07-03-2023, 08:17 PM
I have been listening to my music through moOde for the second year in a row, approximately for 3 to 6 hours a day. Every day.
Been using 2 different DACs:
1. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (actually a musician's audio interface, but I just used it as a DAC)
2. Eversolo Z8 DAC
Despite the differences between the two (which became evident, of course, only once I had the possibility to hear the second one...) which are irrelevant to describe here, I have experienced no sound degradation during such time.
Now, some ears are made better than others, but I know very well almost all of my music library, since the time I used to listen to it with a SONY CD player, a class A amp (made in the USA, but cannot remember the brand...) and two danish hi-end 2-way speakers.
Today all that is gone (ehm... I switched Country, and my brother prowled everything I couldn't easily bring over... blame it on me), as I now have a RPi4 + the above DAC + active studio monitors. Well, the quality is not only improved (as expected) but again, has never degraded to day, despite several moOde updates.
One thing I must admit:
both my DACs do not need any driver, they just implement the USB audio 2.0 protocol which is native in the Linux kernel... Now, I know this restricts moOde from being able to fully control them, but maybe also keeps anything (harmful to SQ?) from being pulled into the audio chain...
Just my 2c on the matter
Been using 2 different DACs:
1. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (actually a musician's audio interface, but I just used it as a DAC)
2. Eversolo Z8 DAC
Despite the differences between the two (which became evident, of course, only once I had the possibility to hear the second one...) which are irrelevant to describe here, I have experienced no sound degradation during such time.
Now, some ears are made better than others, but I know very well almost all of my music library, since the time I used to listen to it with a SONY CD player, a class A amp (made in the USA, but cannot remember the brand...) and two danish hi-end 2-way speakers.
Today all that is gone (ehm... I switched Country, and my brother prowled everything I couldn't easily bring over... blame it on me), as I now have a RPi4 + the above DAC + active studio monitors. Well, the quality is not only improved (as expected) but again, has never degraded to day, despite several moOde updates.
One thing I must admit:
both my DACs do not need any driver, they just implement the USB audio 2.0 protocol which is native in the Linux kernel... Now, I know this restricts moOde from being able to fully control them, but maybe also keeps anything (harmful to SQ?) from being pulled into the audio chain...
Just my 2c on the matter
