Audirvana

[struth]

Although Audirvana is not available on RPI3, my simplistic understanding of it is that it up-samples the music (no doubt using a proprietary algorithm). While my Caiman SEG was away getting an upgrade I played about with SOX up-sampling in Picoreplayer with my old RPI3 and an Audiophonics ES9023 Sabre DAC. Using the "Goldilocks" example from Archimago I certainly got an improvement in the sound from 44.1KHz material up-sampled to 96KHz. I tried it with the SEG when I got it back but the same settings arguably degraded the sound. If you have PCP it might be worth a try to see if it helps with your DAC.

Has any one else tried SOX up-sampling and had good results?

used sox with volumio2.. sounds good to me.. actually it is moode i think altho volumio possibly use it to.. same control levels so probably is

[AJSki2fly]

AV is not available on the RPi but can be used with an Rpi very well. Just select the Rpi as preferred output device on the AV menu (uses PnP).

I don't think that the SEG can deal with DSD directly (I may be wrong) but my Rpi/Digione certainly can. Tried several upsampling options and settled on DSD128. Sounds fantastic. Very analogue into SEG with new Dorado power module!

Geoff

Completely agree

[Sherwood]

Thanks. RPI3 on the list too now

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You may find an Rpi and audio board for sale on this forum. Several members (including myself) have bought more than one Rpi, moving up through the price range as they go along. If you post a WTD add you should be able to get a complete Rpi setup in a case for around 50 quid to see if RPi streaming is for you.

[Bonky]

I've just bought the A+ for use with my iMac and 2 Beresford DACs (one connected from the headphone socket to the DAC; the other is streamed via ethernet).

Any recommended settings under 'preferences'?

Thanks.

Richard.

[Sherwood]

I've just bought the A+ for use with my iMac and 2 Beresford DACs (one connected from the headphone socket to the DAC; the other is streamed via ethernet).

Any recommended settings under 'preferences'?

Thanks.

Richard.

I am not familiar with the Mac version or the processing power of your Mac. On my Intel NUC with i5 processor and 16gb of DDR4 ram I can upsample to DSD 128. DSD 256 works but is a bit glitchy. To my ears, the DSD 128 setting sounds very analogue and bass in particular seems deeper and more textured than without upsampling.

[struth]

Not been using the dsd feature. just upscaling to 32/192.. that uses well over a gig of memory and about all i can spare if i want to use pc for anything else like browsing etc. It handles that tho... Ive got 6gb of ram and i5 processor. As yoiu say is sounds very good both on main system and even on my headphone system.

[Edward]

I tried AV a while back but did not find the sound appealing. I probably did something wrong. But, given that you guys speak so highly of it, I may give it another go. From a technical point of view does anyone know what AV does that is different to say Roon, JRiver or Tidal?

These days I basically just use Roon and upscale to 24/384 and output to a NOS dac (yeah yeah I know a contradiction there but sounds good).

[Bonky]

Thanks everyone.
Richard/bonky