Raspberry Pi with HiFiBerry SPDIF board

[Clive]

Has anyone here tried using a Raspberry Pi with the HiFiBerry SPDIF board? I gather Volumio is a player to use.
http://www.hifiberry.com/hbdigi

I've not touched Linux and don't really want to but I'm tempted to give it a go. However if MQn on an relatively untweaked W8.1 laptop known to trounce the Pi then I won't waste my time. BTW I'm really happy with MQn (AVX issues aside), I'm just being curious, the Pi isn't exactly blinding performance but it's not doing much either so maybe it'll sound good? Maybe Gordon will do a player for it....

[Clive]

Bad idea then?

[nige2000]

Dunno
But the whole point of raspberry pi and bbb was their i2s out which a can be used directly or indirectly with a variety of dac chips that are very well regarded

Essentially the rpi or bbb would become part of the dac

Spdif would be less of a direct route

I'm doing some mucking about with it have stuff coming for experiments ill let you know if I get it better than pc dac combo

[Clive]

Thanks Nige that makes sense. I look forward to hearing of the results.

[sbgk]

any update on this ?

was reading http://www.hifiwigwam.com/showthread.ph ... ost1861479

and pi + pidac + picoreplayer seems to impress some people, wonder if there are possibilities there

[nige2000]

I've used volumio
Rpi and volumio with ians Fifo reclock onto an i2s dac
And it's very impressive
Bout the same as MQn on the laptop
Dedicated pc still a good margin ahead
I'm waiting on an i2s driver for the BBb and ill continue experimenting then

Think we need an audiophile bbb
They were not designed for audio
Looking forward to more developments with it

[2channelaudio]

I've used volumio
Rpi and volumio with ians Fifo reclock onto an i2s dac
And it's very impressive
Bout the same as MQn on the laptop
Dedicated pc still a good margin ahead
I'm waiting on an i2s driver for the BBb and ill continue experimenting then

Think we need an audiophile bbb
They were not designed for audio
Looking forward to more developments with it

BBB doesn't support 44.1khz. , it would need to resample 44.1hhz to 48khz to render..
That's me out, as I only listen to redbook.

http://hifiduino.wordpress.com/2014/03/ ... for-audio/
BBB supports 48KHz, 96KHz, 192KHz and 384KHz. RPi supports 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96KHz, 176.4KHz and 192KHz (in theory). RPi uses “fractional clock dividers” to generate the 44.1KHz sample rate family

Why wouldn't you just grab a new motherboard sporting the new Intel Celeron j1900 (10watt) CP and install mpd or vortexbox. Its essentially the same as volumio?

Plus its got much more connectivity and still easily powered by atx/linear/battery options

[Aleg]

I've used volumio
Rpi and volumio with ians Fifo reclock onto an i2s dac
And it's very impressive
Bout the same as MQn on the laptop
Dedicated pc still a good margin ahead
I'm waiting on an i2s driver for the BBb and ill continue experimenting then

Think we need an audiophile bbb
They were not designed for audio
Looking forward to more developments with it

BBB doesn't support 44.1khz. , it would need to resample 44.1hhz to 48khz to render..
That's me out, as I only listen to redbook.

http://hifiduino.wordpress.com/2014/03/ ... for-audio/
BBB supports 48KHz, 96KHz, 192KHz and 384KHz. RPi supports 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96KHz, 176.4KHz and 192KHz (in theory). RPi uses “fractional clock dividers” to generate the 44.1KHz sample rate family

Why wouldn't you just grab a new motherboard sporting the new Intel Celeron j1900 (10watt) CP and install mpd or vortexbox. Its essentially the same as volumio?

Plus its got much more connectivity and still easily powered by atx/linear/battery options

The biotic cape is what we're waiting for with BBB.

[james]

I have come upon this site http://www.squeezeplug.eu which trys to make the pi/soundcard into a squeezebox clone.

Its something I might look at if I ever get the time. I am starting to read the documentation http://www.squeezeplug.eu/wiki/index.ph ... requisites

james

[essjay]

New to the board but spotted this thread and thought I'd mention my setup.

I've essentially created a multiroom audio system using RPi's and piCorePlayer (currently only have zone in operation as I'm playing with XBMC on the other RPi). Essentially I have an always on fileserver which mainly stores my movie collection but also acts as the Logitech Media Server. The music is residing on a FlexRAID pooled drive (actually 4 drives with around 9TB).

Anyways, the music is all FLAC and for some of the 24-bit FLACs, the RPi was having difficulty outputting audio through the 3.5mm jack. I had a HiFimeDIY USB DAC so plugged it in and works a treat. The model I have is something like this: http://hifimediy.com/DACs/ready-made-da ... -dac-uae23

The sound is fantastic as the RPi & DAC is feeding a Denon DM39 with Monitor Audio RX1 speakers. It's a bit overfill for a kitchen system but works very well with the Android and iOS apps so is very wife friendly.

The only issue I have is that the RPi needs a reboot every few days. I did have it always on and located with other AV equipment but I've since moved it to beside the DM39 and powered from the Denon's USB which means it should get daily reboots.