I'm Streaming Again! Eversolo T8

[mresseguie]

I ordered a T8 about a week ago, and received it a couple days later. It's in my system and playing my Tidal music. It's so nice to be able to stream again. [I had been using an aging (2012) iMAC as my source, but I can no longer update its OS, so that's sitting in a corner doing nothing.] Between my flying off to Taiwan and driving on multi-month roadtrips, I barely even listened to my system.

Anyway, it's in my system and burning in. For now, I'm only using it to stream my saved Tidal lists and favorite musicians.I ordered a 4TB DDR card to place inside my T8 to load a bunch of my HDD based music. I hope to finish setting that up by Sunday or Monday.

I've read that the T8 needs some serious burn-in time (200 to 400 hours!) to sound its best, but I'm barely hitting 30 hrs. I'm delighted to be able to stream again.

[Jack]

Michael

I found the T8 to change pretty significantly over the first 150 or so hours as opposed to right out of the box. I put mine in a secondary system on Radio Paradise and just let it play 24/7 for seven days.  I haven't heard any real change in it after that. No need for anything else to be on. Similar break-in behavior to the Holo DACs.

[Nick B]

I ordered a T8 about a week ago, and received it a couple days later. It's in my system and playing my Tidal music. It's so nice to be able to stream again. [I had been using an aging (2012) iMAC as my source, but I can no longer update its OS, so that's sitting in a corner doing nothing.] Between my flying off to Taiwan and driving on multi-month roadtrips, I barely even listened to my system.

Anyway, it's in my system and burning in. For now, I'm only using it to stream my saved Tidal lists and favorite musicians.I ordered a 4TB DDR card to place inside my T8 to load a bunch of my HDD based music. I hope to finish setting that up by Sunday or Monday.

I've read that the T8 needs some serious burn-in time (200 to 400 hours!) to sound its best, but I'm barely hitting 30 hrs. I'm delighted to be able to stream again.

Michael,
Congrats on getting back into streaming. The Eversolo has gotten a lot of good reviews. I am curious how it compares to my Holo Red which does a great job. Not sure what streamer I'd get if I wanted to upgrade.