(08-21-2019, 03:14 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: I've come to a similar conclusion.
The performance of the 3A+ running moOde is fine, whether I'm driving an I2S DAC HAT or a USB DAC. The 5GHz WiFi on the 3A+ works well pretty much everywhere in my 4-floor townhouse save one room where I'll soon place a WiFi bridge because the WiFi interfaces of my laptop and mobile devices don't work well there either. My music directory is on a NAS, which in my case hangs on the Ethernet backbone of my LAN in order better to service all its clients. The 3A+ does have only 1/2GB of RAM, which can an issue if trying to compile largish programs.
The one big attraction for me of the new 4B is its redesigned I/O subsystem including two USB3 ports. With its somewhat faster CPU and much larger RAM I can see me using one 4B as a "master" moOde player hosting the music library on a USB3-connected SSD, serving both itself and a couple of satellite moOde players in the house. The satellites will be 3A+s. My existing NAS can be dedicated to other uses (including backing up the music library).
Like the man said, "YMMV".
Regards,
Kent
I like your idea here. In fact, I went in a very similar direction:
But instead of using a moodeaudio-pi for this, I splitted the tasks.
1) Pi3B+ for audio with an Audiophonics DAC connected to a couple of Dynaudio Emit 10's.
2) all music on a separate, network connected, mini computer(I actually have the HC1, wich is the size of an SSD drive+aluminium heat sink
This way, the pi doesn't get overworked, and we can actually get streaming music an video everywhere in the house simultaniously.
Works very well.
