Sorry been away so long!
1st, thanks Soundcheck for your work supporting this DAC AND your tutorial on upsampling!
2nd, thanks also to the piCorePlayer team for 3.20 Beta. Using that made finally trying out the Allo Boss an easy task... having the Boss driver included was critical, having GUI access to the driver's ALSA parms was great, being able to save those parms was super, and having the Audio-specific upgrades was a super bonus!
With the 3.20 Beta loaded, I finally got a chance to try the Boss DAC this weekend. I've been really happy with my modified HFBD+P over the past several months. I've been running it in slave mode on an Allo Kali, using 4 good power supplies, with 1 feeding the R-Pi, another the Kali, and 2 more feeding the HFBD+P's 5v and 3.3v separately. It was sounding very good this way and I prefered it to running it in master mode.
Based on this experience with the HFBD+P, I setup the Boss DAC on a Kali reclocker board with 3 good power supplies, again 1 feeding the Pi, 1 the Kali, and the 3rd the Boss.
It only took a couple of minutes to hear that it was handily beating my modified HFBD+P. I know I need to give it a couple of weeks for the parts to settle-in before I do any really serious comparisons, but some of the technical tweaks Allo included in the Boss seemed to be working very well.
While I'm burning it in, has anyone done comparisons between running the Boss in slave (on a Kali) versus master modes? Given the better clocks and power regimes on the Boss versus the HFBD+P, I won't assume it will be better in slave mode even though the HFBD+P works better that way for me.
Also, Soundcheck or anyone else, CAN the SOX upsampling be done on a LMS server running on a Window (8) PC? And if so, how?
Pretty pumped!
TIA!
Greg in Mississippi