Rich Inputs and Outputs
DMP-A8 can be used as a digital turntable to connect with various high-end DAC by HDMI IIS, USB, opti- cal, and coaxial outputs. As a DAC, it supports a wide range of digital inputs: 2 coaxial, 2 optical, USB B input to connect PCs and mobile devices. As a high-performance preamplifier, it supports analog inputs XLR and RCA. It also supports APTX HD Bluetooth audio input, making it easy to connect with various dig- ital audio sources. The DMP-A8 can be directly paired with active speakers or power amplifier via analog
preamp outputs RCA and XL. The Trigger out port can achieve the linkage with power amplifier systems.
Flexible Storage Expansion
An M.2 NVMe SSD slot is built in at the bottom of the DMP-A8, allowing for convenient SSD installation without disassembling the device. The DMP-A8 supports SSD up to 4 TB, with faster speed and less noise, providing stable storage for high-quality local music. Additionally, storage devices can be connected externally through the USB OTG port of DMP-A8.
Dual Power Supplies Design
In order to eliminate interference and noise between the system circuit and the audio circuit, and to enhance sound purity, separate designs are employed for the power supply of the system and the audio circuit. The linear power supply is composed of a multi-winding toroidal transformer, specifically designed to match the characteristics of analog audio circuits. The high-quality switching power supply is tailored for the system circuit. It significantly reduces ripple and magnetic leakage interference, providing strong support for high-quality audio processing. Furthermore, it incorporates a patented smart switching technology for the linear power supply voltage input, enabling compatibility with voltages worldwide without flipping switches.
3rd Generation XMOS 316
Audio Interface With 3rd generation XMOS 316 audio processor, DMP-A8 has faster speed and higher USB bandwidth, ensuring the lossless transmission of high-definition audio data, USB ports supports/up to DSDS12 Native and PGM768@32bit. The optical and Coaxial ports support DSD
PCM192@24Bit.
AK4499EX / AK4191EQ Digital-analog
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Dual High-precision Clocks
There are 2 ultra-low phase noise femtosecond high-precision clocks for audio decoding circuit (45.1584MHz and 49.152MHz), which correspond to the decoding of 44.1KHz and 48KHz multiplied sampling rates respectively. This effectively suppresses Jitter, ensuring highly accurate conversion and decoding of digital-to-analog audio signals, providing ultra-high dynamic range and resolution for analog audio output and reproduces the real sound details from music studio.
Fully Balanced Analog Preamplifier Circuit
The DMP-A8 is equipped with a high-performance fully balanced preamplifier function, supporting XLR/R- CA analog inputs. It also features a + 10dB analog gain and, when combined with the R2R analog volume control network, ensures ultra-low noise and distortion for the output.
R2R Volume Control Circuit
A fully balanced analog volume adjustment network composed of precision resistors and relays achieves accurate volume control, effectively suppressing distortion and noise in the analog signal. It also features volume protection, automatically reducing excessive volume to the designated safe level during startup or input interface switching. The incorporation of R2R analog volume control ensures that the DAC can operate at its optimal state continuously.
HDMI-IIS Output
DMP-A8 outfits IIS output, which can connect to DACs with IIS input. The mute levels of different DACs' IIS signals vary, MUTE PIN can be switched by settings. Supporting PCM768K, DSD512 with the highest sampling rate.
HDMI ARC
he DMP-A8, equipped with HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel) input, can be connected to display devices such as TVs and projectors that have HDMI ARC capability. This allows the separation and transfer of audio signals from the HDMI signal to the DMP-A8, providing the TV with a higher quality sound
Handpicked Audio Components
Sound quality of DMP-A8 analog output is monitor-level. The primary elements of the audio circuit are excellent, including WIMA capacitors from Germany, NICHCON dedicated audio capacitors, Murata chip capacitor and Omron relays from Japan, TI Audio Operational Amplifiers from the USA etc. The goal is to provide more authentic and pure sound performance.
