Toslink I/O on Beaglebone Black?

Audio Gear DACs
1

I’m very interested in adding a Volumio player to my stereo stack. I would
like to integrate a Tascam US-366 as a player and LP digitizer. Is there any
possibility of a Beaglebone Black toslink interface to the Tascam US-366 or
other toslink DACs?

2

Since you are at the point of buying an interface, my advise would be: buy a Highface.
Highface provides a connection from USB to spdiff, where audio and digital signals are separated by transformers.
It provides you with a 192 kHz, 24 bit interface.

An optical interface is limited up to 96 kHz and thus not playing all high resolution music.

3

Hi,

And does someone knows if HiFace works well with Volumio on Beaglebone, or CUBOX or RPI, etc… ?

Thanks

4

HiFace 2 worsk out of the box with Volumio on every platform… But if you need to read your music via USB on BBB, you need a USB hub since BBB has just only one USB port!

If you need however optical spdif, you can buy an USB to toslink converter. Or get a Cubox wich features optical audio out…
If you have more questions just ask!

5

Keep in mind that resolution above 44100 Hz are useless (people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html)

192 / 24 is marketing only (or hearing illusion ^^)…