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First impressions
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Hey all,
So I recently got myself into the RPI/DAC audio world. Got myself a RPI4/AlloBoss1.2 and it's feeding to an Allo Boss Volt+ D Amp which is feeding a pair of B&W 686 or B&W 705s. 

I was very interested to see how this semi-diy setup compared to my old setup of MacPro to Arcam Alpha 9 to speakers setup.

My main hi-res source of music is Tidal but also have Spotify and Apple Music... always prefer Tidal to date anyway. I figured that I needed to use something to send the Allo Boss DAC a decent file so I use Audirvana on my Mac to stream to RPI via UPnP. Seems to be doing its job OK and the sound on the system overall has been great. 

However.... I did find the sound lacking in some way, maybe a bit flat. I put it down to no tone controls on the Amp... even with the Arcam I would have added a little bass...

The RPI shipped with Volumio so I did attempt to enable the EQ plugin with no success. I went off down various rabbit holes trying to see what I could do to add some warmth to the overall sound - being mindful I didn't want to run audio through yet more processes either.... anyway.... this lead me to try Moode. 

I had known about it as an option but today I thought I'd give it a shot. So off I went a got another MicroSD card and installed it. I went through the setup and now have it working over Wifi and am playing tidal tracks to it from Audirvana via UPnp.

The sound is SUPERB!!! It's like a different system! 

No idea why this is as it's the same hardware but it sounds WAY better than Volumio to my ears anyway. SO good that I have no desire to add any tone or eq to it at all. Some day someone might explain why this is but I'm a happy camper for now.

I do have a question relating to Tidal. I was able to play Audirvana (Tidal)->Moode via UPnp fine. I clicked on the UPnP config and saw there's an input for my Tidal account details. Any idea what this actually does? I input my details but can't see any difference in options.

Tidal on iOS can only playback via Airplay (not ideal really) but it's all good.

Anyway... back to my point. Moode sounds awesome!

Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin


Grif
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Messages In This Thread
First impressions - by Griff - 06-27-2020, 05:52 PM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 06-27-2020, 06:22 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-27-2020, 06:30 PM
RE: First impressions - by philrandal - 06-27-2020, 08:42 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-28-2020, 07:37 PM
RE: First impressions - by Griff - 06-28-2020, 12:28 PM
RE: First impressions - by Griff - 06-28-2020, 01:51 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-28-2020, 07:32 PM
RE: First impressions - by Griff - 06-28-2020, 07:52 PM
RE: First impressions - by Skip Pack - 06-29-2020, 03:29 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-30-2020, 02:31 AM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 06-30-2020, 05:53 AM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-30-2020, 02:30 PM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 06-30-2020, 08:18 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-29-2020, 05:17 PM
RE: First impressions - by MrHifiTunes - 06-29-2020, 05:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 06-29-2020, 05:41 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 06-30-2020, 02:11 AM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 06-30-2020, 10:30 AM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-02-2020, 05:35 PM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 07-02-2020, 09:32 PM
RE: First impressions - by philrandal - 07-02-2020, 09:46 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-02-2020, 11:29 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-02-2020, 11:02 PM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 07-03-2020, 12:32 AM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-03-2020, 04:16 AM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 07-03-2020, 07:20 AM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 07-03-2020, 12:38 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-03-2020, 02:08 PM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 07-03-2020, 04:04 PM
RE: First impressions - by philrandal - 07-26-2020, 02:11 PM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 07-26-2020, 06:04 PM
RE: First impressions - by hifinet - 07-03-2020, 06:40 PM
RE: First impressions - by TheOldPresbyope - 07-26-2020, 02:25 PM
RE: First impressions - by philrandal - 07-27-2020, 11:39 AM
RE: First impressions - by jonners - 07-27-2020, 01:55 PM
RE: First impressions - by efung - 07-27-2020, 07:32 PM
RE: First impressions - by philrandal - 07-27-2020, 08:28 PM

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