IanCanada's Latest RPi GB Goodies Impressions... and your tweaks, mods and hints...

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If I understand correctly, the SC cut family. The best should be the 5mHz SC cut. It's spec beats all. PCB is under development. If listening to redbook, it should outperform all. We will have to wait for pcb to be finished and get listening reports from Supersurfer.
 
#665
Ian is hearing more ESs chips thanold pcm, but I assume having the previous boards of Anddea Mori, means he has some 45 to 48 at cut first that should beat easily both the ndk and crysteq.

If Ian I should try it first and then report.
 
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amigo1 said:
Hi iancanada! Please explain, why you did not use Beaglebone Black for your projects?
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Hi Amigo1
Ian will answer your question. FWIW I will offer my perspective on why I moved from BBB to Rpi running FIFOpi. When I started, the BBB seemed like the most elegant solution, as it supported external clocks. Two innovators developed reclocking solutions, (Twisted Pair & ACKO) and Meiro developed drivers. I used it with good results for some time. But there was very little software support, and you really need to be proficient in Linux to support the Meiro distribution. Volumio never kept their BBB version up to date, and it appeared the numbers were with the Rpi. So when I had a hardware issue, rather than struggle to relearn enough Linux to sort it out, I bailed and went to Rpi with FIFOpi. Could not be happier. As a non technical user I find it dead simple and completely reliable. It just works... and the sound is excellent. My take away is, if you have the Linux skills, either are fine. If you do not, the pi is the way to go as there is a huge community of helpful people who are tolerant of non Unix gurus. And, with Ian's FIFO, you get a really flexible platform that allows you to easily swap clocks and it provides LED's that tell you what is going on if there is an issue. I also like the compact form factor with the pi Hat approach.
 
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iancanada said:
That's a really interesting project. But I would be more interested in a solution that can switch between RPi and USB streamer.

Just hope it works with FifoPi and HATs above it.

Regards,
Ian
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That would be great. Also if it had spdif input additionality. With toslink input I would connect Chromecast Audio and say goodbye to RPI 🙂 at least for Tidal streaming.
Ian maybe you could design some I2S switch board. Put it inbetween FifoPi and RPI. With this, one could connect either RPI or whatever I2S source one has. This would cover all users needs, made your FiFoPi platform agnostic and scale up your business 😉.
 
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wlowes said:
Hi Amigo1
Ian will answer your question. FWIW I will offer my perspective on why I moved from BBB to Rpi running FIFOpi. When I started, the BBB seemed like the most elegant solution, as it supported external clocks. Two innovators developed reclocking solutions, (Twisted Pair & ACKO) and Meiro developed drivers. I used it with good results for some time. But there was very little software support, and you really need to be proficient in Linux to support the Meiro distribution. Volumio never kept their BBB version up to date, and it appeared the numbers were with the Rpi. So when I had a hardware issue, rather than struggle to relearn enough Linux to sort it out, I bailed and went to Rpi with FIFOpi. Could not be happier. As a non technical user I find it dead simple and completely reliable. It just works... and the sound is excellent. My take away is, if you have the Linux skills, either are fine. If you do not, the pi is the way to go as there is a huge community of helpful people who are tolerant of non Unix gurus. And, with Ian's FIFO, you get a really flexible platform that allows you to easily swap clocks and it provides LED's that tell you what is going on if there is an issue. I also like the compact form factor with the pi Hat approach.
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Thank you for your answer!
There is Debian 10.0 2019-07-07 4GB SD IoT image for BeagleBone Black BeagleBoard.org - latest-images and nо need in Volumio now. Moreover, there is new ArchLinux image Support for Botic Linux driver for lazy users 🙂.
 
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wlowes said:
Hi Amigo1
Ian will answer your question. FWIW I will offer my perspective on why I moved from BBB to Rpi running FIFOpi. When I started, the BBB seemed like the most elegant solution, as it supported external clocks. Two innovators developed reclocking solutions, (Twisted Pair & ACKO) and Meiro developed drivers. I used it with good results for some time. But there was very little software support, and you really need to be proficient in Linux to support the Meiro distribution. Volumio never kept their BBB version up to date, and it appeared the numbers were with the Rpi. So when I had a hardware issue, rather than struggle to relearn enough Linux to sort it out, I bailed and went to Rpi with FIFOpi. Could not be happier. As a non technical user I find it dead simple and completely reliable. It just works... and the sound is excellent. My take away is, if you have the Linux skills, either are fine. If you do not, the pi is the way to go as there is a huge community of helpful people who are tolerant of non Unix gurus. And, with Ian's FIFO, you get a really flexible platform that allows you to easily swap clocks and it provides LED's that tell you what is going on if there is an issue. I also like the compact form factor with the pi Hat approach.
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As far as external clocks:
Raspberry Pi 3B+ modified clock crystal TCXO warm-filled crystal oscillator upgrade crystal oscillator
 
#679
amigo1 said:
NDK NZ2520SD Oscillators are better!
See ​PI2AES - Pro Audio Shield 502DAC - PRO AUDIO SHIELD - Pi2 Design
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Yep. That is great I believe like allos Digione signature. My point however is actually to get rid of rpi completelly (use toslink receiver of rpi footprint instead) and then use Chromecast Audio as toslink streamer. With this you get rid of all linux hassle.
 
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