I recently retired my venerable transporter and replaced it with https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/network-audio-players-raspdac/audiophonics-evo-sabre-pack-diy-balanced-dac-2xes9038q2m-streamer-for-raspberry-pi-4-p-14639.html
I really like the DAC and this kit it actually very nice - very tidy, easy to put together with no real problems. Even came with all of the right number of screws! By default, their setup wants to run moode or dietpi on the pi, but like you I'm a PCP die hard. So a load of work later, I've rebuilt their python scripts and lirc setups to have the whole thing running with PCP now with the second OLED screen all running properly. If you look at the alsa bitrate with cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params it always shows 32 bit. So, it seems to be zero padding everything upto 32bit, which the dac then strips away again I believe. If you run Squeezelite with -V Digital, the volume control thought material etc. then adjusts the volume on the DAC - -V is the instruction to Squeezelite to use hardware volume control. It seems to work fine. However, I found it all rather confusing with too many volumes, so I've set mine to 100% fixed volume on squeezelite, set the dac to a reasonable volume, and then actually control the volume on my pre-amp. Since this is using the built in Pi, it's using I2S, which does limit me to 384kHz / DOP128, but I can live with that for now :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ psketch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114744 _______________________________________________ diy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/diy
