04-19-2020, 04:30 AM
Hi all. A bit of background first...I have been using an old Powermac G5 with a whopping 1gb ram and Tiger OS, purely to stream Soma FM radio through a usb to spdif converter (Halide Bridge) into my hifi dac/audio system (a Meridian 518 digital processor box and then the digital is sent from there via digital coax to my 20 year old dac).
I decided to buy a cheap Intel Celeron NUC with 4gb ram and 60gb SSD, when I found that the Powermac was unable to play either Tidal or Spotify (neither supported by Tiger OS)
However, when I hooked the Intel NUC up, I found that the audio quality sounds a bit flat compared to the sharper, cleaner and ultimately superior sound quality I get from the Powermac.
It has been suggested that a Raspberry Pi4 would be superior to the NUC, so was ready to go down that path but I have been told that the Moode software may not work with my older dac from the late 90's (a british built Deltec Precision Audio PDM2)
I am a complete novice when it comes to computer audio and the jargon, etc. so sorry for my lack of understanding - but can anyone answer if a Raspberry Pi4 with Moode software on it will simply connect to my old dac using the USB - spdif converter path as described above?
Or does the Moode software only recognise specific (mainly more modern) dacs that are already established within it's internal settings? ie. The dac to be used must be selected from within Moode software, and if it is not listed then my old dac wont work?
I decided to buy a cheap Intel Celeron NUC with 4gb ram and 60gb SSD, when I found that the Powermac was unable to play either Tidal or Spotify (neither supported by Tiger OS)
However, when I hooked the Intel NUC up, I found that the audio quality sounds a bit flat compared to the sharper, cleaner and ultimately superior sound quality I get from the Powermac.
It has been suggested that a Raspberry Pi4 would be superior to the NUC, so was ready to go down that path but I have been told that the Moode software may not work with my older dac from the late 90's (a british built Deltec Precision Audio PDM2)
I am a complete novice when it comes to computer audio and the jargon, etc. so sorry for my lack of understanding - but can anyone answer if a Raspberry Pi4 with Moode software on it will simply connect to my old dac using the USB - spdif converter path as described above?
Or does the Moode software only recognise specific (mainly more modern) dacs that are already established within it's internal settings? ie. The dac to be used must be selected from within Moode software, and if it is not listed then my old dac wont work?
