Except you can cast pretty much any app to Chromecast Audio and pretty much no app to RPi.Fair bit better than Chromecast audio, particularly now gapless playback is possible.
Oh right. There are heaps of apps to use the RPI. But depends what you want to do, Bluetooth is handy too.Except you can cast pretty much any app to Chromecast Audio and pretty much no app to RPi.
if it is running ROPIEEXL, you can Roon, Airplay, Squeezebox. Only not Chromecast.Except you can cast pretty much any app to Chromecast Audio and pretty much no app to RPi.
On my Raspberry i use Ifi power X 5v.I heard from a famous audiophile youtuber today, that the audio USB output of the Raspberry Pi is very noisy.
I was a bit disappointed at first because this is exactly what I use to stream my music. But then I thought well I can’t hear any noise so why worry, right?
But now there’s this voice in my head... I’m listening to a noisy source. But am I? Is it scientifically proven that this is a ‘dirty’ source? He was also complaining about the power source for the Raspi. I’m using the standard wall plug but as an audiophile you should at least buy a PSU of course!
So what are you suggesting? Getting power filters, extra expensive cables etc but not listening to Hans who supports all that crap?On my Raspberry i use Ifi power X 5v.
And Ifi usb purifier 3
And Supra excalibur usb cable.
Connected to a Topping D90 MQA Dac
The sound got from good to just amazing with those tweaks.
My friend and I tested he's ifi streamer vs my setup.
We couldn't hear any difference at all.
Don't listen to Hans
If it's all about the voice in your head, then get an Intona USB 2.0 Isolator (the small version will do). It is an industrial device that is used in industry, medicine and measurement technology.So what are you suggesting? Getting power filters, extra expensive cables etc but not listening to Hans who supports all that crap?
Cool, thanksArchimago compared USB on Pi 3, Odroid and MS surface at the output of the DAC and found essentially no difference. Any properly engineered DAC assumes noise on the USB power line and filters/regulates it accordingly. If you've got ground issues (which often present as 'USB noise') that's another matter, and a proper USB isolator may fix it.
What do you mean by bluetooth 5? There were some significant changes announced for 5.2 which have since been rebranded, but as I understand it chunks of the spec have yet to be finalized. Then again manufacturers may release based on the last draft and hope nothing changes...
'm looking in recreating my pi streamer I used to build. It was with a Pi3 and that was noisy. Isolating using Ian Canada's isolator with a reclocker and back to SP/Dif did clean up the noise a lot. Now this was measured. And it was known that the PI3 was very noisy. The clock upgrades were non-noticable to me. But I've added the crystaks anyway to try.
USB Was the same, and knowing what dac could handle the noise or not, including availability and price was too much to figure out;
Is the pi 2+1 affected? Currently using my pi 4 for roon but have an unused pi 2.The errors start here - WiFi is connected via sdio not usb.
Widely repeated but demonstrably wrong - please stop spreading this rubbish. The bus is far from maxed out when glitches occur. There's a lot of detail in the kernel bug report. Short version - something (or somethings) odd and as yet not pinned down causes increased latency in the interrupt handling, resulting in the Pi sending the next chunk of data to the DAC just too late. An example of weirdness - BruteFIR is quite a good trigger for the problem, but if you pin the BruteFIR processes to a single cpu core the problem stops.
EDIT: you're right about it not being a problem on the Pi4, and it having PCIe. I don't know if the bug still happens if you use the USB-C port in host mode and connect a DAC to it, but it's not exactly a normal use case.
The issue seems tied to the USB-OTG controller shared by Pi models before the 4, or its driver, so the Pi 2 is potentially affected. Whether it actually happens depends on the software running among other things. I've never experienced it with piCorePlayer despite trying to provoke it, but on the same hardware I could repeatably cause it with BruteFIR on both Volumio and Raspbian. Since you already have an unused Pi 2 you may as well try it with piCorePlayer and/or RoPieee - it may well be fine.Is the pi 2+1 affected? Currently using my pi 4 for roon but have an unused pi 2.
Best way to cure audiophile neurosis is to lend some streamers and compare for yourself at home. If you cant hear a difference between a Linn Akurate DS and a rasberry pi then there are no difference to be heard . Its your ears that shall be satisfied, not people at this forum.I heard from a famous audiophile youtuber today, that the audio USB output of the Raspberry Pi is very noisy.
I was a bit disappointed at first because this is exactly what I use to stream my music. But then I thought well I can’t hear any noise so why worry, right?
But now there’s this voice in my head... I’m listening to a noisy source. But am I? Is it scientifically proven that this is a ‘dirty’ source? He was also complaining about the power source for the Raspi. I’m using the standard wall plug but as an audiophile you should at least buy a PSU of course!
If you don't already have one then a Pi 4 makes more sense than older models, barring ridiculous pricing or availability issues. If you've already got a Pi and don't experience the issue then don't worry. I've still got piCorePlayer on an original model B without issue. It's a potential problem in that it genuinely does exist in the right conditions, but in many use cases it doesn't actually happen.Sounds like it's time to get a pi4.
I'm running volumio, never had any issues and is pretty good solution.