Rocky Bennett
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Hello All,
I am new to this forum but I really enjoy the informative discussions that revolve around DACs and the science behind the music that we hear. As a brief introduction, I am old and on a fixed income. I recently put together a very simple little kitchen music player that I enjoy when I drink my morning coffee and do my kitchen chores. My goal for the system was to have something small and simple and easy to play. The key factor for all of my equipment choices was cost and ease of use. The system is based on a Klipsch Heritage The Three tabletop speaker. https://www.klipsch.com/products/the-three
The music player itself is built from a Raspberry Pi 4 running Volumio software and hooked to an old MusicStreamer II+ DAC that is hooked to the speaker through RCA style wires. I found the DAC in an old box in the garage and the cables that I used are Audio Quest Cinnamon USB cable and Audio Quest Cinnamon RCA cables. The cables were also in an old box in the garage so the only expense to the project was the Raspberry Pi and case, an Argon One V.2 https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-v-2-case-for-raspberry-pi-5.html
At this time I am using a stock Raspberry Pi power convertor and here is where my questions begin. As I stated I am old and I am on a fixed income and I am really happy with the sound that I hear, it is warm and clear and undistorted, to these old ears. (At this point I will point out that 100% of my listening is derived from an attached hard drive that contains wav files from my ripped CD collection at full 16 bit 44.1 khz resolution.)
So given the above information and background does anybody think that I should upgrade my power supply to an ifi iPower or do you think that I should upgrade my DAC to something like a Topping D30? These are hypothetical products, I am open to suggestions, but would any of this increase my listening pleasure? Although the system is warm and clear I think that I might be able to increase the clarity and/or the overall sonics of my music playback.
Of course I might be just grasping for straws and this system might actually be optimal as it is, considering that it is a simple tabletop stereo with no real separation or hi fi features.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.
I am new to this forum but I really enjoy the informative discussions that revolve around DACs and the science behind the music that we hear. As a brief introduction, I am old and on a fixed income. I recently put together a very simple little kitchen music player that I enjoy when I drink my morning coffee and do my kitchen chores. My goal for the system was to have something small and simple and easy to play. The key factor for all of my equipment choices was cost and ease of use. The system is based on a Klipsch Heritage The Three tabletop speaker. https://www.klipsch.com/products/the-three
The music player itself is built from a Raspberry Pi 4 running Volumio software and hooked to an old MusicStreamer II+ DAC that is hooked to the speaker through RCA style wires. I found the DAC in an old box in the garage and the cables that I used are Audio Quest Cinnamon USB cable and Audio Quest Cinnamon RCA cables. The cables were also in an old box in the garage so the only expense to the project was the Raspberry Pi and case, an Argon One V.2 https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-v-2-case-for-raspberry-pi-5.html
At this time I am using a stock Raspberry Pi power convertor and here is where my questions begin. As I stated I am old and I am on a fixed income and I am really happy with the sound that I hear, it is warm and clear and undistorted, to these old ears. (At this point I will point out that 100% of my listening is derived from an attached hard drive that contains wav files from my ripped CD collection at full 16 bit 44.1 khz resolution.)
So given the above information and background does anybody think that I should upgrade my power supply to an ifi iPower or do you think that I should upgrade my DAC to something like a Topping D30? These are hypothetical products, I am open to suggestions, but would any of this increase my listening pleasure? Although the system is warm and clear I think that I might be able to increase the clarity and/or the overall sonics of my music playback.
Of course I might be just grasping for straws and this system might actually be optimal as it is, considering that it is a simple tabletop stereo with no real separation or hi fi features.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.