07-17-2018, 02:43 PM
(07-17-2018, 08:09 AM)swizzle Wrote: This probably isn’t the place but while I do think there is a difference between moode 3.x and 4.x, the difference seems to me to be that stretch + mpd, etc. are now more resolving. Whether you like that or not will depend on your audio chain and personal preferences. One person’s warm, lush and natural is another’s veiled and rolled off (and vice versa), and I say that as someone who loves HD650s, silk dome tweeters, and r2r dacs.
It’s been a while since I’ve heard volumio but when I initially got into the Pi scene and tried the various distros I chose moode strictly for the sound quality and used a front end app for a while until I decided to volunteer to help Tim with the interface a bit. I have checked out picoreplayer with real-time kernel relatively recently as I hadn’t before and had been wanting to check it out as it’s popular on another forum I’m on and thought the sound (which doesn’t use mpd or stretch) was virtually indistinguishable to moode. I think that’s a good thing.
My experience with players is similar in that I've not been been able to distinguish any diffs in SQ even on my nice Yamaha Studio rig but if some code comes along that can be proven to improve SQ I'll be happy to incorporate it into moOde.
