wetowne Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Well I replaced my Musical Paradise MP-D1 tube dac with a Schiit Modius and my Chromecast Audio with a Hifiberry Digi+ Pro hat on an Pi 4. A big improvement on both counts. Less noise,more dynamics,clarity and convenience. The old dac was warm sounding to a fault,the Modius still has the warm characteristics that I like in a dac without blurring the musical details and the background is dead quiet. Running Volumio on the Pi is also a lot more convenient than having two separate apps for Tidal and local files as with the Chromecast. It all cost less than the old MP-D1 did.Winners all around and my Fortes are happier for it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWL Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Cool. I put blue painter's tape on all my Schiit stuff. A nice blue glow instead of that bright white light.Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetowne Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 1 minute ago, SWL said: Cool. I put blue painter's tape on all my Schiit stuff. A nice blue glow instead of that bright white light. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk I've used colored plastic bags and scotch tape on the inside of the faceplate with great success too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWL Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Yeah.....anything to tame that bright light. I dig my Modius.Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWL Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Actually, my Modius isn't that bad but my Modi 3 and both my Loki's you could see that white light a mile away.Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeloManiac Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 10 hours ago, wetowne said: Well I replaced my Musical Paradise MP-D1 tube dac with a Schiit Modius and my Chromecast Audio with a Hifiberry Digi+ Pro hat on an Pi 4. A big improvement on both counts. Less noise,more dynamics,clarity and convenience. The old dac was warm sounding to a fault,the Modius still has the warm characteristics that I like in a dac without blurring the musical details and the background is dead quiet. Running Volumio on the Pi is also a lot more convenient than having two separate apps for Tidal and local files as with the Chromecast. It all cost less than the old MP-D1 did.Winners all around and my Fortes are happier for it. Do you use the standard RPI power plug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetowne Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 I’m using a 10 dollar CanaKit wall-wart. It seems more than adequate with no noise at all. No plans to upgrade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Welcome to the pi club! I'm using the same hifiberry HAT going straight into my Yamaha processor. Running RopieeeXL for playback via roon and spotify. On 8/29/2020 at 2:28 AM, ILI said: Do you use the standard RPI power plug? I use a 12v linear power supply that my HAM father in law gave me from his parts bin. Bought a cheap little 5v convertor pre-terminated with a usb connection. I've compared to a handful of other usb wall bricks and it just continues to sound the best, even if it's ugly. I figure if it's good enough for radio work, it's good enough for audio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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