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LawshrinkMD

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  1. That's great to hear, no pun intended. I will report back when it shows up. I will definitely try comparing the coax and USB input into the same DAC and system and report back.
  2. I have been using my Pi3B running the JRiver Id Pi distribution through USB into a PS Audio Nuwave DSD dac, and I notice large differences in sound compared to using the same program with an old HP laptop running Windows 10. The sound is noticeably "off" with less bass, detail, soundstaging, as well as the volume level seeming lower. I wish anyone claiming "bits are bits" could hear the difference between the Pi vs the laptop, as they are night and day, and neither are $$ devices (although the laptop was mid grade, obviously more expensive than the Pi is) I was planning on connecting the Pi to a Rotel RSX1560 receiver which has a built in DAC which accepts coax, and I am also curious to try connecting it over coax compared to USB. The good news is no skipping or problems with the actual playback, just sort of a mid fi quality, The laptop I use is nothing special at all, 6 years old HP, but the sound quality seems much better over USB than the Pi, so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or if it is just the nature of the thing. I ordered the Digi+ Pro, so I am curious to see how it sounds!
  3. I have successfully installed JRiver IdPi, connected to my NAS, imported all my music (and discovered the long filename box to check off, so it doesn't get stuck!) I have been using it with a USB dac, but now I plan on moving it to a different stereo, which is based on a Rotel RSX-1560. This is older hardware, from 2009, and has a built in DAC which goes up to 24/192 via coax (I sent Rotel an email to confirm this, haven't heard back yet). I have already tried connecting using HDMI, and the Rotel receiver only sees up to 48khz, which I believe is a limitation of the Rasberry Pi's HDMI port, although it is not clear to me if that is a hardware or software issue. My question is, which do people think would sound better? Using the Hifiberry DAC+ and just connecting it to the receiver with analog RCA, or to use the DIGI+ board and connect to the receiver's DAC using the S/PDIF coax? The Rotel is a nice receiver, and I'd like to hope it is a higher quality DAC, plus already wired directly into the receiver, vs using the HifiBerry DAC+ board. On the other hand, about 5 years or so have gone by from when the Rotel was new, and technology may have marched on? Short of purchasing both, I'm curious which way people have been happier, especially comparing USB output to DIGI+ ouput into the same DAC. Unfortunately I am losing DSD decoding for now, but the whole point was to build an inexpensive renderer which could still use JRiver, which accesses my NAS and can read SACD ISOs. The Rasberry Pi 3B and Jriver Id PI combo is up to $100 bucks so far, and the less expensive NUC machines or a home build HTPC would be a few hundred dollars more at least. It would be nice to just get the new Oppo Sonica DAC, which has the same functionality, but I don't even know if it would handle SACD ISO, and for me that is the deal breaker since I already am set up that way, and I'm not interested in converting all my albums into dsf files! Any thoughts?
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