Steve Agnew wrote: > If I was in your situation, I would buy a Raspberry Pi 2 with a > HifiBerry Dac+ Pro and the matching HifiBerry steel case, which is about > the best and cheapest high quality replacement for your receiver. Just > install PiCorePlayer and you are done. Check on the PiCorePlayer web > site for supported wifi USB sticks if you are on wireless, otherwise you > are good to go as you already know how to use iPeng and LMS. There's no > real need to spend big bucks and you don't have to be a Unix expert. I > hope my Transporters won't ever die on me but I have some Pi's ready to > drop in if they do. > > Regards, Steve.
Perfect, nice to see this future proofing of the original Slimdevices concept. Thanks for your reply. So in summary it looks like A Rasberry Pi 2 is a little computer, The HifiBerry Dac+ pro bolts on to the RPi2 to add quality Audio, put it in a little box and you have basically a Squeezebox Receiver. Then PiCorePlayer is loaded on the RPi2 (maybe on a separate micro flash card?) and the LMS sees the PiCorePlayer as a Squeezebox. Or PiCorePlayer can replace LMS even? Sounds like there is no worry about the future of my system. Do I have it right? Now I just have to decide if I wan't to pick up a Transporter SE for the better sound quality and/or convenience. I will read up on the sound quality of the HifiBerry Dac+ Pro. Thanks for the overview. Lots of progress happens when you step away from the forums for 5 or so years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John_Dumke's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9709 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105788 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
