Hmm that's weird may be they settled this in 2 power supply mode. I never connected the sparky to TV though. Can check sometime
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Hmm that's weird may be they settled this in 2 power supply mode. I never connected the sparky to TV though. Can check sometime
I think you are getting undervoltage message on digione. Quick Google search says lots of people get this message on rpi, maybe due to poor microusb power cable or other unknown issues, I think it should be fine until you are getting sound from digione. You may want to check with allo though
Karthik mani
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I changed to volumio setup and I removed my harddisc attached to Allo digione player... Now sound is very good... I don't know power makes this much improvement in sound quality... And another thing is loose connection between power cable and small micro USB cable
So how are you streaming now? Use Ethernet cable and disable WiFi, sound quality will increase more. If you are even more adventurous you can remove the dc converter from digione board and power it separately using a battery, you will be really surprised by the sound quality, this will require soldering though and will void the warranty for digione.
Yes new one is improved on all fronts. There is a big improvement in sound quality over older digione.
Karthik mani
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Currently using USB drive ... Will that decrease the sound quality... I'm poor in networking stuff... Don't know how to use ...
Karthik mani
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Can I use powered hard disc... To store all songs ....
You just need to run a ethernet cable from your router to the RPI.
Using the mac address, configure a static ip address for the RPI on the router. This is always better than configuring the Static IP in Volumio.
I use an externally powered USB hard disk aswell as a NAS drive.
Additionally, the USB hard drive is connected via Audioquest jitterbug.
Do you find any difference in sound quality between usb or nas, my poor ears can't distinguish or my equipment is not that resolving.
NAS has a very little edge.
Stupendous Man
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Tidal family is pretty cheap, select Turkish server on a Turkey VPN for dirt cheap TIDAL sub.
its 6 usd per month per member, in my terms its not cheap,
power does make difference. discussed on several threads on this forum. One other design constraint on RPI is that all USB ports are on the same bus and shared same power hence distortions due to drawing power by USB drives will impact your output. That is what devices like jitterbug claim to resolve to an extent. Networked access of audio is still better although ethernet and usb share same data bus and bandwidth on RPI. Powered drives i havent compared but i stay away from plugging anything in the USB. Probably with separate power per board design in Digione Signature or tweaking allo usbbridge will do away with this problem permanently but i am yet to test that
Stupendous Man
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Use Turkey IP on VPN and signup on turkish server. It's very low.
Thanks will try
How do you find CXN
heliumflight
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I find it to be a one box solution for all your needs. It is future proof.
I used to have Cambridge audio stream magic 6 v1 dac/streamer. I had compared the spdif out from stream magic to older digione and streamagic was simply not upto the level of digione. For dac quality, streamagic was an average dac imo, not sure how much improvement cxn is.
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In dacs and streamers nothing can be termed as future proof
Yes some dacs and streamers do add some features by firmware updates but even that can't make any drastic change in what that component can do
And mostly those dacs / streamers are on expensive side
If future proof in terms of software nothing can beat something powered by raspberry pi or Allo sparky
So you gain some , you loose some
Pick your choice
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