Squeezemenicely wrote: > I do wonder now, if the community has actually produced a better product > than there was ever available before. > > On one hand we have the Touch - ignoring the Display - i ask myself if > the following is not actually the better player: > > Raspberry + Hifiberry Digi (the S/PDIF Version) or the DAC + > Picoreplayer > > Especially if you is feed the signal into your favourite DAC, I guess > the homemade version has more audio options and should in fact be the > "better" Touch/Receiver. > Even sync should be ok. > > Pretty amazing what our little community has put together. > > What are your thoughts on this? Does the Hifiberry DAC version also > sound better than the Touch? > I am still waiting for my Hifiberry Digi version and really wondering if > I should substitute my Touch with it.
I find that I rarely use the screen on my Touch, either to control music play or to see what's playing. I usually use Squeezepad or iPeng on an iPad or the web interface on a laptop. I have a couple of Raspberry Pi model B, one with a HiFiBerry DAC. At the moment however, I'm running them through external DACs connected via USB (one is a DACMagic 100 - and on to my HiFi, the other is a Cambridge Audio Headphone DAC/amp). They sound great to me - I originally set them up as insurance against my SBT and SB3 breaking. Robert Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 SqueezePad, iPeng, Squeezeplay, piCorePlayer/HiFiBerry, piCorePlayer>DacMagic XS QNAP TS-239, LMS 7.9 last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102312 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
