The ALLO Audio music steamer - Pic heavy review

[ALLO.com]

I've asked this question before too. It would be very interesting to have the 2.1 run in dual mono mode.

Andre, could you ask your tech team this?

>>> hi all, we will take this up as soon as all is stabilized with Volumio. Will keep you posted its on the to do list.

thank you all for your feedback and comments.
We read them and implement all we can.

regards
Andre

[Cycleallday]

Which mode are you using your 2.1 in? 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2?
Edit: OK, I see from a previous post that you're running Moode and no sub. I'm comparing Moode and Volumio and I have a suspicion that there's more bass with the latter.

Jonners your post indicates you may know how to switch modes on the Piano - at present the only option (aside from the TI software) is the Max2Play software which Allo promotes as the default option for the Vana player. I have not yet tried it (it seems there is a short free license for it) but I plan to look into it as soon as time permits. Is there another option you are aware of?

Mel

[Cycleallday]

No lack of bass in my Pi/MoOde/Piano 2.1/Kali setup in fact I'd say it was better/deeper/cleaner than with the IQAudio DAC previously.

Mike in a previous post you said:

"My bass was a little light and recessed as well, but I SSH'd into the Pi and set the alsamixer to -4.50db which was I think must be near 100 on the scale as next notch up was into the red, as it was originally way down at the bottom of the scale, as soon as I did that, oh boy bass was back big time, made me jump lol"

Maybe I am hearing that same "light bass" as I have not changed any defaults in Moode 3.1

Its the actual settings used for the 2.1 setup I am trying to investigate as I do not fully understand why there would be a need to apply a cut over level to the main DAC (or even the sub DAC?). I don't have a sub but would have thought the sub speakers onboard filtering would take care of selecting the bass level it needs so in theory the sub DAC could run as a normal config? Just thinking out loud here as no experience of subs.

Mel

[mikeyb]

I have been running a sub in my Hi-fi system for a few weeks just to help the little standmounts that I have, I'm pretty sure the standard cut off is 80-100mhz so that's maybe why the Piano 2.1 is set at 80.

I've since removed the sub as it's not really needed now that my phono stage is much better than my built in stage in my amp. I didn't really need it with the Pi anyway.

[jonners]

Jonners your post indicates you may know how to switch modes on the Piano - at present the only option (aside from the TI software) is the Max2Play software which Allo promotes as the default option for the Vana player. I have not yet tried it (it seems there is a short free license for it) but I plan to look into it as soon as time permits. Is there another option you are aware of?

Mel

There are settings in Volumio for the Piano 2.1 which give a choice of 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2 operation. If using one or two subs there's an option that is supposed to set the crossover point, between 60Hz and 200Hz. I say 'supposed to' because I couldn't get it to work in 2.2 mode as intended. I posted my findings on the Volumio forum and Allo replied that there are bugs in the DSP which they are trying to fix.

[ALLO.com]

Hi , yes we are working on this and will let you know as soon as possible.

[Cycleallday]

Hi , yes we are working on this and will let you know as soon as possible.

Andre, do the setting changes in Volumio and Max2Play actually write to the DAC to make the changes persistent (i.e. until the next change) or do they only apply software filters which control the DACS during the actual playing of music?

Jonners, thanks for the info on Volumio I will check out the discussion there.

Mel

[r100]

as said, i switched back to moode 3.1 with the iqdac pro setting .. i find it much more natural than the setting in Volumio ... think what u like .. moode is less overdriven (less sweet) in the bass department

[ALLO.com]

hi to all.
the latest volumio image for RPI is out
https://volumio.org/get-started/
please dont change DSP filter settings for now.

regards and please share comments.

regards
Andre

[r100]

I've used it but went back to Moode 3.1 which sounds as good to me. Thank's for all the work !