I keep seeing posts raving about Allo dacs and have finally found some time to look into them a bit further. I am still old school, transport to Young Dac with LPS. Sounds good to me and has multiple inputs and accepts via a Squeeze box Touch 192/24. I have most of my music ripped to a separate hard drive inside my somewhat old PC. Mixture of Flac and non compressed. Sound wise I found the transport dac route better than streaming via the Touch so am still using CDs.
The big question is , would an RPI Katana option give me a step improvement in sound quality and is it worth the hassle.
As I understand it with the Katana option I would need.
Katana/RPI Player combo, Isolater, and dual PSU all in a dust attracting case. Plus an external touch sensitive screen attached via USB to the RPI to control it and some player software loaded somewhere ? not quite sure where? To avoid having my PC switched on I would need a NAS and move the music files to this. I have a CAT6 cable running from my router to a switch near the hifi.
I would then be able to play music via the Katana in a similar way to the Touch but with better quality? but what about other sources, cd, dvd, tv etc that also feed into the young dac; is there any way to connect them to the RPI, eg coxial/optical to USB ?
Looking for basic easy to understand suggestions and advice to help me understand the allo approach better
many thanks
Ian