Hello all,
After looking around on numerous threads I have been lead down the rabbit hole of considering a Raspberry Pi for streaming music.
Current setup:
Laptop with Equalizer APO (with my room EQ profile) running Spotify (usually controlled via my phone) --> Amp --> Speakers / subs
Here are my goals:
1) Remote wifi ability to stream Spotify and control it with my phone.
2) Have EQ abilities - bonus points if the EQ is not a nightmare to change, as I have an EQ profile for my upstairs and downstairs systems
3) Potential bonus goal - have FIR abilities as I am playing around with DRC and filters with ~65536taps
4) Potential bonus goal - have the system use a Raspberry Pi as I also want to make it a full bitcoin node, as I think having a streamer and a full node would make it a pretty sick all in one device.
Here are my questions / areas of ignorance:
A) Any Raspberry Pi 4 would be ok right? Are there any 'audiophile considerations' that need to be made, or just the plane vanilla RPi4 would be ok?
B) People talk of moOde as a means of EQ for the RPi correct? Does this have parametric EQ abilities system wide / that would work with Spotify? Would this have FIR capabilities? I have heard of lots of DRC people talking about loading their filters into BruteFIR, does this work on a RPi system? Anyways, just looking for EQ advice.
C) The Raspberry Pi would only be the digital source and thus I would need an external DAC correct? Is it more economical to have a DAC included with the RPi or get an external DAC? If so, then I would just connect the RPi via USB correct? What would be the best bang for the buck DAC (With the focus on 'buck' as I don't need a perfect SINAD, just something that would be functionally transparent)?
D) Should I be considering other options? I have heard people discuss and recommend the ALLO BOSS2 which does seem phenomenal in terms of 'bang for the buck', but I am confused if there is a Raspberry Pi in the system that I could alter, or is it a closed system that I could not tamper with? As then my reservation would be that it would not have built in EQ capabilities correct? It also could not fill goal #4 correct?
I am hoping to do this project for as little money as possible, but it would be interesting to know the bear bones options and then the more lucrative approach.
Ok, well I am very excited to hear any suggestions!
Thanks!
After looking around on numerous threads I have been lead down the rabbit hole of considering a Raspberry Pi for streaming music.
Current setup:
Laptop with Equalizer APO (with my room EQ profile) running Spotify (usually controlled via my phone) --> Amp --> Speakers / subs
Here are my goals:
1) Remote wifi ability to stream Spotify and control it with my phone.
2) Have EQ abilities - bonus points if the EQ is not a nightmare to change, as I have an EQ profile for my upstairs and downstairs systems
3) Potential bonus goal - have FIR abilities as I am playing around with DRC and filters with ~65536taps
4) Potential bonus goal - have the system use a Raspberry Pi as I also want to make it a full bitcoin node, as I think having a streamer and a full node would make it a pretty sick all in one device.
Here are my questions / areas of ignorance:
A) Any Raspberry Pi 4 would be ok right? Are there any 'audiophile considerations' that need to be made, or just the plane vanilla RPi4 would be ok?
B) People talk of moOde as a means of EQ for the RPi correct? Does this have parametric EQ abilities system wide / that would work with Spotify? Would this have FIR capabilities? I have heard of lots of DRC people talking about loading their filters into BruteFIR, does this work on a RPi system? Anyways, just looking for EQ advice.
C) The Raspberry Pi would only be the digital source and thus I would need an external DAC correct? Is it more economical to have a DAC included with the RPi or get an external DAC? If so, then I would just connect the RPi via USB correct? What would be the best bang for the buck DAC (With the focus on 'buck' as I don't need a perfect SINAD, just something that would be functionally transparent)?
D) Should I be considering other options? I have heard people discuss and recommend the ALLO BOSS2 which does seem phenomenal in terms of 'bang for the buck', but I am confused if there is a Raspberry Pi in the system that I could alter, or is it a closed system that I could not tamper with? As then my reservation would be that it would not have built in EQ capabilities correct? It also could not fill goal #4 correct?
I am hoping to do this project for as little money as possible, but it would be interesting to know the bear bones options and then the more lucrative approach.
Ok, well I am very excited to hear any suggestions!
Thanks!