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Raspberry Pi on a Mega Audiophile System
Hilton:
Hi All,
I had the pleasure of attending a night of Jazz listening to this awesome system.
My mighty little raspberry Pi brick running MC 21 was also given a run, plugged directly into the $10,000 Bricasti M1 USB DAC and it was well up to the task working straight out of the box with no special configuration required.
We played some 192k and 96K and 48K 24bit Flac and even DSD64. The Pi and DAC didn't play as nicely with the DSD64 SACD ISO with some stuttering problems but everything else played perfectly, with comments of "wow that sounds good".
The DSD64 plays fine on my headphone DSD capable DAC so it's likely with some more time and tinkering with buffer settings we could have got DSD to work too.
It was a great night and really interesting to hear how good JRiver MC21 on Linux can sound with an uber expensive system.
Raspberry Pi with mega system by Hilton, on Flickr
For those that don't know what the Pi Brick is. ;)
IMG_5827 by Hilton, on Flickr
phillil:
Although not quite in the same league....
My RaspPi2 running MC plays quite nicely with my £5,500 Classe CP800 DAC/Pre-amp!!
blgentry:
That's really neat.
What did the assembled group think of the Pi Brick? What was their reaction to JRemote controlling the whole thing?
Brian.
Hilton:
--- Quote from: blgentry on December 08, 2015, 10:31:38 am ---That's really neat.
What did the assembled group think of the Pi Brick? What was their reaction to JRemote controlling the whole thing?
Brian.
--- End quote ---
People thought it was amazing and that it sounded better than the MAC mini. The mini was running a different program though, not sure which one but either Audiovana plus, Pure Music or Amarra - I'll ask and find out. (I think it was Audivana Plus) Discussions about the Pi running on battery, having no moving parts, being a low power device etc ensued..... ;)
Probably more expectation bias than truth, but in any case I think it was pretty unanimous it sounded great.
You might be surprised to hear this but the audio remotes on iPad for most of the high end players are quite good now too, so JRemote wasn't such a revelation in itself, however being able to just plugin and power up the Pi headless and start using JRemote tethered to the iPhone raised a few eyebrows. No configurations or stuffing around with software to configure the DAC, it just worked. (apart from VNC in to the Pi to change the DAC settings to DSD bitstreaming when we played some DSD.)
Hilton:
--- Quote from: phillil on December 08, 2015, 10:30:07 am ---Although not quite in the same league....
My RaspPi2 running MC plays quite nicely with my £5,500 Classe CP800 DAC/Pre-amp!!
--- End quote ---
Sounds like a lovely combo! ;)
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