“To say this board punches above its weight doesn't begin to do it justice , I feed it into a Chord MScaler via the coax which in turn feeds a Chord Dave DAC via twin BNC's and considering the price of it's counterparts it holds its own remarkably well - how one reviewer on here can possibly claim it's expensive is beyond me - I've conducted side by side listening sessions with good quality streamers and this little chap is as good as any of them
A word of warning for others out there as stupid as me !!!
DONT TAKE IT OFF THE PI UNTIL YOU POWER OFF IT CAN AND WILL FRY IT
I LEARNED THE HARD WAY”
“This is a really good hat, takes the Pi4 together with this to primare np5 in terms of sonic and audible performance. The apps I tried it with all read it easily and could set as attachment. Together with the Pi4 this is a really good combination, but it's sonic performance will highly depend on your system transparency. In my system this is way better than a wiim pro but as a streaming transport. As none of the apps you can use with it supports tidal connect you have to get used to it if you coming from wiim. The difference is night and day.”
“I needed something that could play DSD audio files to my DAC and this seemed to fit the bill. Attaching it to my Pi 5 could not have been simpler and I soon had them in a case and cabled up to my hifi. When you consider how much commercial players cost, this set up was an absolute bargain and the sound quality when playing any music files is phenomenal and I could not be happier with it.
The only difficulty I had was not with the hardware but making sure the software had all the right plug-ins and codecs installed which can be a bit of a trial with DSD files but after a little detecive work everything is running fine now and I am listening to a lot of great music thanks to this little device.”
“I've a cheaper such device ( no names..) but once I'd sorted out the software I favour, this device is a considerable sound upgrade, plus I got excellent support from HFiBerry. Recommended!”
“The performance was significantly better than I expected and a noticeable step up from the non pro version. I could tell no difference between this and a dedicated streamer costing x20 more.
Highly recommended”
