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Eversolo DMP-A6 Gen 2

The most complete streamer under a grand, by most reviewers' count. The first batch of linear power supplies is its asterisk.

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$859Typical US price

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Eversolo DMP-A6 Gen 2

The short version

What to know.

A streaming DAC/preamp with an unusually wide feature set for its price and a touchscreen and app that most reviewers rank among the best they have used. Sources broadly agree it decodes cleanly: the nearest benches (the first-generation A6 and the Gen 2 Master Edition) measure well past audibility, and a level-matched comparison with Bluesound's Node ICON found only slight differences. Listeners split on its character — most hear it as neutral, a sizeable group as analytical or hard-edged, a few as slightly warm. Build splits along a different line: reviewers admire the chassis, while dozens of owners report early-production units whose linear power supply failed, a fault Eversolo acknowledges and repairs free. Gaps that recur: no remote in the box, no Chromecast or AirPlay 2, no subwoofer output, and EQ that only works on the internal streamer.

About this product

The 2025 second-generation Standard Edition, in black. Not the 2023 original DMP-A6 (switch-mode supply, USB-C input, no HDMI ARC, trigger or Wake-on-LAN), and not the DMP-A6 Master Edition Gen 2, which adds femtosecond clocks and OPA1612 output op-amps for about $440 more.

Eversolo, a hi-fi brand backed by the Chinese media-player maker Zidoo, made its name in 2023 with the DMP-A6: a half-width aluminium box with a six-inch touchscreen that streams from nearly every service, plays files from an internal SSD, and decodes through two ESS ES9038Q2M chips to balanced and single-ended outputs with a volume control. The Gen 2, announced at the turn of 2025 and sold at $859, keeps that formula and adds a linear power supply, an HDMI ARC input for a TV, a 12 V trigger, Wake-on-LAN and a USB-B input in place of USB-C.

It is the streamer most often recommended between the WiiM Ultra below it and Bluesound's Node ICON beside it. It has also become the subject of a long-running owners' thread about early units that stopped switching on.

A good fit for

  • Turning an integrated amp or power amp into a full streaming system with one box
  • Anyone who wants the TV, a local music library and every streaming service on one touchscreen
  • Apple Music listeners who want to run the service on the box itself rather than cast it from a phone

Think twice if

  • You need a remote in the box, Chromecast, AirPlay 2 multiroom or a subwoofer output
  • Your system already leans bright or lean and you would mostly use its analog outputs
  • You already own a first-generation DMP-A6
  • You want EQ or room correction on your TV or other digital inputs, not just the built-in streamer

The reviewer consensus

Agreement &
disagreement.

2 / 6topics divide opinion
noisefeaturesergonomicsvaluetransparencybuild
4 Mostly agree2 Divided opinions

Common ground4

  • The widest feature set in a streamer at this price: HDMI ARC in, multichannel HDMI out, an internal SSD bay, CD ripping, Roon Ready and extensive EQ
  • The touchscreen and app are among the best streamer interfaces available
  • It decodes cleanly — the nearest benches measure far past audibility

Points of contention2

  • Sound character: neutral and transparent to most, analytical or hard-edged to some, slightly warm to a few — tracking output (XLR vs RCA), filter and partnering amp
  • Build: reviewers praise the chassis, while dozens of owners report early-production power supplies that failed, a fault Eversolo acknowledges

A closer listen.

6 topics · 2 divided
Left: criticalRight: positiveTighter lines: more agreement

Transparency

PositiveDivided opinions
Reviewer sentiment14 supporting sources
CriticalNeutralPositive

Band: opinion spread · Dot: weighted average

Sources split three ways. The largest group hears a clean, neutral DAC with little to separate it from good rivals. A second group hears it as detailed but analytical — clinical, hard or short on musicality, especially against a warm system. A smaller group hears it as neutral-to-warm.

Measured

No lab has published a bench of the standard Gen 2. ASR's bench of the first-generation A6, which uses the same two ES9038Q2M chips and OPA1642 output stage, measured about 117 dB SINAD from XLR at 4 V and about 115 dB from RCA at 2 V — 'audible transparency' by its yardstick, with weak ultrasonic filter attenuation. Stereophile's bench of the Gen 2 Master Edition sibling found the third harmonic at -117 dB, about 21 bits of resolution and clean jitter. Eversolo specifies THD+N below 0.00009% (-120 dB) from XLR.

vs. listeners — The benches put distortion and noise far below audibility, so the clinical-versus-warm split is not something the numbers show. Three physical differences line up with it: output (RCA runs at half the XLR level and measured about 2 dB worse on the Gen 1; Headfonics heard RCA as 'more muffled and rolled-off'), the seven digital filters (on Stereophile's Master Edition bench the Slow filters are 3 dB down at 20 kHz and the Hybrid 9 dB down with 44.1 kHz material), and the partnering amplifier — Hifi Pig preferred it into valves, and Twoja Rzecz found it too hard with his own amp but tempered by a warm Unison Research one.

Where it splits
clean and neutral — little to choose between it and good rivals54%

“Run the DMP-A6 Gen 2 and Node ICON as level matched Roon Endpoints into the Doshi and Linn combo and the differences are... rather slight.”

Ed Selley, AVForums
detailed but analytical — clinical or hard, light on musicality31%

“It worked well into both tube and solid-state amplifiers, though I felt it better on the former, which effectively toned down some of the slight clinical nature of the beast.”

Janine Elliot, Hifi Pig
neutral-to-warm and easy to listen to15%

“Overall, it is on the neutral-warm side with good clarity and openness.”

James, Headfonics
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The hardware

Specifications.

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Design

Form factor
Desktop
DAC
ESS ES9038Q2M ×2 · Delta-sigma
PCM
768 kHz / 32-bit
DSD
DSD512
MQA
Yes

Output

Signal-to-noise
≥ 128 dB

Connection

Digital inputs
USB-B, Optical, Coaxial, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Wi-Fi
Line outputs
XLR, RCA, Optical, Coaxialvariable (preamp)
Preamp output
Yes
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.0SBC, AAC
Power
Mains (internal PSU)

Also has an HDMI ARC input (PCM to 192 kHz), an HDMI output for multichannel PCM and native DSD64 up to 5.1, a USB audio output, two USB-A 3.0 ports and an M.2 NVMe slot. SNR is the balanced output's (>124 dB from RCA). Line outputs: 5.2 V balanced, 2.6 V single-ended. Manufacturer-published figures, not measurements · from eversolo.com.

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Limitations & method.

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What to keep in mind 5

  1. A read of where reviewers and owners stand as of October 2026. Eversolo updates the software often, so app behaviour and features keep changing.

  2. No lab has yet published measurements of this exact model; the measured picture comes from its first-generation predecessor and its Master Edition sibling, which share the same converter chips.

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