Measurement data I’ve seen online for this setup driving a number of different DACs shows that TOSLINK isn’t necessarily the lower noise method of interconnection and depending on the DAC used the jitter in the recovered clock can be greater or lesser with either of the interfaces.As usual, the only way to decide which is better is to see it you can hear the difference. Having used my RPi3+Digi+ Pro for the last couple of years very successfully as (at various times) a Plex and Volumio client, I'm in the process of moving the entire house (various 'legacy' systems) to support high-quality (lossless, hi-res & MQA). IMHO, there is really no need for MQA as a lot of the existing formats already provide MUCH higher bandwidth than the human ear can perceive.I possibly wasn’t clear: I’m not necessarily looking for a cheap option: what I am looking for is the best value (and preferably self-build) for the highest possible sound quality. No commercial magazine will ever publish this type of article, thanks a lot for your work, so much appreciated Thank you for sharing your data. For this purpose, I feel a Raspberry Pi with a Hifiberry Digi+ Pro running Volumio should be sufficient.
Uncompressed CD quality music has a bit rate of 1.35 Mbits/S and 24bit/96kHz masters about 4x that. Powered by A 'more objective' take on audiophile topics among other thoughts... At the time of this publication (February 2019), I probably went through a dozen Linux distributions, using the PI as a source for my … I really enjoy reading your articles. Raspberry PI als Streaming Client Stephan_70 am 27.04.2014 – Letzte Antwort am 15.05.2014 – 8 Beiträge : Raspberry pi Netzwerk Player/amp Headhunter456 am 14.12.2019 – Letzte Antwort am 04.01.2020 – 10 Beiträge : Stromversorgung des Raspberry pi 3b+ samt Boss DAC 1.2 Do you think it would be worthwhile for me to move my media from one of the RPi USB ports over to a network device? But I don't see myself needing to use these features such as Tidal MQA … Some DACs are better at clock recovery than others and so this is where you should invest more time and money. Is it a Pi 3 with one of the common packages like Volumio, RuneAudio, Archphile or is this a generic install you have of MPD?Just swapped over a config file from a piCorePlayer setup with your tweaks over to a Max2Play setup seems to work okThat's great. Very insightful and relevant. What do you think about the below settings?How'd it go? But I'd love to see it proved. I am able to stream FLAC 24/192 stored on the core machine without any audio skipping. I’m intrigued by MQA and first want to build a test system that I can use to decide if it does represent a step forward in sound quality. This is a buffer that intends to re lock the i2s signal.+1. For example a PC with a TIDAL HiFi trial subscription will decode MQA files to a maximum of 24bit/48kHz, which is an improvement on the typically 16 bit compressed audio that you’d have previously experienced via standard TIDAL or Spotify services. Typically this means buffering the streamed audio data received over the internet and very carefully transferring it to the DAC used to render the decoded and rendered MQA audio image. Excellent blob posting. Anyone else share the same outcome?Any value to doing the CRAAP or other tweaks on the pi 4? The main reason for this is to be able to benefit from MQA encoded music. It's running ropieee. The main reason for this is to be able to benefit from MQA encoded music. The Dig HAT employs a WM8804GEDS S/PDIF interface chip and crystal oscillator to adapt the I2S audio stream from the Pi to the TOSLINk and Coaxial outputs. In the post above, we had showed an easy way for you to play Tidal on Raspberry Pi with the help of AudFree Tidal Music Converter.