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    From D.M. Procida@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jul 27 21:56:07 2021
    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the
    Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the
    trick.

    What can you recommend?

    Daniele
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to D.M. Procida on Wed Jul 28 14:36:51 2021
    On 27/07/2021 20:56, D.M. Procida wrote:
    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the
    Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the
    trick.

    What can you recommend?

    Daniele

    Dunno. I use a Rack mount 200 watt a channel studio amp. In fact two, on different setups. Plus the HifiBerry DAC for the PI zero

    The DAC is not the problem - decent amps and speakers at a sane price,
    are.

    Possibly you could use a halfway decent PC speaker setup

    If you want a full integrated solution the hifiberry power amp/DAC plus
    a PSU to drive it is not bad but its costly.

    £75 to get an amp with no hardware tone controls. Plus the Pi



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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to All on Wed Jul 28 16:09:56 2021
    Op 27-07-2021 om 21:56 schreef D.M. Procida:
    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the
    Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the
    trick.

    What can you recommend?

    Last year Raspberry Pi bought IQaudIO. No new products yet but they
    still sell some of the old stuff. I don't have this one which seems to
    be what you're looking for: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/iqaudio-digiamp-plus/ but I do have
    two PiDAC Zeros (no longer in the product line up) which have worked
    flawlessly for years.

    Look at the "product brief" pdf with a table that shows which product
    supports what, most importantly: the DigiAmp+ only has speaker outputs,
    no line out, no headphones.
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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Wed Jul 28 17:08:34 2021
    A. Dumas wrote on 28-07-2021 at 16:09:
    I do have
    two PiDAC Zeros (no longer in the product line up) which have worked flawlessly for years.

    Like this https://imgur.com/Wy9Qj0B
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  • From druck@3:770/3 to D.M. Procida on Wed Jul 28 19:28:30 2021
    On 27/07/2021 20:56, D.M. Procida wrote:
    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the
    Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the
    trick.

    What can you recommend?

    I went with a Prozor 5 way 4K HDMI switch with audio extraction, so
    which ever device is using the monitor can output sound to external
    speakers. It has both phono and optical outputs, so you've got a few
    options for amps and speakers.

    I'm using the optical output to drive my old 5.1 Blu-ray home cinema
    system with the bottom half of the tallboy speakers removed so they sit
    on the desk and the bookshelf behind me. The centre speaker is on top of
    the stand behind the monitor, the sub woofer is hidden behind the desk
    drawers, and the main unit fits nicely in the gap between the drawers
    and the bottom of the desk.

    It's all very discrete, but by god does it deliver some sound in a small
    home office! I actually prefer it for all round encompassing noise to my
    new Atmos capable 9.4.1 sound bar, rears and sub in the living room,
    which may be more aurally accurate, but is too subtle for my failing
    hearing.

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  • From D.M. Procida@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Thu Jul 29 00:51:05 2021
    A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:

    Op 27-07-2021 om 21:56 schreef D.M. Procida:
    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the trick.

    What can you recommend?

    Last year Raspberry Pi bought IQaudIO. No new products yet but they
    still sell some of the old stuff. I don't have this one which seems to
    be what you're looking for: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/iqaudio-digiamp-plus/

    That's indeed one of the options, but I'd be interested to have some
    feedback based on hands-on experience of it (or the alternatives, such
    as the equivalent HifiBerry device).

    I'm fairly sure that any of the available DAC + amp boards will be fine, including most of the numerous Chinese models, that are probably made by perfectly competent designers and manufacturers but don't offer the
    reassurance of a recognised brand name.

    There's even a high-end (or at least, expensive) made-in-NL Dutch
    product - <https://dionaudio.nl/loco-dac-amp/>.

    Daniele
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  • From D.M. Procida@3:770/3 to D.M. Procida on Fri Aug 6 23:51:55 2021
    D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

    I've had excellent experiences with several Allo DACs, and also the
    Pimoroni pHAT DAC.

    I now need a very small set-up to drive a pair of small bookshelf
    speakers. It doesn't need to serve any thing bigger than a small bedroom/office, so I hope that a DAC/amplifier combination will do the
    trick.

    What can you recommend?

