Comparing Aurender N20 vs eversolo dmp A8

Thanks @saurabhgarg for sharing your findings with us. This is great to hear.

If you have a component using LPS, it sounds like a waste of money to add a costly power cable. 

As for the component improvement, it seems more the type of connection matters and can be superior depending on that individual product than throwing money at one type of connection. If one connection is superior to the USB connection on a product, that's the information to utilize. 

That's my two cents there. 

Romanesque you know little about digital . I owned a Audio store for years.

pits pretty simple ,digital travels from home to home Ungrounded, bringing in Noise,

that $5 wall wart that comes with the router is pure junk $2 worth of parts it just adds additional noise to the circuit. A Linear power supply stops that noise and distributes it much cleaner ,that is a fact ,it can be measured and well as easy to hear. Then get a Quality digital hub or ditch at minim7m the $600 LHY,SW-8

and both need a decent quality power cord ,why ? The the power cord is a filter it shields ,filters noise before going into electronics. If this were not so ,no one would 

be using a LPS power supply, or buying $1,000s of dollars in aftermarket power cords. You do as you please it’s your $$ ,I doubt 1,0000s of Audiophiles are wrong 99%  of Audiophiles use upgraded power cords ,depending too on their budget.

I go to many Audio gatherings per year and they all have similar items .

a top quality Ethernet hub can cost over $5k and night and day better sound Ansuz from Denmark. D2 my brother has with their Ethernet cables , line conditioner ,takes you to another league in streaming the. Only drawback is the $$ which is not cheap,

I also have the N20 which replaced an N200

I tried USB, and AES connections - and then it was recommended that using the Optical (toslink) connection may be optimal with a Chord DAVE DAC.  This provided a HUGE sonic benefit.  It’s much more transparent with much better high frequency accuracy and much more air to the sound.  
 

The cable is a ten dollar optical cable from Amazon.  This sounded significantly better than an a much more expensive AES cable that was tried, and  better than the USB cable.  
This leads me to believe that selecting the right connection type to your DAC maters quite a bit.  (Full disclosure:  I do believe in the benefits of better/more expensive cabling - in this case the optical cable happens to be cheap). 

IME everything in a digital source chain right up to the DAC is important, cables too. Also the differences between an N20 and A8 will become more appreciable the more high-end all the rest of the system components are.

That being said I think for most folks in most systems an A8 is all that is needed, a great product at an even better price.

I have a Lumin P1/L2 combo and the fiber optic connection has been a big sonic upgrade, so back to cabling, major sonic upgrades can be had without buying new components.

The DMP-A8 truly is amazing for the money. I preferred it's analog outputs to the Octo 8 Stereo DAC (Stereophile Class A) but I prefer the PS Audio Perfect Wave Direct Stream to either. It just sounds more dynamic and real. I use the I2S out from the A8 to the DAC.

I already stream from Roon through the DMP-A8 and it works just fine. I guess maybe what you get when it becomes "Roon Ready" is album art and track info on the front screen. Idk.

The only streamer I would possibly trade the A8 for would be the HifiRose RS130.