KeithL
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Post by KeithL on Jul 9, 2019 10:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by DST on Aug 1, 2019 14:35:38 GMT -5
I have been running an Asus Tinker Board (very similar to but more powerful than the Rasp Pi) with Volumio software for some time. I play music that is stored on my NAS and i-phone wirelessly through the Tinker Board running Volumio into my Emotiva dac via USB input. Sound is excellent! Only required cost is for a Pi or Tinker Board. The new Pi that just came out is more powerful and has better USB output. Previous Pis had terrible USB out. If you do not want to run wirelessly, you can run through ethernet cable. The basic form of Volumio is free and it is a kick ass music playing platform. There are specific versions to run on the various types of SBCs (single board computers) -- RPi, Tinker, Beaglebone, etc. Overall, for less than $100 one can have a kick ass streamer and music player that is the size of a cigarette pack. If you want to feed a cleaner digital version to your Emotiva DAC than the USB out of a Pi or Tinker Board, you can purchase a HAT (device that attaches directly to and sits on top of the Pi/TB) that cleans up your digits. DAC HATs also abound in the marketplace, but most folks here already have their own dacs. A SBC like RPi and Volumio can truly deliver astounding sound for the $$$. I am not a digithead and went into this stuff with zero knowledge and got my unit up and running fast.
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Post by m4rc on Dec 18, 2019 5:48:42 GMT -5
Hi Keith, I am using Volumio on a RPi4 via HDMI. It runs well together with the RMC-1. What I cannot get to work is Native DSD playback. Volumio does not seem to detect the RMC as DSD capable and therefore converts the signal to PCM. I am playing DSF files.
Audirvana does not seem to detect the RMC as DSD capable either. Same scenario - signal conversion to PMC.
Any idea why this might be?
Thanks, Marc
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Post by brubacca on Dec 18, 2019 5:58:06 GMT -5
I am assembling a Pi 4 2GB as a Roon Endpoint. Waiting for some parts, but I'm either going to run Volumio or Ropieee.. I want to use the Pie wireless with a static IP address. (My understanding is that this is broken currently in Ropieee)
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KeithL
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Post by KeithL on Dec 18, 2019 12:39:35 GMT -5
I don't know what's going on there. Whenever we've sent DSD to an XMC-1 or an RMC-1 via HDMI, using devices like an Oppo disc player, it always seems to be detected correctly, and to play correctly. I'm not a big fan of DSD but, from what I've seen, most of the discussion about "direct DSD" in Volumio seems to refer to using the USB output. I wonder if there are some limitations in the HDMI driver there. I can't seem to find anything that specifically says it will work over HDMI... but also nothing that says it won't. I have seen it suggested in a few forums that this may be a limitation of the version of the Linux kernel used to build the current distribution of Volumio. Remember that, when you download "the Volumio ISO image", you are downloading a specific copy of Volumio, compiled and combined with a specific version of Linux. So you COULD build your own version - potentially using a new and more capable version of Raspian - which may support this. (The current Volumio build download for the Raspberry Pi is dated January 2019.) Hi Keith, I am using Volumio on a RPi4 via HDMI. It runs well together with the RMC-1. What I cannot get to work is Native DSD playback. Volumio does not seem to detect the RMC as DSD capable and therefore converts the signal to PCM. I am playing DSF files. Audirvana does not seem to detect the RMC as DSD capable either. Same scenario - signal conversion to PMC. Any idea why this might be? Thanks, Marc |
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