Hello scientists,
My first post here! Admittedly, I do not understand any of the scientific parts of the reviews. Just an understanding nodding and "mmh.." when I read about things like low noise and clean sinus curves.
But I know one thing, and that is that I want to play my digital music over my old stereo in a way that is convenient and (important) that sounds good.
Oh, and I do not really want to spend a ton of money. I am thinking about $200 max.
My setup is a Yamaha AX 870 amp with RCA inputs and a pair of lovely T&A speakers. Not high-end by any means but produces clean and punchy sound, and there's no question that directly connecting an iPod or similar sounds miserable.
I've really just stepped into this world about 2 weeks ago and I started understanding a few things but mainly it seems to be a world targeted at engineers and not 'normal' consumers, so I am still puzzled about the best or even possible options.
So what I want is
What I will not do is
Help very much appreciated.
Thank you
My first post here! Admittedly, I do not understand any of the scientific parts of the reviews. Just an understanding nodding and "mmh.." when I read about things like low noise and clean sinus curves.
But I know one thing, and that is that I want to play my digital music over my old stereo in a way that is convenient and (important) that sounds good.
Oh, and I do not really want to spend a ton of money. I am thinking about $200 max.
My setup is a Yamaha AX 870 amp with RCA inputs and a pair of lovely T&A speakers. Not high-end by any means but produces clean and punchy sound, and there's no question that directly connecting an iPod or similar sounds miserable.
I've really just stepped into this world about 2 weeks ago and I started understanding a few things but mainly it seems to be a world targeted at engineers and not 'normal' consumers, so I am still puzzled about the best or even possible options.
So what I want is
- Stream music from my NAS over wifi or wired (not decided yet, depends if I can fit another wire through the wall)
- Be able to connect a phone via USB. Goal is that guests can easily play music from their phone.
- Play from a USB drive
- Adding a touch screen at some point, or be able to use my old iPad 2 to reach the music player interface. The latter one would require the interface to be reachable via browser since the pad does not install a single thing anymore.
What I will not do is
- Use a laptop or media PC or anything that has a fan or is ugly (R Pi in acrylic case is kind of cute though, and silent)
- All-in-one solutions like the Allo Boss or Allo Kali + Piano.
The results for the Boss player in this forum are not stellar, but that might be partially because of the power supply, so I'd need to add a good one like iPower for $50. Same might apply to Kali+Piano, but sounds seems better. Also, I'd exceed my budget. So only doing this if convinced that the sound is really better.
What are other good Pi + DAC board options? - Pi + standalone DAC, like the Topping 10
So it seems that the topping 10 is pretty good. I could feed it from a R Pi with Volumio or so. I like that it does not need a power supply. But is it really a good idea to feed it with a Pi USB? Would it still be useful to feed the pi with the expensive iPower? - If feeding a standalone DAC with USB from Pi is not good - maybe S/PDIF is
OK, so that would definitely be a budget killer, but maybe the best way to go (R Pi + Allo DigiOne + Topping D30)
Worth exploring?
Help very much appreciated.
Thank you