10-19-2022, 04:36 AM
I've been running moOde 4.4 since 2018 and have been pretty happy with the quality of the audio I'm getting. My setup is a Pi-2B with a HifiBerry DAC+ Pro hat (floating and powered by a linear power supply I built), going into a passive preamp with a stepped attenuator (which is sitting at 0 db - full volume, as volume is controlled by hardware in moOde), going into an ATI 1502 amp and feeding a pair of NHT 3.3 speakers. I'm not an interconnect freak, so my RCAs were built by myself and are 1 foot from Pi to preamp and 2 feet to amp, and my speaker cables are just 12 gauge zip cords.
Recently I upgraded to 8.2.1 and am wondering if there are any better DACs available now. Back in 2018, the HFB DAC+ Pro was a very good compromise between quality and cost, but are there better DAC hats that would be around $100? Would they be considerably better than the HFB DAC I have now? Would upgrading for Pi3 and 64bit do anything to sound quality? I don't want to go to Pi4 because I don't want the fan, even if it's totally silent.
Thanks.
Recently I upgraded to 8.2.1 and am wondering if there are any better DACs available now. Back in 2018, the HFB DAC+ Pro was a very good compromise between quality and cost, but are there better DAC hats that would be around $100? Would they be considerably better than the HFB DAC I have now? Would upgrading for Pi3 and 64bit do anything to sound quality? I don't want to go to Pi4 because I don't want the fan, even if it's totally silent.
Thanks.
