'Analog Dinosaur' succumbs to the joys of FBA : enter Raspberry Pi 2/IQ-Audio DAC+!!

[struth]

Not come across his name here....shows I am not paying attention.....and it was Johnny Haynes(the footballer) got the haynes right
If I get one and I may yet as Mike is offered kindly to set one up for me, then I may be after a psu if it makes a difference.

[Marco]

You've not heard of Paul Hynes??

Dude, you *do* need to pay attention! See here: http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...Power-Supplies

And here: http://www.paulhynesdesign.com/index.html

Also my sig, next to the details of my modded Techy. Paul designed the individually regulated PSU for it, which is one of the major reasons why my T/T sounds how it does.

Some homework for you, my boy!

Marco.

[struth]

I have heard of him of course just never noticed he was a member here. .....youve never heard of johnny haynes

[Marco]

Probably before my time

Marco.

[struth]

His best years would have been....a little before mine tbh.....first £100 a week player he was. Died in Scotland about 10 years ago.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_...eer_statistics

[The Black Adder]

Most routers these days have USB ports so you can just plug in any USB hard drive on to the network, no need for NAS or any other acronym as long as you know how to set up your router. That takes away a little of the tech talk for some.

I set up my router with an external HDD yesterday... a bit of a faff and the TalkTalk router isn't the fastest but it works fine.

[The Black Adder]

Uh??! What did you do with the BBC Micro?

I worked with some guys in Sheffield who were making some modular programming courses that was based on BBC Basic. They needed some GUI work, so seeing as I have a games background and from Sheffield... lol and had a beeb back in 83 it was fun to revisit.

[John]

Ah, that's interesting.... In your experience, then, does the quality of Ethernet cable also make a difference? This is an area I have no experience in whatsoever, so I'm always keen to learn

What about upgrading the mains lead that supplies power to your hard-drives? Lol.... Hey, who knows?

First thing for me, however, will be to sort out a nice linear PSU, for the Pi.

Marco.

I imagine the power supply will make the biggest difference and sure the one Paul will make will be special
I only had a bit of experience with different Ethernet cables when I used to use Jplay with a 2PC set up and yes there was a difference between CAT 5 6 and 7. I had spare 7 lying around.
I use a very different approach so cannot comment about how the Pi will respond but I suspect a small noticeable difference (in my case it made the difference to being able to listen to streaming to actually really enoying it) From my own trails I would say the connection is the key part to this. Once your P system has settled if you wish you can borrow the treatment (very easy to do) and see if it makes a difference.
From my own point of view getting away from USB is good as it will only get you so far. This is something I heard on Tony C super pc based transport

[Jimbo]

I imagine the power supply will make the biggest difference and sure the one Paul will make will be special
I only had a bit of experience with different Ethernet cables when I used to use Jplay with a 2PC set up and yes there was a difference between CAT 5 6 and 7. I had spare 7 lying around.
I use a very different approach so cannot comment about how the Pi will respond but I suspect a small noticeable difference (in my case it made the difference to being able to listen to streaming to actually really enoying it) From my own trails I would say the connection is the key part to this. Once your P system has settled if you wish you can borrow the treatment (very easy to do) and see if it makes a difference.
From my own point of view getting away from USB is good as it will only get you so far. This is something I heard on Tony C super pc based transport

I have heard the difference between Cat5 and Cat7 myself and indeed i know a dealer who has a system set up to demonstrate the two very effectively.

[Marco]

Interesting, chaps... I'll let the streaming system settle in a little (as I've noticed that the Pi-DAC has improved over the last few days, perhaps due to 'burn-in'), and get the linear PSU sorted before messing around with Ethernet cables.

What's the difference then between Cat5, 6 or 7? Speed of data transmission, or what? And are there 'audiophile' versions of Ethernet cables available?

Marco.