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In Reply to: RE: pi dac instructions?? posted by AbeCollins on June 30, 2016 at 06:13:55
Yes. They all run I2S.
There are different implementations and drivers though.
E.g. the Hifiberry DAC+ Pro uses its own quality clocks and slaves the PI.
Currently MamboBerry and Audiophonics PI DAC V3 seem to be the HAT DACs of "plug'n play" choice.
AT around 200$ (PI, DAC, iPower PS, case, SD card) you'll get a pretty decent streamer incl. DAC.
If you want to spent an extra $50 you can add a 2nd power supply to have PI and DAC PS separated.
If you want to spent more and don't demand HAT, you can buy A Soekris I2S R2R DAC ($280+transformer) which comes with I2S isolator and reclocker.
But to get this going it'll require a bit more DIY efforts. Still manageable though. (Consider what you'll save on USB filter gadgets alone!")
Enjoy.
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Seems like a good way to DIY one's own microRendu of sorts, w or w/o built-in DAC for much less $$. I think I've seen some "Roon ready" implementations but haven't read up on it. Thanks.
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You'll be much more flexible with such a "DIY" solution.
There are numerous people out there using that stuff.
You'll find a community driven and supported evolution.
IMO no need to buy any commercial streamer.
Beside that SW support and evolution for these commercial solutions
will be frozen sooner as you think. There'll be no budget to keep
support up for years.
And Roon -- who needs that??
Svensson of course turns every stone to deliver an audio device par excellence from an electronics perspective.
However above still applies. I wouldn't ever consider to buy such a device.
I might borrow one just to see where I'm at with my solution. And I bet I'll be not much off track with my solution.
No one "needs" it but I'm warming up to Roon after playing around with it for the past couple weeks. Having a DIY "Roon ready" streamer might be fun to dink around with. The fact that it's been ported to ARM / Linux is kinda cool.
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