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Idea: Upgrading my DAC Hat
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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.
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Messages In This Thread
Upgrading my DAC Hat - by doobster - 10-19-2022, 04:36 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by HEGOM - 10-19-2022, 08:08 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by the_bertrum - 10-19-2022, 12:14 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by TheOldPresbyope - 10-19-2022, 12:42 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by DRONE7 - 10-20-2022, 06:10 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-21-2023, 08:21 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by DRONE7 - 01-22-2023, 06:25 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 04:03 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by Tim Curtis - 01-22-2023, 04:19 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-23-2023, 03:31 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by chano22000 - 01-22-2023, 11:05 AM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 04:25 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by Tim Curtis - 01-22-2023, 04:37 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 05:28 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 06:44 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 07:07 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 07:25 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 07:50 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 08:13 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 08:42 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-22-2023, 09:07 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by DRONE7 - 01-22-2023, 10:10 PM
RE: Upgrading my DAC Hat - by hifinet - 01-23-2023, 12:00 AM

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