Hello all,
Thank you for this great thread.
It convinced me to buy an SGD1. Which I received a few days ago.
I use it between a RaspberryPi 4 and my old hi-fi amplifier.
The RPi outputs the audio via USB (with Volumio) so I use the USB input of the SGD1.
It works perfectly.
However I wonder if using the AES input would be even better?
For this, it is possible to add a HAT card with a XLR connector on the RasberryPi, to provide this AES output.
Would this bring a gain in quality compared to USB?
Thanks for your good advice
I'm using the same setup. How could it be "better"? Check the Jitter test, USB is perfect on SGD1.
On the other hand, you can spend weeks "tuning" this system, buying additional hardware, new cables, etc. and end up with a system which probably won't even reach the USB's jitter performance.