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$100 Roon Bridge Endpoint: Raspbery Pi & HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro

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There is a force volume option in Roopie's 'Roon' tab. maybe worth checking in case you accidentally turned it on.

Just checked...it's off.

So it must be a setting within Roon itself, unless it's just not possible to do.
 

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Just checked...it's off.

So it must be a setting within Roon itself, unless it's just not possible to do.

DSP Volume works fine for me.

Do you have your device properly identified? I have Digi+ pro but Digi+ was all there is.

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The Hifiberry Digi+ pro has an independent clock and Galvanic isolation. So it’s the bare minimum of a decent transport HAT.

Anything above that and you’re bordering snake oil territory.

Unless you’re doing DSP or active crossover downstream of the Pi. I wouldn’t do transport HATs at all. (Unless you have other inputs like a TV for example).

Agreed...I turn on Graphics EQ which uses alsaequal in Moode and it delivers very good result!
 

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As a person who has had a bunch of these hats, I can attest to a couple things:
2. Even better is just getting a Raspberry Pi 4 and installing Ropieee and hooking that up to a USB DAC. This is the direction I'm going with the latest two endpoints I have in the house.

This is one of my current 2 setups...RPi4 with Roopiee USB out to RME ADI-2 Pro DAC. Result is outstanding!

Here's a kicker tho...I have RPi3 with Digi+ Pro HAT. I put Moode on, with Graphics EQ, it is close to my setup 1 above....When I say close..the only missing link is Roon has its own EQ and I find it's not as good as Moode's EQ (Moode also has Parametric EQ but I like the Graphic EQ better). So if I could configure Roon's Parametric to match w Moode's Graphic EQ, the RPi3 with Digi+ PRO will be the winner in my book!
 
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