The Gold Standard...imo

[mkysimes]

Yes sir !!! I totally agree with you, those same tests I have done and I have reached the same conclusion, it is true that Volumio sounds very good, but ... Snakeoil is another story, the music woke up, with a sweet and valve sound that we are looking for All crazy quality music. He had been looking for that quality at the source for many years without the need to have a very expensive plate and vinyl.
The bases are firm, now it's up to everyone to keep this going ...
I have a question ... does Snakeoil sound the same on a Raspberry or on a PC?
I have on a motherboard with everything removed and the bios canceled almost everything except the indispensable.
Volume sounded much better to me on a 1st generation Apple TV than on a laptop.
What would be the best platform?
Greetings to all

Take a quick look at the manual and I think somewhere in there Agent_Kith explains that it was designed for his atom based motherboard (can't remember the specific model) originally, anyway. I could be wrong about this but I think most of the folks here use high quality usb dacs to output the sound from the PC so if you have a PC laying around it doesn't hurt to try if you have a decent way to send the signal to your system. It was only until someone made a request to port the software to a pi that it became available and man am I grateful for that! I tried to get it going on an older AMD based PC I had laying around but couldn't get the network adapter to work despite trying a couple of kernels. But I was only going to use it a pure LMS server to feed the Pi so it wasn't essential anyway.

I'm sure others can chime in or you can rummage through the testimonials and other sections to get some ideas on what people use. I know for me the pi and allo digione combo sounds fantastic but those with ultra high quality dacs are probably in a different league. I was looking for bang for the buck but if you got the money there's certainly better out there in the hardware department!

Ha, I edited this after seeing a couple of your posts! Seems you have plenty of gear to play with! I guess I jumped the gun a bit..lol. I do know there are a couple heavy hitters on here that are playing around with the new Pi 4. I'm not sure if they will be using HATs or just checking usb performance but hopefully we'll get some a/b comparisons between the Pi and an optimized PC setup. Judging by the gear in this setup I'm pretty sure the Pi doesn't stand a chance

https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/Threa...uphase-ATC