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Wow. What a brilliantly simple idea. Thank you.

I too replaced a logitech touch (I still have it, 'just in case'), by an Allo digione player. A Pi (3 or 4), with an addon card to provide an spdif output to my DAC. It runs picoreplayer for...

Just had a quick look at vortexbox - I installed the 2.5 beta in a VM. Some things that would put me off using it: (but all probably fixable)
1) based on a very old fedora (v25, 5 years old) and...

Ahh. My comments were general linux-related - I have never used a Vortex box. but here goes.

1) I would completely separate the task of replacing the hdd by an ssd from everything else.

2) You...

It would be interesting to know if their 'no' means a) it is not technically possible, or b) we'd prefer you to buy a new unit from us.

if a), they are probably wrong.

Under Linux this is trivial - use the dd command to copy from old to new drive - and that's it.

Almost.

It's not a Linux issue, but a filesystem issue. Any journaling filesystem (ext4, btrfs, both mainly linux, ntfs, mainly windows) uses a journal (log) of changes, to guard against...

Consider a Graham Slee phono. I have one (MM) for a 10x5, works great - but the main thing is - you can arrange to borrow
any of his kit for home demo for just the cost of postage.

On my digione, the signal voltage thru the BNC socket is twice that thru the RCA socket. (as the standard requires). This might explain any differences you might hear. And in my case, it also made...

Maybe. what i think happens is

on - preamp is not conected to power amp - signal is intended to go from preamp to tape record head, to tape, read back off tape replay head, then back to power...

My very old Nytech ca252 has a pre-out/power in socket, and I've just found out that Nytech's current integrated, ca352, still has one - but at £2k, might be too much.

This might be obvious, but...

My 4Gb Pi 4, even when running LMS as well as squeezelite, only used 1.5G of the 4G available. It did not touch swap. My 8Gb Pi does the same.

I have no idea why your 4GB Pi used swap and mine did...

So to summarise, I think: It looks like the improvements are real, ie we have both heard them. And it looks like the changes happened somewhere between Pi3s and earlier, and current 8G Pi4s, We...

Prompted by your post, I've just spent a few days experimenting with different Pi versions. My system is rpi/allo signature -> rme adi-2 dac > active nytech/arc amp & speakers.

Software is...

I find this very interesting, as I'm using a Pi4 with piCoreplayer, and am thinking about running LMS on the Pi too (my LMS is currently on a separate machine). Re Ram use on the Pi - have you...

Yes, if you have picoreplayer on a Pi, you can optionally run LMS on the same Pi (installed and configured from the pcp config pages), you can then point LMS at local (eg USB) music files, and then...

RME ADI-2 Dac. In my case, a worthwhile upgrade from the SEG. But not earth-shattering. You might reasonably decide that the SEG is good enough.

Some years ago, while experimenting with attenuators, I got these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0057G44WM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

in-line attenuators with...

I just wanted to add - what seems complicated is indeed simple to start with, but then, over the years, you tweak things, and that's what makes it appear complicated. Here's what I did:

Starting...

Just for completeness....

I use either 'asunder' or 'sound juicer' to rip CDs (running in linux) to flac files. They both get the meta-data over the network, but asunder sometimes finds the data...

Hi Allo..

Talking about being on the case .. I have a digi sig, upgraded from the original digi - do you have any plans to offer a metal case for the sig? The metal case for the digione was way...

I use a WiFi dongle with my Pi3/digione. I needed it because I am using the allo metal case that (I assume, I never tried it) would block wireless to the on-board wifi.

I'm using picoreplayer, and...

Just a small point. the squeezox software, both client and server, is most emphatically NOT proprietary - it is open source, - you get the source code, and will forever be able to (or get someone...

Take this for what it's worth....

I have an allo digione player (it comes with a Pi 3), running picoreplayer (a logitech client - squeezelite), taking flac files from LMS (logitech media server),...

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