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  1. Yes indeed, a great journey. I would never recommend speakers over relationships but just in case you had better get that garage equipped. I have 4 Klipsch in the garage just in case...LOL 

  2. Thank you derrickdj1,  

     

    John Chi-town set me on the right path.  Since I really am unfamiliar of how the fortés originally sounded, I think I am going to have them recapped first and determine where to go from there.  I hope I'm not wasting my time but feel I should know what changes I'm making...

     

    Sounds like you have are going on the right path. Glad to see another on the forum from the NW.

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  3. Followup....................

     

    I did order the HiFi Berry DAC and it arrived a few days ago. Since I had the Model B I had to do a bit of soldering to put in the audio outputs to the board.

     

    My plan was to use it in the music room instead of using a laptop headphones out to deliver music. The next task was getting the SD card imaged with the desired OS. I decided to use Volumio (https://volumio.org). Very pleased with the interface. I mapped to my music network share. Took about 10 minutes to load all the music into Volumio. Configured for the exact HiFi Berry board and bobs your uncle. Worked like a charm.

     

    This is my first DAC and know I know why many of you use them. Pretty sure this solution would not compete with many of the upper end DACs but I am very pleased with the sound. A/B Comparing the HIFI Berry DAC to the laptop output. It was so obvious! The sound quality was much better. Invited my son over and did some A/B with him and he was quite surprised as well.

     

    So, I would recommend the HiFi Berry for a low budget DAC for sure.

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  4. I am so getting one of these! I have several PIs and currently use a model 2 PI in my bedroom to deliver to all my movies and TV shows from my KODI shared library. Its currently running OpenELEC. So I have my old PI B+ just sitting here looking at me now I know what I am going to do with it. Be the perfect way to deliver content in my music room.

     

    For all you PI owners go search on your favorite search engine for things to do with a Raspberry PI. There are some interesting projects out there.

     

    OP thanks for throwing this out there!

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