Professional Tuning and Outstanding
Analog Audio Performance In order to faithfully reproduce a rich and critical audio quality, we are constantly advancing our technology. Extremely low distortion and noise create a quieter background, making everything clearer.
Flexible and Powerful DSP functionality
DMP-A8 incorporates a robust DSP processor that supports DSP volume control, PEQ, FIR Filter, HPF/LPF, Loudness enhancement, Compressor, and Delay.
Qualcomm QCC5125 Module
The Qualcomm QCC5125 Bluetooth audio receiving module used by the DMP-A8 supports SBC/AAC/aptX/apt LL/aptX HD/LDAC and is compatible with Bluetooth 5.0. Connecting with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops via Bluetooth allows for wonderful music playback experience and CD-quality sound.
Music Services at Your Fingertips
The DMP-A8 incorporates popular music services like TIDAL, Qobuz, HIRESAUDIO, Deezer, Radio Paradise, Amazon Music etc. Taking advantage of numerous high-quality online music services and reveling in the allure of limitless streaming music.
Wireless Music Streaming
As a music streamer, DMP-A8 supports Tidal Connect and DNA and other streaming service, which help streaming music from music streaming app on mobile devices to DMP-A8 in the LAN. So that we could enjoy massive online music in a more convenient way, with excellent lossless sound quality.
Music Library for Local Playback
Eversolo Music Library not only provides excellent local music playback performance but also greatly improves user interest in music management. Music files can be added from a local hard drive or network storage and it automatically retrieves music metadata from the cloud to build a custom music library by matching artists, album covers, CUE file and so on (Due to the use of a third-party database, a 100% match cannot be guaranteed songs are displayed in categories based on genres, albums, artists and sample rates; making a list of your favorite songs and searching for them by album, artist, or song initials.
Multiple Network Protocols
DMP-A8 not only has two high-speed USB 3.0 ports, an SSD slot for local storage expansion, but also supports NFS, SMB v1/v2/v3, and UPnP sharing protocols, allowing users to browse and play multimedia content saved on NAS or network drives connected in the same LAN with gigabit network. Even high data rate DSD512 master recordings can be played without stuttering.
Effective Media Management System
DMP-A8 offers a robust media management system that enables copying, pasting, cutting, deleting files from local hard drive and network storage. USB Type-C port can be configured as USB OTG mode, making it easy to connect PC to DMP-A8 via USB cable for local file copying and management. SMB sharing function allows to share files from connected mobile device or internal SSD to other media playback devices, computers or mobile devices in the LAN. So that DMP-A6 can be used as a network storage device to share audio audio sources at any time.
CD Playback and Ripping
The DMP-A8 allows for CD playback by connecting an external USB optical disc. The CD Rip app adopts data validation mechanism and error correction function to save audio data from CD losslessly. The algorithm intelligently matches CD album and track names (officially released CDs are required), rips tracks and generates album and artist info automatically.
Smart Control App
Android/iPhone/iPad compatible intelligent control apps have been developed for DMP-A8 especially. In addition to basic playback control and local system settings, the app interface can asynchronously view data from the music library, system applications, and menus. It can browse and play built-in streaming services through the control app, making it very convenient for both on-music playback and music data viewing. A remote control with infrared and Bluetooth dual-mode support is also provided. The DMP-A8 also adds a Trigger output, DMP-A8 controls the power-on and standby of the power amplifier, eliminating the need to manually turn on the power supply, enabling multi-device linkage. WOL (Wake on LAN) is also supported to power on and off remotely, it is needed to connect DMP-A8 to wired network.
Digital Filters Meet Different
Personal Preferences The DAC setting of the DMP-A8 provides six digital filters, with different modes corresponding to different sound characteristics, to meet manifold personal preferences.
Personalised WU Meters and Spectrums
A wide range of personalized dynamic VU meters and spectrums are tailormade for audiophiles. A wonderful interactive experience is offered with real-time full-format music display, including DSD.
Hi-Res Audio
The DMP-A8 is Hi-Res Audio certified, endorsed by JAS, with superior sound quality.
