“I'm happy with the hat, but I don't think my choice to install on Raspberry Pi 5 was optimum, Pi 4 would have been much easier.
On Pi 5 it's definitely not plug-and-play and took a lot of trial and error to get it working. The key for me was to:
1. Specify IQaudIO DAC Plus in the DAC Model setting of Audio Output under General Playback Options
2. Specify this in /boot/config.txt: dtoverlay=iqaudio-dacplus”
“Perfect addition to my 2nd pi 4 and the multi room audio player setup.Great sound quality for the money, I have the sound and functionality of far more expensive off the peg network streamer. Swift delivery, good communication from seller.”
“The pi pro dac is incredible, the dac chip is Burr Brown(TI) 32 bit with direct outputs so no coupling caps, no op amps, no mute circuits, this is good because they can all degrade the signal. In the pi implementation it probably can only use a maximum of 24 bits but no matter it's ample.
Initially it sounds clear but a bit gritty, give it a day to run in and it smooths out. Musically it can handle some big complex passages with pace. I kind of don't understand because normally big local capacitors are needed for this amount of scale but the board is fairly light of those. Maybe it's the large 5 amp power supply that's doing it. Suffice to say if this were a cd player it would be a very good one.”
“Excellent sound from such good value device. Plugged into home hi-fi and gives noticable better sound than Rpi internal sound and rivals components costing much more.”
