On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:03:33 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > The latest Chromecast Audio seems like it could be part of a modular > solution. It would take some code to piece it together, but ti's > pretty accessible. For those proposing RaspberryPi solutions there is > the HiFiBerry DAC which comes in analog and SPDIF output versions. It > even comes in a version with a 25w onboard amplifier, but I'm not > certain what that gets you. If it could be powered over Ethernet, and > achieve suitable output levels, that could reduce the cable > requirement to one per RPi+amp+speaker. Wireless is never really > wireless when power is something other than batteries. Michael Graves
About Power Over Ethernet: it's good to know that 802.3af is limited to 15.3W per device, while 802.3at can provide up to 25.5 W per device: http://www.rhyshaden.com/eth_poe.htm -- Marc _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