    I bought an IQ Audio DigiAmp+, and a Raspberry Pi 3A to go with it. I
    was lucky in a second-hand shop and found a pair of Sony CEX1 bookshelf speakers for about ¤6.

    The combination needs a 12-24V PSU to drive it.

    I'm amazed how loud it can get - louder than the speakers want to be
    driven, and far louder than I need it to be. Switching amplifiers and
    PSUs really are in a world of their own.

    The speakers are really not bad - significantly better than most
    bookshelf speakers of that size (for ¤6, extremely good). They're still
    the weakest link in the chain though.

    It's a bit harder to judge the quality of the DAC/amplifier, as I don't
    have anything similar to compare it with easily. For less than ¤30, I'm perfectly happy with what it has to offer.

    Daniele
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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to D.M. Procida on Sat Aug 7 10:13:51 2021
    D.M. Procida wrote on 06-08-2021 at 23:51:
    I bought an IQ Audio DigiAmp+, and a Raspberry Pi 3A to go with it. I
    was lucky in a second-hand shop and found a pair of Sony CEX1 bookshelf speakers for about €6.

    The combination needs a 12-24V PSU to drive it.

    I'm amazed how loud it can get - louder than the speakers want to be
    driven, and far louder than I need it to be. Switching amplifiers and
    PSUs really are in a world of their own.

    The speakers are really not bad - significantly better than most
    bookshelf speakers of that size (for €6, extremely good). They're still
    the weakest link in the chain though.

    It's a bit harder to judge the quality of the DAC/amplifier, as I don't
    have anything similar to compare it with easily. For less than €30, I'm perfectly happy with what it has to offer.

    Nice. Thanks for the update.
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  • From Folderol@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Sat Aug 7 12:44:04 2021
    On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 10:13:51 +0200
    "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:

    D.M. Procida wrote on 06-08-2021 at 23:51:
    I bought an IQ Audio DigiAmp+, and a Raspberry Pi 3A to go with it. I
    was lucky in a second-hand shop and found a pair of Sony CEX1 bookshelf
    speakers for about €6.

    The combination needs a 12-24V PSU to drive it.

    I'm amazed how loud it can get - louder than the speakers want to be
    driven, and far louder than I need it to be. Switching amplifiers and
    PSUs really are in a world of their own.

    The speakers are really not bad - significantly better than most
    bookshelf speakers of that size (for €6, extremely good). They're still
    the weakest link in the chain though.

    It's a bit harder to judge the quality of the DAC/amplifier, as I don't
    have anything similar to compare it with easily. For less than €30, I'm
    perfectly happy with what it has to offer.

    Nice. Thanks for the update.

    Looking at the spec and the price, it seems to be just about the best on the market.

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  • From D.M. Procida@3:770/3 to D.M. Procida on Sat Aug 7 13:39:09 2021
    D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

    I bought an IQ Audio DigiAmp+, and a Raspberry Pi 3A to go with it. I
    was lucky in a second-hand shop and found a pair of Sony CEX1 bookshelf speakers for about ¤6.

    I shoud add, I use Volumio as a music player. It's one of many MPD-based options. It's a pretty reasonable one-stop system for turning a
    Raspberry Pi into a dedicated music player.

    There are lots of things about the user interface that I don't like, but
    it also seems to be the most complete member of the RaspyFi-derived
    projects (which also include Rune and Moode) and they all share the same annoyances.

    Daniele
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  • From LAB@3:770/3 to All on Wed Aug 11 10:18:11 2021
    A HDMI to audio converter from Amazon?


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  • From LAB@3:770/3 to All on Wed Aug 11 10:24:45 2021
    https://www.amazon.it/dp/B01LGIX5HY/

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  • From LAB@3:770/3 to All on Wed Aug 11 10:22:36 2021
    https://www.amazon.it/dp/B07KRWYN4R/
    https://www.amazon.it/dp/B07JKWR555/
    https://www.amazon.it/dp/B07C92XMMF/

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  • From druck@3:770/3 to LAB on Wed Aug 11 15:59:13 2021
    On 11/08/2021 09:18, LAB wrote:
    A HDMI to audio converter from Amazon?

    If you also want to be able to use the monitor with multiple HDMI
    sources, try https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B088FMZD8W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
    There are slo slightly cheaper versions if you don't need 4K.

    ---druck
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