Man in a van wrote: > :cool: > > > The 'pi usb is allegedly (by those who "know" about these things) > compromised by share the same 'bus' (tink that is the word) as the > Ethernet. > > Try it and see is all I can offer, from my own experience,the HiFiBerry > Digi is very good, the IQaudIO dac very good, and using a couple of USB > dacs with SqueezePlug and piCorePlayer, the only real difference was the > connectivity (dac drivers included in the respective kernels). > > I have also used a cubox base player with both usb and spdif outlets. > > Can't say that any one, is really "better" than the other, sometimes I > think the only difference is in the mood/demeanour of the listener.:p > > Glad your sorted. > > atb > > Ronnie.
Very interesting! Greg Erskine wrote: > The RPi has 4 audio options: > > 1. Analog thru headphone jack > 2. HDMI (I think I2S may be available thru HDMI) > 3. USB > 4. I2S thru GPIOs > > All (well 99%) audio DAC chips use I2S as their input. So going through > USB adds a couple of extra steps in the digital to analog process. > > I2S is a 4 wire "bus" - Word clock/Data line/Bit clock/Master clock > > regards > Greg If you're using I2S, then getting a coax/optical SPDIF output via something like a HiFiBerry Digi/+, then isn't that adding few more steps, similar to the added steps that the Pi USB output would use? Or do you mean USB DACs take extra steps with the USB input, as compared to coax/optical SPDIF? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
