poing wrote: > It's really easy to build and set up a Hifiberry. > > I realize you've posted about the Cubietruck. Personally, I'm not a > Linux wizard. And I struggle with the Cubietruck. It's frustrating. But > let me assure you that the Raspberry Pi is an entirely different beast. > The Cubietruck sold in the thousands, whereas the Pi sold in the > millions. The Pi has a huge community. For the Pi, solutions for > non-experts exist which pretty much work out of the box. > > You don't need to solder. Assembly of a RPi 2 plus a Hifiberry takes a > few minutes at the most. No tools required. And basically, you can order > all required parts from one vendor. You spend roughly one hundred > dollars/euros/GBPs for a fully-loaded, audiophile player. > > As for the software/OS side of things: Once again, let me assure you > that even for a novice, setting up picoreplayer is easy as pie. > picoreplayer is an awesome project. It's simple. It's rock-solid. As > long as you use one of the well-supported I2S DACs such as the Hifiberry > Digi+, there shouldn't be any problem at all.
Thanks for the input! I think I could probably handle the RPi if there isn't much "coding" or soldering required. I did some quick searching and came up with this site: https://www.hifiberry.com/product-category/bundles/ Any others I should be looking at? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rulof72's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4272 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104164 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
