Ok, cool
Marco.
P.S When's your radio show going back on the air, or has that gone for a burton now?
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Ok, cool
Marco.
P.S When's your radio show going back on the air, or has that gone for a burton now?
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I would agree that the set-up time can be tiresome - but once done that's it. After that starting the Pi is a breeze and should take little more time than booting up your Mac Mini, shut down ditto.Originally Posted by PaulStewart
Yes I have done all this, that's what took the time
I have tried my Mac Mini 2010, outputting to various DACs via TOSLINK, using a couple of alternative players, including AudioNirvana and have to say the SQ is in every respect complete pants compared to the PI/IQaudio kit. I use WAV files on an SSD plugged into the Pi and playback is immediate and rich ... almost on a par with my other analogue sources in every respect.
Well worth the admittedly fiddly initial set up... and certainly the best bang for buck I have yet to meet
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That's also my experience, streaming WAV (24-bit) files from the NAS, although my T/T, playing top-notch audiophile vinyl recordings, still remains notably my best sounding source. However, it should be at some SIXTY times the cost of the RPi/IQ Audio DAC!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Soon I hope, I'm currently working on a documentary about a a HiFi company which is taking up a lot of time, once the bulk of that is shot, I'll set up the syudio in the new house and get it back on. Check out the other shows on More Music Radio though, they are really good
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Cool. Will do
Your other show is really missed, though! Btw, did we ever get to see pics of your system in situ in your new house? I don't recall seeing any posted on the AoS Gallery section....
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Trade: The Right One
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Posted a while ago HERE.Cool. Will do
Your other show is really missed, though! Btw, did we ever get to see pics of your system in situ in your new house? I don't recall seeing any posted on the AoS Gallery section....
Marco.
See you later, I'm going home to listen to it
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Cheers, mate. Must've missed that. Enjoy!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Ah yes, thanks Marco, interestingly (or not) Moode defaults to 0 on the dial.Sorry to nip in here, Neal...
Not quite true, mate. Although it'll 'set' to 100%, the level will default to the last used PCM setting. Therefore, if that was 86, 90 or whatever, that's the input level that will have been applied, when the volume control has been disabled, even though it says '100' on the dial
Marco.
On another note for anyone interested, Moode has more resampling options. I looked at Volumio 1.55 again and its quite limited in what it offers IE: Its not possible to set 88.2 or 176.4/16 etc. or in other words an integer resampling option if your base material is 44.1
Listening in a Foo free Zone...
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
I had another play last night with Volumio and Moode ... got the same 'mount error (13)' with both of them trying to get a folder on the NAS mounted, while Rune Audio is playing happily. I bought a second SD card so I wouldn't muck up my Rune Audio settings. I've never managed to get a note out of either Volumio or Moode.
Has anyone ever come across and cracked this problem? Looking on the Volumio web site I see quite a few people going back to March with the same issue and no-one really getting an answer. I have checked and there appears to be no pathname bits missing that I can see, or any password issue (tried both guest and admin/password options).
On resampling ... my Audio Note DAC only goes up to 24/96, the odd higher res file I have doesn't play, does this resampling setting mean I can get it do downsample on the fly to 96kbit?
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I've never managed to get anything out of Volumio at all. Though I have not seen any mount errors, as far as I can tell, everything looks OK, but there's just no sound! I have not really tried any of the other systems - maybe I'll have to give Rune a go...
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