05-10-2023, 08:43 AM
Hi all...
I believe I had brought this up before, the situation that my Moode player that I use for my TV/2ch Stereo system seems to only be capable of 8 or 16 bit output. At least that's what is being reported by Moode. What I am doing, is hooking up the HDMI output of the Pi to an input of my Onkyo AV receiver. This way, I get the DAC in the Onkyo doing the audio, and have the Moode display screen available on the TV screen as a happy little side effect.
I haven't been sure if it's Moode, the RPi infrastructure, or the Onkyo, though the Onkyo DAC is supposed to be 32b/384K or so. Even searching around in the RPi official forums found me very little on the subject of HDMI audio out, and what should be normal or not. I expected not to see a limit thru this path.
I just was talking about this on AudioScienceReview, while talking about HDMI extractors... and someone chimed in about measuring 16 bit only output when using Moode. They said that there was a different ALSA driver out there, that would provide 24 bit output, and described how to install it, on a regular RPi system at least. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum...st-1586482
So, thought I'd pass this along, for consideration and possible update someday in a future Moode release.
The HDMI output is perhaps not used as much, but is handier than you might think, doing things like jacking your Moode box into an AV amp for a no extra parts system, or using one of the $15-20 HDMI to SPDIF/TOSLINK extractor boxes to send some high quality digital data to a DAC or other gear that doesn't have a USB audio in.
I believe I had brought this up before, the situation that my Moode player that I use for my TV/2ch Stereo system seems to only be capable of 8 or 16 bit output. At least that's what is being reported by Moode. What I am doing, is hooking up the HDMI output of the Pi to an input of my Onkyo AV receiver. This way, I get the DAC in the Onkyo doing the audio, and have the Moode display screen available on the TV screen as a happy little side effect.
I haven't been sure if it's Moode, the RPi infrastructure, or the Onkyo, though the Onkyo DAC is supposed to be 32b/384K or so. Even searching around in the RPi official forums found me very little on the subject of HDMI audio out, and what should be normal or not. I expected not to see a limit thru this path.
I just was talking about this on AudioScienceReview, while talking about HDMI extractors... and someone chimed in about measuring 16 bit only output when using Moode. They said that there was a different ALSA driver out there, that would provide 24 bit output, and described how to install it, on a regular RPi system at least. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum...st-1586482
So, thought I'd pass this along, for consideration and possible update someday in a future Moode release.
The HDMI output is perhaps not used as much, but is handier than you might think, doing things like jacking your Moode box into an AV amp for a no extra parts system, or using one of the $15-20 HDMI to SPDIF/TOSLINK extractor boxes to send some high quality digital data to a DAC or other gear that doesn't have a USB audio in.
