The Play CD Edition sits at the top of EverSolo's Play series, the brand's first range of all-in-one streaming amplifiers. It brings together a network streamer, an AK4493SEQ DAC, an MM/MC phono stage, a Class D power amplifier and an integrated CD drive in a single compact chassis, intended as a complete "just add speakers" system. The CD Edition adds an optical disc mechanism that the standard Play omits.
Streaming and Control
The Play series connects directly to TIDAL, Qobuz, Amazon Music, IDAGIO, Deezer, TuneIn, Presto and other services for lossless and high-resolution playback without additional hardware. It is Roon Ready and supports TIDAL Connect and Qobuz Connect, so material can be sent straight from those apps. A 5.5-inch LCD touchscreen on the front handles browsing, favouriting and playback directly on the unit, while the EverSolo Control app for iOS, Android and iPad provides full remote control. Multi-room playback allows several Play units to be linked for synchronised listening across different rooms.
CD Playback
The CD Edition integrates an original Hitachi-LG optical CD-ROM assembly mounted in a vibration-dampening chassis, which reduces operational resonance and helps maintain stable disc rotation. Proprietary error-correction handling improves compatibility with scratched or worn discs, and a built-in CD ripping function lets you copy tracks from disc to the device's internal storage.
Amplification and Sound
A high-performance Class D amplifier delivers 60W per channel into 8 ohms and 110W per channel into 4 ohms using Texas Instruments PurePath Ultra HD technology, with total harmonic distortion held below 0.0037% at 5W into 1kHz. The AK4493SEQ DAC with VELVETSOUND processing supports PCM up to 768kHz/32-bit and native DSD up to DSD512. A 15-band graphic equaliser and 10-band parametric equaliser with 23 genre presets, along with room correction using a phone or external measurement microphone, allow the sound to be tailored to the room and to personal taste.
Connections
The rear panel carries HDMI ARC for television sound, optical and coaxial digital inputs, a coaxial digital output, a line-level RCA input, a dedicated MM/MC phono input with its own ground terminal, and a mono subwoofer output with bass management in the app. Two USB 3.0 ports handle storage and USB media, a Gigabit Ethernet port and built-in Wi-Fi cover networking, and gold-plated speaker binding posts connect a pair of passive loudspeakers. Network features include UPnP and WebDAV access to NAS and computer libraries and Wake-on-LAN.
Construction
The Play CD Edition is built into a CNC-machined aluminium unibody that shields internal circuitry and supports signal integrity, with a full-coverage heat sink to stabilise internal temperatures. A PFC and LLC power supply with NTC thermistors manages efficiency and component protection.