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  1. I just received my Revolution Dac with the remote Control and Flex cable. For the meantime i am using my RPI 3B+ with Moode Audio and not the Boss Dac . I have a n RPI4B on the way and getting wired soldered underneath the GPIO pins ti bypass the USB=V power input. I use Moode Audio. The flex cable is short so the Pi and case and next to each other. I placed the original Audioquest Jitterbug to reduce noise from the USB port. The cable i use for my external hard drive has the power cut ad I use an external power supply for it. Within Moode, I changed (from the Boss 1.2) the hardware Volume mixer to Zero so Moode does not Control the volume. So far so good, more to come.
  2. My Katana stack has stopped working. I need your help support. The Dac board only allows on channel and there is a HF whine, Please help.
  3. I am so waiting for the Katana. How much longer until it is ready?
  4. Cannot Get Wifi working! I use The Pi 3b with the Hifiberry Dac + pro and the bottom half of the steel case. I have tried the on board wifi and the edimax and the best I can get is AP mode with the Edimax. I have change channels on the router yet no luck. I used a static address and when I reboot using Ethernet,. the network settings shows wireless %0 signal. I love using Moode yet I tied volumio and other Pi operation systems and they work with wireless and the see all the SIDs. Anyone have any ideas?
  5. I am using the steel case with my Pi and Dac + pro. I am only connect via AP mode or Ethernet. When you can expect version 3.0 to be released?
  6. I use for my primary (at this time) my totally optimized Mac Mini 2012, SSDm Nordost Purple Flair PC, Ultrafi Optimization guide, additional tweaks, Ultrafi Uzarta dual USB cable and Aubisque filter, Buffalo Ministorage 2.0 TB external HDD with the Ultrafi Thunderbolt cable. The Dac is a tube unit, the preamp is also tubes and i use a plasma HDTV. During the summertime, I do not like using the tubes and the TV heats up a lot. I setup a windows laptop to be a secondary listening dedicated headphone station. I use W7 64 bit home premium on a Lenovo 410S with a 1.8 inch SSD. The OS is optimized for music and I run fidelizer in extremist mode,and I have 6.0 GB of Ram. I use the LH Labs Geek Out 1000 USB Dac / headphone amp. My buddy who I convinced to buy my old mac mini to think about also trying using Linux yet there is no app that can come close to Amarra on the mac and JRMC 20 on the laptop. He told me about HQplayer Desktop so I decide to install it on my mac and give it a listen. I liked what I head through the speakers (no using the tubes) and using through the headphone as the tube headphone amp doubles as my preamp. Foe cans I use the sennheiser 650HD with an upgrade cable. The SQ was good yet I thought Amarra was better yet SQ was probably better than JRMC on the mac. Now for the Linux adventures. I wanted to try the Linux version yet I did not want to install Linux on the SSD so i went with Linux live install from the DVD. As per the WWW site, i tried Ubuntu 14.04 Studio which installed and allowed me to install the Linux version of HQplayer Desktop. Linux and mac OSX (the last several releases) are USB Audio 2.0 compliant and windows has never been. Does anyone know is Windows 10 supports USB Audio 2.0? The Geek out Dac installs right way on the mac mini with no drivers required. On my windows laptop , I do use the drivers for the Geek Out. Ubuntu Studio would not see the Geek Out Dac no matter what I tried. I tried a 32 bit Linux Mint DVD which installed and saw the Geek out Dac but could not install the 64 bit HQplayer. Knowing that Linux min sees the Geek Out, i took down the latest 64 bit DVD and that allows both the Geek Out to be used and install HQplayer Desktop. I took the 2,0 TB Buffalo drive which uses HFS+ with journaling disabled. Based on what I have read, Linux will work withe an HFS partition yet journaling had to be disabled. Linux mint 17 sees the HFS and now i use the files from the HDD. I use hi rez and do like like to upsample so I turned off the filter and dither. That improves the SQ esp. turning off the filter. I would say that on Linux and using and live session, not an Linux install, that SQplayer Desktop is probbaly the best sounding app for Linux. I did notice some quirks. While listening to the CANS the program would abort yet i ran it again and it worked, That happened 3 times. I did compare the SQ to VLC and Banchee and SQplayer blew them away. <<A request to see this player have the ability to load songs into memory.>> A good app, great for Linux and seems to work real well for Mac OS X. Hope to listen more and see some improvements down the road and i still feel Amarra is the best sounding program which only runs on Mac oS X. Liz
  7. Thanks for your response. I do not the idea of upsampling as I have a large library of hi-rez files. The SQ on my mac mini 2012 (optimized) is good yet i feel Amarra is more musical. As per a friend of mine, i setup a Linux live install and am using HQ with your suggestions. I changed the filter to none and i can hear the improvements.
  8. I am curious about this application. On my Mac Mini , I find Amarra to sound best of all the apps I have tried. on my laptop with windows 7 optimized , I use as headphone station, i like JRMC 20. Can some kind souls please post their experiences using HQ player on both mac and windows compared to other apps like Amarra , A+, JRMC, etc? Thanks in advance
  9. I was told by someone that the SSD drive did sound as good as the standard drive. Do you agree or disagree with this?
  10. I switching mac min computers so i can utilize the faster interfaces of the external hard drive to Thunderbolt, stink with Fw800 and use USB 3.0 For those of you who use a Mac Mini 2012 as a transport to A Dac, can you convey your experiences using the standard hard drive vs. A SSD (for sound quality). How much Ram should i use, 8 GB or 16GB? The unit comes with 4GB, 2 2.0GB Dimms. which brand SSd and Ram do you suggest? Your feedback will be greatly appreciated. Liz
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