I'm a bit nervous of saying anything at all about the the HiFiBerry, as
it could be taken as sour grapes, me working on a similar project and
all. So I'll limit my comments to suggesting that as this DAC chip is
from the same "family" as the one being used for the CS hardware, that
if the Pi is has the compute power to do this, upsampling via
squeezelite will prove to be advantageous.

Reeshar wrote: 
> That said, all external DACs will buffer incoming data and re-clock it
> so whether jitter has a real effect is moot.

Not necessarily true.

Reeshar wrote: 
> For me the greatest attraction of the HiFiBerry is that it offers a
> relatively low-cost high-quality all-in-one solution.

Yep, for 29 EUROS, who cares that it is probably using the on-chip PLL
driven by BCK from Pi. It'll end up being more expensive, but if this
was me, I'd have used the ES9023 in async with a very high quality 50MHz
clock. But John (Swenson) likes the TI chip family. And I suspect he is
right to want to use very high quality external master clock(s) with
them, rather than on-board PLL. You pays your money and you makes your
choice.....


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