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Post by chris1967 on Apr 27, 2015 17:07:51 GMT
yes no problem, but SSD is much smaller than normal mechanical disks, so less music fits
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Post by gilbodavid on Apr 28, 2015 13:22:50 GMT
Chris. hi all sounds very interesting to me. I am using an iqaudio dac on a pib+. I have been amazed at its quality compared to a £2000 cd player i have.
I am interested in your setup but do not understand it as i am not very technically endowed...
Would you explain the various components of your dacs and how they fit together. I would be interested in trying one with the pi2
Thank you David
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Post by chris1967 on Apr 30, 2015 7:44:03 GMT
Since you are already using RpiB+ and iqauio dac, i assume you are familiar with the connectivity and utility of the Pi.
In my case i connect my dacs via usb on the RPi2, external powered disks also on the usb and my NAS music storage thru ethernet cable. On the Rpi2 i use TCmods MoOde software.
In order to have enough and stable power i am powering the Rpi2 with linear power supply.
Dac is connected to the hifi system normally via interconnects.
At the moment i am using two diy dacs (JLSounds AKM4396/JLSounds USB receiver and Soekris sign magnitude r2r dac/DIYInhk usb receiver) but i have listened thru the above setup extensively many others including the magnificent Rockna Wavedream.
CD players are unfortunately inferior to digital music files, due to the problem of digital extraction from the disk in real time, some do have large buffers but you always have information lost from the reading of the disk, even very expensive modern designs have inferior extraction.
So this is the reason why you hear nice music from the Pi setup, plus one other very important thing.
Computers that handle music files usually do other things as well, many other things. The Pi does only one thing, just play the music and only use memory and cpu power on the services that are related to the music playback and nothing else.
This has a dramatic effect on the music playback and is (according to my ears) far superior to foobar and jriver (and jplay/fidelizer).
The better your equipment are, the more you hear these differences.
I have two good cd players (Meridian 206/203 bitstream and Meridian 596DVD) and none of them come close to music reproduction from the same disk (files ripped by me) and the same dac when compared to the same dac and (same) file playback thru any computer playback system.
The small pigyback I2s dacs that plug on the Rpi (i have heard only the HiFiBerry and the MamboBerry, not the IQAudio but i presume they are of similar design), sound amazing due to the above explanations, but in turn sound far inferior to any properly implemented USB dac connected on the Pi.
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Post by chris1967 on May 13, 2015 22:04:38 GMT
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Post by chris1967 on May 24, 2015 19:14:10 GMT
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