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RE: Raspberrry Pi HiFi Berry vs. uRendu...


You might checkout what network capacity a stupid audiostream requires to be able to judge the impact of 100MBit/s vs. 1GB/s.

Than you need to know if a device or a network is even able to process 1GB/s properly. That's not always the case!

I hooked up a $10 GBIT dongle to a USB port of the PI. This brought me
300MBIT/s. But. Is that the key issue?
Just in case you bulkload files for RAM playback, it'll give you a slight advantage.

The dongle has certain other advantages though.
1. You'll get the networking HW away from the PI
2. Even those $10 dongles are often better build then the PI internal networking part
3. You could power it externally
4. What I did, I hooked up a Jitterbug filter that was sitting idle between dongle an DAC to clean up the air.


BTW. The PI is very much comparable to a uRendu. The USB ports
can be used as audio output the same way you do on the uRendu.
BUT. For sure the USB output quality of a PI is worse then
a uRendu. That's why I said you'd need to add one of the known
USB gadgets to your bill to be able to get to a uRendu USB performance
level.







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