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[Raitsa]

Hi guys.
Sold the old house in the included pic and have now started to equip the hifi room in the new house we built and just moved into.

Just downloaded Moode and will give it a go later today.

Old and sold:
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New humble beginnings:
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[alexbramford]

G'Day,

I have been running  Moode Audio for at least a year, currently running Moode Audio 7.3 on a Raspberry 3B+ with the following ol'skool / nu-skool audio setup:

• Moode Audio 7.3
  
• Raspberry-Pi-Model-Bplus micro-computer with Moode Audio music player
  
• HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro digital-to-analog converter for the Raspberry Pi
  

• VTA ST-120 vacuum tube amplifier from Bob Latino - available in kit from http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm#ST120
  
•     Electro Harmonix12AU7 driver tubes
  
•     RCA 12AU7 clear-top V1 driver tube
  
•     Sovtek 6550 power tubes 
  
• Cerwin Vega SL-15 speakers
  

• Rhythmbox Player
  
• Pulseaudio
  
• Shairport - for Airplay 2.0 
  
• Pulseeffects Equalizer
  
• Fedora 32 Linux
  

• House Music, Classical, Drone, Experimental
  

• RaspberryPi 3B+
  
• HifiBerry Dac Pro +
  

• VTA ST-120 vacuum tube amplifier
  
•     Electro Harmonix12AU7 driver tubes
  
•     RCA 12AU7 clear-top V1 driver tube
  
•     Sovtek 6550 power tubes
  

• Circuit Specialists Variac (118 volts A/C)
  

• Cerwin Vega SL-15 speaker - right channel: Stegosaurus Rex
  

• Rhythmbox  3.4.4 Music Player
  

• PulseEffects  4.7.1 - Audio effects for PulseAudio applications
  

• MoodeAudio 7.3.0 with Shairport and ngnix running as system-d processes on RaspberryPI 3B+
  

• Gabriels - "Love and Hate In a Different Time" - on high rotation
  

• Party Animal
  

[Sehnsucht]

Here's my portable system:

It's a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a 200gb SD card full of FLACs, an Apple USB -> 3.5mm dongle (which measures well: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum...ters.5541/ ; despite costing £9 and being the size of a cigarette there's a quality DAC in there!  https://www.cabledo.com/apple-usb-c-digi...-teardown/ ), plus some adaptors so I can power it via USB C and plug in my 1/4" Sennheiser HD 595 headphones (I'd have included them in the photo only they're currently disassembled so I can paint them).   Despite only owning the gimped EU Apple dongle it's just about loud enough for these headphones.   I control this via M.A.L.P., a great, free Android MPD client.  The lego might look a bit old and tatty; it should, as I played with it (most of it; I bought some new pieces recently) as a child in the 70's!

My main music system is the same software, but on a Pi 4 with an external HD and a "proper" DAC and amp.  To make moOde easier to control I added an infra-red receiver and used some of the unused buttons on the DAC remote, which I blogged about here: https://poldieblog.blogspot.com/2020/12/...-pi-i.html I switched to moOde from just a bare Raspbian install as it was the easiest way of accessing a parametric EQ to tweak my headphones:

https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/...er/results

[Supersurfer]

Hi,

This is my current main system. It is constantly in development. 

This week I installed newly built tweeters on top of my diy open baffle loudspeakers (need to make a nice housing for it). The units are based on the excellent field coil units of EMS from France. We modify the units with wooden spiders, leather surround and add windings to the coil to increase the electro magnetic field. The advantage of this modification is lower distortion due to the fact that the cone can only move in the axial direction as it is restricted laterally by the design of the spider. The field coil is also a better solution than a permanent magnet because it holds a constant magnetic field under load and the possibility to create a much bigger magnetic field.

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The amplifiers are also self build with Tamura transformers and all directly heated triodes from EML and Psvane.

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The source consists of a Moode based streamer built with an Allo USBridge signature, Ian Canada Fifopi, reclockpi and extreme low phase noise Clocks. PS from a battery supply with ultracapacitors.
I use several dacs, one of my best ones is the DDDAC you see in the picture but I am also building DACs with the famous Philips TDA1541A S1 DAC chips.

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[TheOldPresbyope]

@Supersurfer

Fantastic!

Regards,
Kent

[ivbelch]

My humble system:

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Primare 928 series monoblocks, DIY tube pre-amp, Audio Gd R1 R2R dac, modded Blaupunkt CP 2850 cd player, Raspberry Pi 4 2GB, Moode Audio 7.4.0...DIY cables and filtered power distributor...aha, and KEF Reference 104/2 speakers...

[brotakul]

Just finished my DIY moOde-based RPi streamer (pic attached).

My very modest system:
- Wharfedale Diamond 230 speakers
- NAD C325BEE
- Topping D10S
- the DIY thingy

The streamer still needs some love: shorten cables inside, change some screws, looking forward to add a display on the front, maybe even a volume knob - but still documenting on how that can be done.. Until then, I use the very old android tablet to display what's been played.
Pretty happy with the system for now 

[seipersei]

After countless hours spent reading and looking at all your posts, I have (kinda) finished my moOde player:



It’s a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ with IQaudio DAC Pro, a 12v LED power indicator and momentary switch, balanced XLR out (which is an optional feature of the IQaudio DAC Pro). 
It now sits proudly atop an SMSL AO200, which is next to a Pro-Ject Elemental (acrylic platter, Ortofon OM10) and a pair of barely bearable Voll B44 (also known as MB42X) that I’ll be stuck with for another few months. 





Future upgrades to the player will be a better case (possibly without butchering it with a drill) and a volume knob for using it with headphones.

[brotakul]

Finally upgraded my piStreamer, essentially changing the case, but also adding a volume knob and shutdown/reboot button (which was not wired in this pic, but forgot to make another one, so...)

[StivVid]

This is my attempt at a classic record console.  I built the cabinet to house mini hifi components.  Right now it has a Topping DX3 Pro DAC, a Topping PA3 amplifier, an Audio Technica AT-LP120X turntable, an ART DJPreII phono preamp, and of course, a Raspberry Pi 4 running Moode being controlled by a Samsung Tab.  The built-in speakers are based on a design by Paul Carmody, a well-known speaker designer in the DIY community.

I expect it will be an ever-evolving work in progress, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!