Best way to get the best out of lossless files?

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Zootalaws said:
A Raspberry Pi 3, with an IQ Audio Pi-DAC+, and optionally a Pi-Amp for Pi-DAC+, a matching case, a laptop power supply and a large (64G+) Flash drive will give you everything you need. It ends up being the size of two or three decks of cards.

The Pi-DAC+ has a built-in high-quality headphone amp, the Pi-Amp for Pi-DAC+ gives you 35+35W class-D amplifier to drive a decent set of speakers.

You would get in under $200, let alone the $1000 of your budget.

The IQ Audio gear is brilliant, refined, reliable.

Use Moode as your music player and you can stream, play from HDD/USB, play radio over the net, be your own AP and stream at the beach, if you want. It's clearly the best music player available for the Pi.

If you want some small, transportable speakers, have a look at NXT (the technology, not a brand name). Flat, light and with a surprisingly good sound.

No doubt panned by the cognoscenti, as a travelling set, the Pi with NXT is hard to beat.
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I wasn't aware of IQAudio, but I thought of similar route, so I bought Hifiberry Dac. I haven't tried yet, because using Raspberry Pi requires external monitor and kbd/mouse, so it's a kind of hassle.
I wonder how good sound quality IQAudio DAC has compared to Hifiberry DAC.
 
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mlise said:
Folks like the Dragonfly DACs. Cheaper and standalone might be an old metal backed IPOD. They have great DACs and are really cheap. I picked up a gen 3 classic IPOD a couple weeks ago for $3 big dollars with $5 big dollars shipping. There are adapters to replace the little hard drive with a CF card for $8 big dollars with free Amazon Prime shipping and $30 bucks or so for a CF card. Store everything as Apple Lossless. Only trick is you need to charge them with Firewire. Folks don't know that and list the IPODs as 'as is' because they won't charge on USB. The upright docks have a line out that skips the volume control, or just plug good headphones or high efficiency speakers into the headphone jack.
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I guess I will go this route of adding USB DAC+headphone for the best convenience, as I will carry my laptop with me anyway.
 
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Doug Kim said:
I wasn't aware of IQAudio, but I thought of similar route, so I bought Hifiberry Dac. I haven't tried yet, because using Raspberry Pi requires external monitor and kbd/mouse, so it's a kind of hassle.
I wonder how good sound quality IQAudio DAC has compared to Hifiberry DAC.
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No need for external monitor/keyboard. You can communicate with and control the RPi over wifi with laptop/tablet/phone using eg Moode Audio on the Pi.
 
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infinia said:
yeah and the OP's Korea leads the best
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I am in USA now, but I visit Korea (South 🙂 ) often, and I confirm that the high speed Internet is everywhere, I mean HIGH speed.
I have very expensive high bandwidth high speed internet service here in USA, but it is order of magnitude slower than the speed in my parents home in Korea, and they use "basic" service.
It's possible in Korea because there's high demand everywhere ( = high population everywhere). It's not possible in USA where buffalo roams.
 
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I would like to thank Zootalaws for suggesting Moode Audio on RPi.
I also would like to blame Zootalaws for suggesting it too late.
This is a New World!

I am using Rune Audio by the way, and trying to figure out Moode Audio on my older RPi B+.
 
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