I’d like to say that this project is seriously pure gold. Why?
Easy to use interface
Low component cost
Bit perfect sound transfer
I’ve got my raspberry pi connected to my NAS via WiFi playing 24bit/96khz music perfectly. The web UI by far feels like the most polished mpd interface and doesn’t require additional software installation, just a browser. Of course there are minor bugs (it’s in beta) but i could happily live with where it’s at now.
For comparison, windows PC with Jrivers vs CD player vs Volumio on pi -> all on the same DAC with the same music (FLAC & CD of same song)… could i tell any difference, nope. They all sound the same to me (my view is if have to think about it for a long time about any perceived difference, then there is no difference), which is what i expect given their function is transferring bit perfect 0’s and 1’s to a DAC.
Anyways, just wanted to say thanks for creating something so simple that does its job so well.
I have Intel NUC/JRiver/M2Tech Hiface 2/Dac and cubox-i2/Toslink/dac. I have a slight preference for the Volumio for SQ, and JRiver for ergonomics. JRiver is deifinitely ahead for ergonomics, I use it heavily for metadata editing and keeping the database as I want it. As for the preference for Volumio SQ, I could easily be imgining it. I think the quality of the dacs input processing (Toslink, Coax, Usb, whatever) will greatly influence this.
I just changed dacs, SQ differences, if they truly exist, are minimal.