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Chat => Tech Chat => Topic started by: Chunkers on October 10, 2017, 10:32:33 AM

Title: Anyone else interested in DIY HiFi stuff e.g. CMoy amps and RPi based DAC's?
Post by: Chunkers on October 10, 2017, 10:32:33 AM
Hey Dudes?

I recently developed an obsession interest in streaming audio devices as my Logitech Squeezebox is getting a bit old and I was looking for a replacement.  Its an interesting area of hobbying, as long as you steer clear of too much of the "Audiophile" guff.

I started out with max cheapness and turned my very old (and largely useless now) Raspberry Pi Model B into a streaming device with dedicated DAC using a Crappy £12 addon board from ebay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XBlack+HIFI+DAC+Audio+PCM5102A+Raspberry+Pi+B.TRS0&_nkw=Black+HIFI+DAC+Audio+PCM5102A+Raspberry+Pi+B&_sacat=0).

(http://www.zen101388.zen.co.uk/images/Black.jpg)

I then bought a Raspberry Pi 3 and a HifiBerry DAC (https://www.hifiberry.com/) plus to use in the kitchen, sounds nice.  They both run Volumio (https://volumio.org/), which is nice and doesn't require any backend / server software.  This setup sounds really nice through my Kitchen Hifi :

(http://www.zen101388.zen.co.uk/images/hifiberry.jpg)

And now, I am trying to improve my very bad soldering skills and am building a CMoy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMoy) headphone amp. My soldering is very bad, so I am probably going to have problems - but its all for the learning experience tbh :

(http://www.zen101388.zen.co.uk/images/board.jpg)(http://www.zen101388.zen.co.uk/images/Cmoy.jpg)

I wince at my own soldering every time I look at that photo  :-[

An RPi Hifiberry DAC can be bought super cheap second hand on ebay now and they make pretty cool streamers with very decent sound quality for much cheapness.

o7

Chunks