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In Reply to: RE: Hang in there.... posted by double28 on April 06, 2017 at 06:00:28
I have a stock SONOS Connect hooked to the S/PDIF input of my DAC/Headphone amp where I currently stream music via USB from a Macbook Air.
Even TIDAL and QOBUZ sound noticeably better with the USB input from a computer than via S/PDIF from the stock SONOS Connect, enough so that I no longer use it.
If the Raspberry Pi/LMS turns out to be a PITA to use streaming TIDAL and QOBUZ, I might be tempted to go the upgraded SONOS route.
Follow Ups:
I tried the SONOS connect, via coaxial digital output to an external DAC. I wanted it to work because the user interface was good and because of the wide selection of streaming sources.
Unfortunately, the sound quality was inferior compared to the Squeezebox SB3 it was replacing (using the same DAC on both). The sound was flat, 2-dimensional and lifeless. Perhaps if I had sent it off to W4S for their upgrade it might have been OK, but I returned it and tried a Denon HEOS Link. User interface was just as good, price was the same, and sound quality was MUCH better. Easily as good (or better, I think) than the Squeezebox. And the internal DAC in the HEOS Link sounds very good, as good as the external DAC I was using.
As BH says below....I will let you know. The mod is the same as the RP with the hifiBerry sound card which is what we just received. W4S replaces the stock Connect sound card with a much better revision.
I love the idea of RP and it is a "cute" device as my wife commented, but the fiddly nature to set up is not my cup of tea. If I am going to pull my hair out I would rather mess with mounting a cartridge. Concerning computers, I am a plug and play kind of guy. 100 years ago I sold Westinghouse automation gear and had one of the first Compaq computers. It was in the configuration of a suit case and the bottom hinged down and contained the keyboard. I have served my time programming and writing code....
Will
You can't compare the mod to RPi, Wyred 4 sounds also puts a Low noise power supply for the clock, etc,,,
The magic with the Sonos is all the apps you have built in, and you don't have to be a alien to figure it out.
Modding the Sonos is the best investment in my system so far, I spent a ton of money on Auralic Aries and it doesn't compare to Sonos because there are no apps to add music services besides the basic ones, Sonos has band camp, deezer, google, pandora, etc,,, much better if you are done buying cds and rather rent than buy.
How soon depends on my luck the the Raspberry Pi.
I do wish he would come up with an I2S solution that is either PSAudio or RJ45 compatible so I could hook the SONOS up directly to my Audio-GD DAC via I2S.
The Rpi running LMS gives you a lot more services than SONOS...As well as a much better User Interface. Plus a Worldwide community that writes Plugins that are very useful.LMS is pretty easy to figure out...No Alien-ware needed.
Cut-Throat
Edits: 04/06/17
modded sonos is glorious, vs stock sonos which is shit.
does that clear it up?
just trying to tell it like it is :)
guessing you hear that criticism a lot though, no? ;-)
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