Eversolo Play

Firegod · 24 Jun 2025 at 16:46

Hey peeps

Anyone else getting one of these? I've traded in my Bluesound POWERNODE with RS. My local store is getting just 4 units in early July. So I've got one with my name on it.

I'm particularly looking forward to trying it out, especially with the multi-EQ, Smart Bass Management and Room Correction features which the POWERNODE does not have. The screen looks great, which again is something the POWERNODE doesn't have. And of course, the vibrant RGB light ring! Worth it for that alone.

Size wise it is near identical, just a bit deeper.

Here is the site with more info - https://www.eversolo.co.uk/product-range/p/eversolo-play

I've had the POWERNODE for just 2 and a half years now. It has its quirks. Mainly that sometimes when I power it out of sleep I get no sound lol and have to reboot via the app. Oh and the fact it can never be truly powered off (some people may like that).

I'll pop some pictures up hopefully end of next week. It'll be hooked up to my Dali Oberon 1 speakers and the REL HT1003 sub.

I've not had anything by this brand so excited to see how it performs.

Firegod · 4 Jul 2025 at 16:11

Should be here Monday. :cool:

Firegod · 8 Jul 2025 at 16:07

A day late but it has arrived. Amazing.

Absolutely blows the Blusound POWERNODE away (and on paper it has less power). Interface is nice and responsive. Just setup the basics so far (room correction, sub, linked spotify, etc). The app found the device no problem at all, and it is nice how you can also mirror the units screen on to your phone as if you were touching it directly.

Everything sounds clearer and wider. Listening at the moment to mark knopfler local hero and it is just so vibrant. Sax kicks in and get goose bumps man! And earlier I had van halen ice cream man and extreme mutha playing. Guitar work coming through beautifully.

Not fiddled with any EQ or anything, I think it is running a flat curve. Only thing I did was +3db on the bass.

Firegod · 10 Jul 2025 at 12:04

Have noticed one issue. Audio delay / lip sync when using my pc connected via optical. The powernode had a toggle to help with this issue and worked well. Can't find an equivalent setting on the eversolo. Was watching YouTube and it was noticeable. Slight, but once you see it then it can't be unseen lol.

Not too upset by it as it is 99% for music. But it would be a nice to have if fixed. I guess I could always email them and ask.

Firegod · 10 Jul 2025 at 21:43

mrk said:
Why are you using optical from PC? Should be using USB, your PC's optical out is probably adding latency from the onboard soundcard's processing. You can then disable the onboard sound in the BIOS completely.

I dunno lol I just thought that was the best way to connect it being a digitally, lossless input connection.

The usb seems to be for adding a music library like on a drive and for sending out via usb to a DAC. It has a right/left line in and also right/left phono in. Should I use one of those?

Firegod · 10 Jul 2025 at 22:04

mrk said:
Just use USB, the connection can also be used to put music on it I guess if it has onboard storage and stuff but it is a DAC after all and you're going to get the best connection possible via USB. Windows will see it as a sound device and all audio will automatically go out via that. Set input source to USB on the Play.

Ok thanks. Will give it a whirl and report back this weekend.

Firegod · 10 Jul 2025 at 22:23

mrk said:
The level of non-immediacy is somewhat disturbing

Haha netflix and whisky. Plus it's too hot to move.

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 10:44

mrk said:
The level of non-immediacy is somewhat disturbing

Aye so it doesn't work. I have a usb c to usb a cable spare. Plugged it in, went to sources and only sources available are:

Internal Player
Bluetooth
Optical In
Coaxial In
Arc In
Line In
Phono In

Output ports are:
Speaker
Coax
USB DAC

Sad times.

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 10:51

mrk said:
How bizarre that the USB ports can't be used as a DAC, although they do output to something else as a DAC it seems looking at the product page, just not act as USB input.

You do have HDMI Arc though, so could connect a HDMI cable to your GPU and get a digital audio signal that way via Arc In. Remember to set Windows to output via that connection.

I do have a spare HDMI as luck would have it, and I use DP for my monitor so my GPU thankfully has x1 HDMI slot free. Let's see what happens here.

PS really isn't the best day to be messing around under a desk with cables lol.

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:00

Hmm no sound. Tried arc and earc on the amp. Set windows to output via amd high definition audio device (which it then has my monitor name in brackets after) instead of the Realtek digital output. I'll try a reboot.

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:06

Urgh sounds like I have to go GPU HDMI > Monitor > DAC? Might be expecting a handshake from the monitor.

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:11

I might just use line in R L instead. No digital buffering or latency with analogue. Or I get some sort of HDMI audio splitter (if that exists?).

Firegod · 11 Jul 2025 at 12:31

mrk said:
Should be fine with RCA, analogue noise floor on modern stuff should be inaudible anyway

Sweet.

Firegod · 15 Jul 2025 at 17:56

3.5mm to RCA cable arrived today. And... still have audio / lip sync issues when watching YouTube. In fact they seem worse than before! :cry:

Music is spot on still.

Firegod · 15 Jul 2025 at 18:06

Tried disabling all windows enhancements and spaitial audio settings. Set output format to 16-bit 48kHz. Tried with the room correction EQ on and off. No difference.

I've fed it back to Eversolo support.

Firegod · 15 Jul 2025 at 18:27

mrk said:
Is there a direct mode on it, like bypass? Something is adding latency

Can't see one

I tried disabling the EOS audio engine. Made no difference.

Only other thing I have to try is to remove the Nahimic Companion app on the PC?

Firegod · 15 Jul 2025 at 18:59

Nahimic removed along with DTS Sound Unbound. No change. Does feel like an amp issue and not a "me" issue lol.

Firegod · 16 Jul 2025 at 15:24

An update.

Eversolo support have said that "this may be caused by decoding time requirements, leading to audio-video desynchronization during playback. The resolution isn't available at this time, but we've reported this to our R&D team."

I'm not really happy with that, especially as there is no time frame for a fix. Given the connectivity options exist I am disappointed this was never picked up or considered. I appreciate though that the streamer is probably aimed more at music than video. But it isn't out of the realm of possible usage.

Richer Sounds are amazing though as always. Going to let me try a WiiM Amp for connectivity to my PC. If there is no latency issues with that, the plan is to give the WiiM Amp back and the Eversolo Play. I'll then go with the WiiM Amp Pro and attach separately the WiiM Ultra for streaming. I can then just choose the source from the WiiM Amp Pro if I want to use it for my PC or flick it over for the music and streaming side of things.

I will get the WiiM Amp to test with on Friday.

Fingers crossed.

Firegod · 16 Jul 2025 at 15:42

Thanks both. Are the WiiM Amp Pro and WiiM Ultra solid choices? Getting ahead of myself I know but I've skimmed the spec's and they seem good!

Firegod · 17 Jul 2025 at 10:25

mid_gen said:
I use a Wiim Pro Plus as a DAC for my TV and don't get any latency issues.

Thanks that's great. I did log a support ticket also with WiiM and they say there is a 50ms delay but that it shouldn't be noticeable and it can't be changed.