Recent content by drg_hifi

I listen to Tidal Masters though I have to compare it with the Amazon HD Music 192khz/24 bit when I'll get the chance, everyone is saying its superior. In regard to FLAC compression, my mistake, but I bet they are using the best compression, because there is lots of processing power in the...

Looking very nice. I will make the post, can't wait, but it will be in few months, now I am kind of busy. Besides digital coaxial output I would like to add an optical SPDIF output too. I know most of them stop at 44.1 khz with 16 bit but I would like to have this option on it too. I will build...

Thanks manicm. I will like to add a bit more. Compression is in many places over the Internet, invisible to the naked eye. But it makes sense in certain places and in some it doesn't. Examples: an email server where there are many email accounts and where the email 'database' is stored. There it...

Thanks. I'll probably make a post when I start building this setup. For now I have one more question, what case did you use for Pi board? Ps: didn't meant to hijack the thread.

I see, you turn on UPnP on Raspberry Pi Volumio and you stream to it using the app. Thanks. Doesn't it work over DLNA as well?

Excellent thread. I wish I build one sometime this year. Can you detail a bit how can you add Tidal over UPNP? I don't have the parts now, I am just asking if this is possible with the free Volumio.

I though of adding that info for people looking a more detailed/definitive answer to as weather and/or what type of switch to buy and that any direct effect on sound quality does not exist. Besides that on which we all agree, one of the configurations that can affect the bandwidth for music...

A thing that is not well known is that expensive switches (managed/unmanaged) have a lot more backplane capacity than cheap ones. This is almost a rule. Example: cheap/regular switch with 8 x 1 Gig ports might have only 2 Gb backplane switching capacity, if you top all 8 ports with 1 Gb traffic...

Try https://handbrake.fr/features.php

My opinion is that dedicated bandwidth still costs. Compression has few other benefits besides smaller sizes: you can afford to loose few bytes per transfer and still decompression will still be 100% accurate due to a small recovery area included in the compressed file. Also, there is DRM...

Go for FTP Cat 6 cable, something cheap should do the work. That's a shielded cable, that's what I also use and I don't lose a bit. Layer 2 and 3 protocol from TCP/IP stack will retransmit any lost bytes so never worry. For details: at layer 2 there is CRC - cyclic redundancy check which detects...

You can use a "streamer" device instead of the computer, this way you don't need to power on the computer to output the stream. In other words the build in circuitry of the computer is pretty weak compared do any decent DAC or even external USB board(if you want something cheap just get an...