair RCA Interconnects.
I am very impressed with the Eversolo DMP A8. It sounds great and works extremely well. Superb value in my opinion.
How do you like the combo of using the Eversolo's Dac with your CD3 as a transport?
I ask because I noticed you auditioned some reputable dacs in the past vs the CD3 as a player. (Nice to have a dealer to work with in trying out products!)
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
The combination of the CD3 and Eversolo is stunning. CDs that sound bad still sound bad. But most CDs I have tried sound great.
And streaming sounds superb. Especially hi-res tracks.
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