aurobindosaha
Active Member
Hi
Official announcement received via email -
"Raspberry Pi 3 is a very convenient solution for playing your digital music collection. The flexibility and convenience of Raspberry Pi is not easy to ignore. What was required was a good DAC to make it fit into audiophile rack.
We are happy announce the launch of Swara M2rPi DAC.
The DACs MRP will be Rs.22,800/-.
Until Diwali, we will offer a special price of Rs.19,900/- (inclusive of taxes)."
I got mine. Now my set up is as follows
Here's my impressions -
I had a detail discussion with Siva. He mentioned that some facts that are listed below -
Thanks
Auro
Official announcement received via email -
"Raspberry Pi 3 is a very convenient solution for playing your digital music collection. The flexibility and convenience of Raspberry Pi is not easy to ignore. What was required was a good DAC to make it fit into audiophile rack.
We are happy announce the launch of Swara M2rPi DAC.
The DACs MRP will be Rs.22,800/-.
Until Diwali, we will offer a special price of Rs.19,900/- (inclusive of taxes)."
I got mine. Now my set up is as follows
- Source - 16 GB Solid State pen drive
- DAC - Acoustic Potrait Swara M2rPi
- Amplifier - Acoustic Potrait Swara Solid State Integrated Amp
- Speakers - Corrson Monitor Series MS-610 Floor Standing two way speakers
- Speaker Cable - Acoustic Potrait Thallam Audio Cables
- Interconnect - DAC ARX01A
Here's my impressions -
The music are more soothing - particularly lows and highs. Tabla sounds more fulfilling. Or when the drummer strikes the cymbal the brightness seems to have better balance and sweeter than what I have heard without this DAC.
The female vocal voice sounds more balanced between brightness and warmness. For example - Kalpana Zokarkar - voice seemed more bright, without the DAC, however, with this DAC I hear her voice has a better balance ... little towards warm
Male vocal voice sounds awesome. The grains of tone are so very clear. For example when Clapton sings Tears in heaven, I can literally feel that the singer is in front of me.
Qawwali and Sufi sounds so good with this DAC. Last 3 weeks I have been listening to mainly Qawwali , Utadji Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's voice is extremely live here. The dynamic range has definitely more reflective through this DAC. For example - listen to the vocal here - "Allaho Ho Alla Hoo" starts with pure vocal recital. I have FLAC recording of this track and I heard that part multiple times without this DAC both on the AP speakers and also Sennheiser 598 Headphones, I can vouch that this DAC has made lot of difference. I can hear more details in his voice.
Set-up is very easy. However some reason I could not connect the Pi 3 to router. The DAC and router sits close, so its not a signal issue. Its my limitation of knowledge that I could not do it. I am quite happy connecting it by wire. May be I will add a Wifi adapter in future.
I had a detail discussion with Siva. He mentioned that some facts that are listed below -
DAC uses a Texas Instrument DAC chip
Its has Raspberry Pi 3 a02082
The Power unit is built with very high end components. The cost is mainly in the linear power supply. Very High End transformer is used .... The DAC is really heavy. I have been told the resistors used are one of the best that money can buy. These are not Rs. 1.50 resistor you get in market. Resistor and many other parts are imported and each cost more than a dollar. The capacitors too are very high end. Long story short - the power unit has been built with high end components and is very much responsible for this clean sound.
The DAC has HDMI out so that you can play with the Pi 3 configuration
The DAC has 4 USB digital inputs, and one pair RCA analog output.
The source of 32 GB (solid state/spindle) can be handled by this DAC's power. Higher source volume will need external power.
RuneAudio comes pre-installed. The Pi 3 OS and RuneAudio are already there in a memory card inside, which can be changed/reconfigured as per your wish.
Thanks
Auro