It took me lot of whatsapp messages to make them respond. I think both fabtolab and warehouse are the same company with different pricing for the same product. They use exactly the same ecommerce software and have a big overlap on the products they sell.
RPI 4B streamer + Topping E30 or Allo Boss 2 player
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Which Os to use ( Moode , Volumio etc.) to get the best output out of Boss 2 Player and which Power Supply.
Any Case option to attach a touchscreen to it. Something link the link below
from Vincent Fong video on youtube. (
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Any Case option to attach a touchscreen to it. Something link the link below
DIY Raspberry Pi Player Kit Unboxing and Assembly
DIY Raspberry Pi Streamer / Transport / Player KIT
HK$1,400 | Condition: Brand new | 玩法及用途： -digital transport / streamer -外接HDD / SSD作為music server -裝DAC HAT作為解碼 -外接CD ROM作為CD Player / Ripper -media box等等... 此KIT已包含所有製作零件，内置線性電源。買家需具備基本焊接技巧，製作時間大約2至3小時。海外買家需支付額外10%作爲PayPal附加費用及包裝費用。視乎托運地區，運費另計。 黑色面板另加HKD40 機箱： -CNC及激光開孔，全鋁合金外殼...
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moode, volumio are not os. They are just set of packaged programs to help a newbie who has very little idea about linux configure it.
The OS is always raspbian whether you use moode, dietpi, volumio, etc. They will all sound the same, unless these distributions consume too much CPU to do their job of displaying an user interface.
I have found moode to be the one that does the least destructive changes to the original OS
I personally don't use any of them and use the Raspbian OS and installing neccessary software (mostly the same ones that moode, volumio, etc do). The advantge of using raspbian directly are
1) Latest updates
2) 64 bit kernel vs 32 bit kernel used by moode, volumio, etc
3) No bloatware. No web server to screw up your CPU usage. Audio can be more pristine because of the lesser CPU usage.
Disadvantage
1) Requires litlle bit of knowledge of linux (basic knowledge - how to login, how to install software, how. to shutdown).
Any Case option to attach a touchscreen to it. Something link the link belowfrom Vincent Fong video on youtube. (
DIY Raspberry Pi Player Kit Unboxing and Assembly
DIY Raspberry Pi Streamer / Transport / Player KIT
HK$1,400 | Condition: Brand new | 玩法及用途： -digital transport / streamer -外接HDD / SSD作為music server -裝DAC HAT作為解碼 -外接CD ROM作為CD Player / Ripper -media box等等... 此KIT已包含所有製作零件，内置線性電源。買家需具備基本焊接技巧，製作時間大約2至3小時。海外買家需支付額外10%作爲PayPal附加費用及包裝費用。視乎托運地區，運費另計。 黑色面板另加HKD40 機箱： -CNC及激光開孔，全鋁合金外殼...
That is a standard ribbon cable to connect raspberry pi to a lcd monitor with touchscreen.
Raspberry PI Touchscreen Connection for 7in. Touch Display
How to connect a Raspberry PI to the official Raspberry PI touchscreen or 7 inch LCD touch display. Power and data connections.
If you are going to do lot of diy, you probably need the allo boss2 with the acrylic case and save few ruppees. That vincent fong guy has used precise CNC to adapt the allo boss2 to his diy case. So you too will require access to CNC service to achieve what he did. ALso he is using another distribution named picoreplayer which gives you LMS. So you might want to take a look at that in addition to moode, volumio, etc
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They responded immediately today.
They must have improved now. I guess I was unlucky and this was last year ((RC Oct 2021). It also could have been the covid thing when staff weren't going to office regularly.
Is it possible to add optical in port to Allo BOSS 2 player to be able to use optical out from tv and use the dac in the player along with the powered QA M20HD speakers. Thanks
bobbyprajan
Active Member
Dont think so
No. If you want optical in, you should forget about boss2 and you will be better with another DAC which has usb, optical and spdif inputs. Maybe you want a streamer also. In that case just get RPI3 / RPI4. Install moode, volumio, whatever. Do the DIY with the lcd panel, etc and connect the external dac usb to the RPI usb port.
I have both. Can't make out the difference in sound quality
jigarpatel
Active Member
I have rpi zero 2w powered using Nirvana or power bank, I can't make out difference between nirvana and power bank.
So now I use Nirvana only.
bobbyprajan
Active Member
Try diyaudiocart.com. They seems to have stock
Please share your findings whenever you get a chance to try this, I am also looking for I2S output budget streamer for my setup.
I did try it and it works without any issue. I just had to enable I2S in /boot/config.txt
RPI 4B streamer + Topping E30 or Allo Boss 2 player
Made the changes.. now need to figure out a connector for I2S output to dac. any pointer for it? So today I finally tried it and it works You can take the I2S output from the usbridge GPIO header inside. I connected my kali + piano 2.1 I2S card. It gets detected and it works. The only change I...
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Thanks for the prompt response!I did try it and it works without any issue. I just had to enable I2S in /boot/config.txt
RPI 4B streamer + Topping E30 or Allo Boss 2 player
Made the changes.. now need to figure out a connector for I2S output to dac. any pointer for it? So today I finally tried it and it works You can take the I2S output from the usbridge GPIO header inside. I connected my kali + piano 2.1 I2S card. It gets detected and it works. The only change I...
The only issue is that when you connect an I2S card, the unit will not fit inside the original case. So if you have good DIY skills and access to CAD skills to make your own cabinet, sky is the limit.Thanks for the prompt response!
Got it, one more doubt, do we really need Allo card for the transport purpose? As RPI4 already has HDMI option, cant we directly use it as we will just use to pass digital signals to external DAC ?
There seems to be a difference of Rs 3k between Boss 2 Player 2Gb & 4 Gb version
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