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Hello,
I'm looking to apply the best setup on two Raspberry Pi working as Airplay receiver:
- HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro
- Integrated soundcard
Does anyone know if it's possible to change any parameters to get a better quality ?
Best regards
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06-08-2018, 01:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-08-2018, 01:43 AM by RafaPolit.)
You could upsample in the Pi, its fairly easy to experiment.
That said, the Apple signal is fixed at 44.1 / 16. Curiously enough, if you are sending the stream to an Apple TV, it will upsample it to 48.
I, for one, think that the default non-resampled setting sounds best. But then, I am a seeker of BitPerfect. Other's have found success upsampling in the Pi.
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Most dacs oversample internally so the idea is that if the algorithm or process by which that happens isn’t very good you can achieve better results doing it yourself with a known good resampler (like sox) and passing that stream to the dac where it might not manipulate it further.
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I prefer the sound via UPnP than Airplay.
Some guys said to me that the Squeezelite sound is even better (not tried yet).