I am a beginner here. Is there an appropriate place that I can ask some simple questions about raspyfi? I don't see an FAQ anywhere.

Thank you much!

I had the Raspyfi_RC2 which had some issues with 96Khz Flacs, I downloaded the Beta and everything works like charm.
No jittering at all, even listening to 96khz Flacs (from a Nas) while rescaning the music library. I'm Impressed.

I decided to go into a modest overclocking (800Mhz), I'll try later to go back to the standard 700mhz and see what happends.

I buyed some transformers (2 x 24+24 120VA for Dual Mono) and tested a LM3886 (with an old speaker) I will made a gainclone amp and see how that sound. Ideally my PSU (in is own separated enclosure) will give enough juice for my gainclone or any other DIY AMP that I would like to make.

I will get some of those Valve pre-amps to see if I notice the difference.

Anyway the first thing that I need is one of those Protection Speaker Circuits.

Again, any recomendation ?

thanks, Bye, Diego.

Today Mr. diyinhk contacted me and told me that they have a small qty of the item I need, so I
buyed it, directly, I hope the component be send, being an operation outside of ebay is not that good,
but if other members have buyed and it had more than 1100 transactions I think everything it's gona be allright.

I keep the "research" on the amplifier part, an idea could be one ICE Power 50ASX2 now and a second in some future seem a nice combo
(to my pockets, to a sound test, and finally power). But as usual, in this research I keep crashing with Tripaths and
Mauro Penasa's MyRef RevC (LM3886 based but not in a GC config), thing is, I already have about 6 x LM3886
and a handfull of ultra fast MUR860 diodes. I will keep thinking, anyway now I'm waiting for my receiber and DAC

You recently introduced a new component (oh, no, not more, please, ) you mention the pre-amp.

In my current setup (the AMP6 from 41hz with a TA2020) uses an attenuator and a relay selector (for input channels), I designed and fabricated all these,
with a home build PCB, I used (and programmed) a PIC 16F628 (IIRC), I used to read Elliot Sound Products a lot, so I learned some good practices, there is no audible sound at MAX power comming out of my speakers with the inputs open. The PIC commands a pair of MCP41010 (i2c digital pot ICs) this are not audio specific but works ok (some minor noise on vol.change, I later discover a similar part from BurrBrown that have a Zero Crossing detection to solve this problem).
Finnaly, I programmed the PIC to learn RC5 remote control commands (from a Phillips TV we had) I'm lazy, so the physical pot was a choice for a brief period of time. And added a very small EI trafo, that way, the PIC is always ON, but the AMP swiched (mute command on TA2020) so, probably it only consumes less than 5 watts in standby mode. (I measued it, to confirm the low power use, but I can recall now what was the correct power usage)

But, you talked about a good preamp, I'm on DIY, I like it a lot, BUT, I think that my country policies on imports (customs) isn't ready for valves, neither do I (I don't know anything about it). I have some 5532 and OPA2134 lying aroud, I made a very nice sounding OPA2134 CMOY. So there are some good recomendations on a pre-amp for my receiver/dac ? I know that until I don't have the AMP is probably futile to recommend something, but just to keep on the research. Elliot Sound Products have some proyects, but again, I don't know what is the most valuable characteristic to look for.

Then again, thanks, Diego.

They cost less than the IPs...

Thanks for your response. I appreciate it, it's not so common to very knowledgable people being nice with the newbies, thanks.

I send an email to the ebay seller (diyinhk) of the XMOS USB to I2S to ask if I can buy one of those,
until now I didn't get an answer and I now see a new item from him, but I pressume that is not
exactly what I'm looking for:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/XMOS-1.....d=ViewItem

because as I understand this is an XMOS USB 2 SPDIF, but it didn't have (at least I can't see it) the I2S port,
so I can't pair with the Sabre 9023 that I already bought (yesterday
worst of things is that the cost is USD 30 more, and I didn't need the case and it didn't have the i2s. shoot.
I think that I will wait then.
(This is an option ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/LJM-Au.....19dde66b0c or there are better options ? )

I have to think a little more about the AMP section, those 125ASX2 looks great (for the specs I mean) but
my pockets are not so full at this moment.

And yes my loudspeakers are 8 Ohms, could be Bi-Amped or Bi-Wired and are pretty efficient (97db/W/m).

Again, thanks.

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Until now, I listen music with my actual audio chain:
NAS -> Western Digital TV Live -> (HDMI TV - Analog Out) -> DIY 41hz Amp6 (old one with Tripath 2020) - Klipsch RF62 II.

My chain seems unbalanced, I'm somewhat comfortable with my AMP6, it's only 25watt/channel (less actually 'cause speakers are 8Ohms) , so I was thinking to upgrade to the 41hz AMP9 based on TAA4100A, this kit have 4 outputs, max 80Watts each (~50w/channel@<0.03THD+N), and I could use in biamping mode. (I don't know if vertical or horizontal).

Doing some research on what amp I should buy and googling for amps, preamps and raspberry pi that I crashed with this wonderful project, the Raspyfi.

So, I'm here reading about digital audio chains (streams ?), and things like 24bits/192kHz. I2S, and the like, so I dig it.

For what I have read til now, for a rational budget and big increase in quality, seems like the Xmos2 + Sabre 9023 is the winner choice, but
the guy that sells the XMOS-2 is out of stock. The HiFimeDIYSabre USB DAC 2 is there, is cheaper and is all the hardware that I need in one box (if I get things right), but is a lower choice in sound quality.

So, what should I do ? wait for the XMOS ? or buy the HiFimeDIY Sabre USB DAC2 ?
I'm probably (BIG IF) putting all in one cabinet ( Raspberry Pi, DAC, small toroid and BIG toroids, the amp and probably an Arduino (only the ATMega328) for IR input channel control, ADC to raspi inteface, leds and small lcd display). So I'm looking for a long term decision, Putting it all together depends if there is too much noise, I would probably build separate cabinets.

Finally, there are better options (power/quality/economy/ease of DIY) that the AMP9 ?

Sorry for my long post, and my bad english. Thanks in advance, Diten