I use the Pi 4 with an IQ audio DAC+ HAT (daughter board).
I find the DAC+ to have a very high specification and it's quite a bit lower in price than some of the USB DACs. It's easy to integrate into piCore as it already has a dt_overlay which is selected by the piCore GUI. The biggest issue with the DAC+ (or most other daughter boards) is that their are no official Pi 4 cases that I know of which accommodate HATs. In the case of IQ Audio they say it is due to heat issues in the Pi4 which are not easy to mitigate in a case with a DAC attached. I have not yet seen a case for any type of DAC Hat for the pi 4. However piCore has addressed the issue by incorporating the latest kernel which manages the heat generation very well. I have made an open sided case from old IQ Audio case which has open sides. (There are no official sides for any DACS and the open sides also allow for heat dissipation). The piCore/4B combination runs about 4 degrees C hotter than the 3B equivalent I have four DAC+'s in my system, two pi 3B with official cases and two pi 4B with these modified cases. Picture attached. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Pi 4B DAC +.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29572| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ *Music Store & VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS* Home Server/Study Player:* LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4 pCp 6.0 (rc) Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.0.0 on Pi 4B pCp 6.0 (rc) Server/IQ Audio DAC+ *RF Headphone Playe*r Squeezelite/Jivelite on Pi 3B on pCp 6.0 (rc) IQ Audio DAC+ *Homeplug/LAN Players: *Squeezelite on 2x Windows 10 PC's, *VPN Mobile & Car Player:* Material/SqueezePlayer on Android Phone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ian_heys's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2629 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111732 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
