(06-28-2020, 07:52 PM)Griff Wrote: It's interesting.... so today I listened to a few albums, Daft Punk, Radiohead.... LCD Soundsystem, Zeppelin, Goldffrapp, Beatles.... eyes closed... listening intently and ... for me... I found that with Sox turned on there was a lack of low end compared with off. I also found better stereo separation with it off..... Sox on seemed to deaden the sound a bit for me. Without was that bit livelier....
So I'm mostly listening to acoustic classical. More complex sound with direct sound and hall reverberation. As philrandal said that the soundstage is better defined. Instrument placement is better. I actually think the "livelier" sound you are describing is distortion. The lack of low end is something I have not experienced.
I don't know how you are powering the RPI/Boss, but for me using an Aukey USB C 20000mAh battery made world of difference, especially in the bass. Highly recommend a battery instead of a power supply. Connected it to the Boss with the jumper on, so it powers the RPI and the Boss. You can play it for over 12 hours. The sonic results are much better than a 5V 20A lab grade Acopian linear power supply that I was using. I also tried two batteries, one to the RPI and the other to the Boss with the jumper off. Never could get it to work. It's possible that the voltages of the two batteries were very different. The correct method is to power the Boss and then the RPI in this setup. On retries it eventually broke the SD card. Reflashing is easy, but I have a huge music library of over 1TB, so it takes a long time to rescan.
