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Just to confirm for anyone who has read this I have had a replacement board delivered to me by Allo and i have sent the original board back to them . This has resolved all the previous issues and the player with Allo board is now working exactly as it should .

Good Morning I have responded to your PM and I can confirm that this is happening each time I am restarting . Is there any correct way to turn off the Allo Signature before cutting the power so as to ensure that it closes properly as this might help with this issue.

Hello I have a problem with my newly bought and installed Allo Digione Signature this is fitted to a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB and all in the Allo Plastic case. The Pi is using Moode Audio Distro and getting its signal via ethernet cable from my stand alone Logitech Media Server. Now I use the set up with the following power supplies a Baldwin Audio Dual 5v 3 Amp LPSU which feeds the Raspberry Pi 4 (Dirty Side ) and the MiniDSP DDRC 2 DSP . The Allo Board (Clean Side) is then fed by an Allo Shanti LPSU using the 5v 1 Amp clean side . When this is turned off and then rebooted the next morning the Allo Signature will power up (I leave the Clean side powered on 24/7) and after setting up will appear on the LMS player list and i can select it and start play . It then starts to play and progress bar at the bottom shows it playing the song but no sound is coming out . If I wait then the it starts with some low level clicks and pops and then as per the attached recording the sound goes through badly distorted to less distortion until after about two minutes the sounds cleans up and will play correctly . I have no idea what is causing this but using another Pi with a USB out to a USB / SPDIF converter does not suffer in the same way and a Pi 3 with Digione board also works fine . Any sugestions as what is going on and how this can be fixed ? Voice0002.mp3

Apologies if this is not the right thread to ask a question like this but I was not sure if starting a new thread would be sensible . I know that you use the Raspberry Pi 3 as the basis for your Bridge but that you do quite a bit of additional work on top of that . What I am asking is have you made a Bridge (prototype) using the Pi 4 ? In paticular the Pi 4 8gb unit . I have used a Raspberry Pi as my stand alone Music Server for many years and over that time I have upgraded the Pi as newer quicker versions were made and seen the speed and the response times get better. The latest unit I was using since its inroduction was the Raspberry Pi 4 4gb which was really fast and smooth with excellent response times using LMS as the software via Max2play . At no time during the changes do I notice any change in sound quality for the server until now . My Pi 4 4gb blew up and when i came to replace it I just thought what the hell get an 8 gb and just get that little bit more speed and head room . I know for what i am using it for it is overkill and not needed but it is just the one . Much to my surprise though using the same SD card as for the 4 gb and the standard Pi PSU when i inserted the 8 gb unit the sound quality of all my systems was very noticable . Much more natural vocals , deeper and more textured bass , and much better imaging . Now I have no idea why this is so but I would be interested if someone else could advise if they get a similar improvement ? I had a 2gb unit which i used as a stop gap waiting for the 8 gb to arrive and it sounded exactly like the 4 gb but just a little slower in response . I can easily change this over and back to the 8 gb unit but it really easy to spot and hear the sound improvement of the larger Ram unit . I have no idea why this should be but needless to say i am delighted . I will be adding a good LPSU to the Pi 8gb soon and if this improves things again then happy days .

I recently bought a used Digione board with Acylic case and as I had a spare Raspberry Pi 4 decided to fit that . At the same time I also bought a Shanti power supply . So when the Shanti arrived stripped the Digione from the case added the Pi 4 with a nice new install of Max2play I use this for my LMS server and other players because it just worked and let me control each unit player of server from one page. First problem the Max2play set up kept bricking and you were not able to start or communicate with it . So out with the SD card and a clean install of Picoreplayer 6.0 . After set up this worked and music was back sounding like it should . Then another school boy error I bought a Digione metal case not realising it would only fit a Pi3 and not a Pi4 . Ahh well luckily I had a nice new Pi 3 B+ so another SD card clean install of Max2play use the Allo configuration on first install page and then update both the distro and Max2play and transport worked first time . Looks good in its all metal jacket as well . Now the strange bit this set up sounds much better than the Pi 4 set up. I have no idea why but the background is really silent and the music flows better it is just much easier to relax and listen . I have no good reason as to why this set is so improved but frankly do not care I do all of this to listen to music and any improvement of that is gratefully accepted .