Guut_Boy wrote: > I have an old RPi lying around on which I was thinking of installing > piCorePlayer and use as a small inexpensive headphone listening station. > However, I heard that the jack on the RPi is not very good to use with > headphones (in this case I would probably be using a pair of > Beyerdynamic Dt990). The sound is low quality and not very loud. > > I looked into the HifiBerry but the jack on the DAC+ is explicitly > stated as not suitable for headphones. The HifiBerry AMP does not seem > to have a headphone jack either. > > So now I am wondering what it would take make the setup reasonable? Is > there some alternative to the HifiBerry that does work with headphones? > Or would it be better to get the HifiBerry DAC and a small external > headphone amp? In the that case, is there some amp you can recommend > (not too big, and not too expensive).
Hi. I'm using a headphone plugged directly into the RPi using piCorePlayer. I think it is doing fine (declaration: I not an audiophile in any way). The sound has been improved massively compared with the first kernels. So I suggest that you simply try it, and if it is fine, then you don't need to look any further. If you need amplification, then the IQaudIO DAC+ has a headphone amplifier build in. It is also working fine with piCorePlayer. Steen piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home *Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the piCorePlayer* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sbp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37237 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106327 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
