Eversolo's sleek streamer looks like Apple TV on steroids – it even has its own amp

Don't let the small size fool you, this music streamer is seriously powerful

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The Eversolo Play music streamer is also a DAC, a network music player and an amp – and if you go for the CD Edition, it's got a CD-ROM drive too.

It starts at €699 (about £586 / $791 / AU$1,227) and will be available to buy soon.

It may look rather like an Apple TV 4K box, but Eversolo's new streamer isn't a rival streaming device for video.

Instead, the Eversolo Play is a pocket-sized, 3-in-1 audio powerhouse with wireless music streaming, a DAC and an amplifier in a single, super compact box.

It's designed as a complete digital music solution and would work particularly well with bookshelf speakers. Certainly, with 60W output at 8 ohms and 110W at 4 ohms, it's got plenty of power for pristine performance.

Eversolo Play music streaming box

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There's lots to like here, including a whole stack of connectivity options.

There's multiroom configuration, it's Roon Ready and supports Qobuz Connect and TIDAL Connect, and you get room correction for good measure. There's even a song recommendation feature called "Listen at Will" that apparently "breaks the algorithmic filter bubble".

Cleverly, it pulls music from both your local library and your logged-in music streamers too.

Eversolo Play music streaming box

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Eversolo Play streaming amplifier: key features and pricing

The Play comes with support for a good selection of streaming services including Tidal, Qobuz, Idagio, Amazon Music, TuneIn Radio, Presto Music, KKBOX, Radio Paradise and Deezer. However, it's not just a streamer, it's a network music player too. And an amp.

The Eversolo Play features the AK4493 DAC chip and enables you to get audio from all kinds of places – from local NAS or cloud storage, a turntable, over USB 3.0, via optical or coax, or via HDMI ARC.

And if you opt for the CD edition, there's even a CD transport with advanced error correction for ageing discs.

Eversolo Play music streaming box

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The body is made from aluminium alloy and it sits on a large heat sink to keep everything cool, and in addition to the obligatory app, there's a bright 5.5-inch colour touchscreen with a very clear and sensible user interface.

There's also an RGB light ring that changes colour according to the genre of music you're listening to, and old-school VU meters so you can watch playback (of sorts) as well as listen.

The Eversolo Play is €699 (about £586 / $791 / AU$1,227), while the Eversolo Play CD Edition is €799 (about £670 / $905 / AU$1,403).

Both will be available to buy through Amazon in the EU and US. We're still awaiting UK retail announcements.

Carrie Marshall
Carrie Marshall

Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).

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