Packed up temporarily, although I have been musing sometimes about downsizing to a Lina or Rossini. We’ll see.
Have you considered a Vivaldi One Apex?
Not yet, need to see once we have moved what the setup will be, and more importantly how the new room will sound.
I was even contemplating selling some audio from home as it might fit in with my interests and the new home could lend itself to some demoing.
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Having demoed several Streaming Transports, over the past few weeks, including the Innuos Steam 3 (£6,000) and Zen Next Generation (£10,500). I have finally settled on a Eversolo T8.
At £1,287 it’s excellent value for money and sounds exactly the same as the two Innuos Transports.
It has a screen, but it can dimmed down, or turned off. It can hold 16 TB of storage, with M.2 SSDs. The app is slick and fast.
At the moment I am using USB, which sounds great. I’ll try the other outputs in due course.
A bit of cable dressing is required, and I’ll also demo a few other cables.
This goes to show what many have said, (And I thank you dearly for that) there is no need to spend mega amounts of cash on a Streamer.
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David, just for clarity, with reference to your past postings are you referring to the Eversolo in regard to its role as NAS ( UPnp) or streaming from other sources as well?
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Hi David I see you went with my suggestion. I also feel for the money you can’t really go wrong.
Now plug in an AES cable and get rid of the USB.
Also please compare it to the bartok built in streamer when you find the time. Also as you had a melco, and I guess you had it backed up on a drive? If so have you transferred it over to the eversolo? Does it even work if you do? And if so was it easy, etc.
Cheers dunc
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What he said
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While we are at it - @Merlot52 and @Dunc
Is TRACK Audio, the company that manufactures the spikes for Kudos speakers (as seen in David’s photo) still in business? Last year I sent multiple emails to them with no reply. I also saw an online seller indicate all of their products are currently unavailable.
I would love to find out if they are still active and doing business
Hi Gregg
I believe so and just looked and it came up as open.
If you want anything doing let me know i will try and contact them for you. Or if you want anything I am willing to get it and send it over time you.
Cheers dunc
Hi Dunc
Thanks for the reply. I actually just tried to ring them up and was finally able to speak with the owner (I had emailed back in October with no reply). Very helpful on the phone however he did confirm they are winding down activities. He is going to have a look at my email and images and see if he has anything which may work.
Thanks!
Glad to hear you got through to them, shame to hear that they are winding things down
Congratulations David - I really love the simplicity of your system - 3 boxes , less cluttered .. as others have said , i would also be interested to know how the bartok internal streaming board compares to the eversolo .
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Hi Pete
To confirm…The Eversolo T8 is a Streaming Transport. With SSD storage.
My Bartók will act purely as DAC connected by USB/ SPIDF.
No Gregg they are not. The company was split in two. The person that had the Isolation feet and spike part, has gone out of business. The other part, which I think, makes medical equipment, is still going.
Apparently, the person named as Helen, never replied to order requests from dealers. And she didn’t reply to me either!
Were you wanting some? You can have mine if you want…For a price!
Are you therefore saying that you find the Eversolo preferable to Bartok for all streaming ( other than its file storage capability)?
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Are we going to re open that debate?…Okay let’s do it!
Joking aside, I was about to order a Audioquest Cinnamon & Carbon. See which one was best and send the other back.
I know sweet FA about AES. Tell me all about it
The Streaming board on the Bartók is very good, but connecting a USB SSD with 300GB of file is a non starter. Whereas, the T8 has room for 16 TB! And very, very nice slick app.
The Jury is out on that one Pete. Reason being, I will be experimenting with various cables over the next few weeks.
The T8 has SFP as well as Ethernet. So Fibre/Ethernet could be something to try too.
Not yet, I haven’t bought the drive yet. The M.2 SSDs are mega money, much more than 2.5 SATA SSD.
I look forward to hearing your experience.
AES and S/Pdif use the same protocol ( AES3). However the AES/EBU connection , if properly executed at both ends, offers the potential of a lower noise floor as it is a differentially balanced connection ( look this up and Common Mode Rejection Ratio ).
An amended version using dual AES wires was devised to overcome the original bandwidth limitation of 24/96. This modification stems from dCS who required wider bandwidth, hence dual AES is available on most ( all except Varaese?) models and is needed to support the highest data rates though the limits partly depend on the model in use ( see specifications).
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