lol….here I am reading the entire thread trying to make a choice. Clearly a burden of the human condition to stall when too many of them are presented. Choice paradox! So what about compared to a Lumin U2 mini? Or will the A8 still outperform my existing preamp and dac if I simply find an excellent streamer upgrade? They’ve all been toured through on YouTube, but still doesn’t quite get to many of the specific scenarios. Would be so cool if Eversolo would put out a streamer only version of the A8 with those added features. Just not part of their approach and business model it seems…
Not really expecting an answer here, I know I would simply need to try and compare. Imagine that any streamer upgrade alone would make enough of an improvement. Just illustrating the frustration with all of this! I’m going to keep at where I am for a while longer and see what turns up. Thanks to everyone here just the same for clearing up some of the benefits of one vs another.