First let me say that you have done a wonderful job with your HIFIBerry boards, it's great to see such a complete solution. Not just the hardware or just software.
For me it does unfortunately lack a couple of items at the moment. For my situation I'd like to use this as an audio distribution system, so PC optical audio in one unit and audio output on several other units.
At the moment you seem to almost have this, you have the output and the audio over Ethernet your just missing the optical input.
For that reason i'm looking at the following product http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-accessories/wolfson_pi
one board has stereo audio input, headphone output, stereo D-class amplifier (with external power), S/PDIF in/out and two MEMS microphone!
I'd love it if you could get to a similar level with your boards. Also on my wish list would be power over Ethernet which would then save me having a separate power supply for the Raspberry.
At the moment i'm looking at getting the audio board I mentioned above and seeing if I can get your network protocol to work with it.
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HiFiBerry team Hi,
Thank you for your feedback. With our products we are focussing on the best sound quality. We believe that focussing on audio output allows us to get the best audio quality for the money. There is always a tradeoff between maximum functionality and quality. Adding more functionality would not allow us to get the same audio quality. While our DAC and Digi boards might not be the right solution for everybody, we think it is the best for people looking for high quality audio.
Best regards
Daniel
BTW: Our HiFiBerry Digi board could in general also be used as an SPDIF input. However, this would need adding an external input connector and adding the functionality to the driver. -
misterbenn Thanks for the quick reply Daniel,
I understand, and please don't misunderstand me your project is a very good solution.
Out of interest what chips do you use, have you looked at the Wolfson range? They seem to do a very large range of ICs for portable electronics.
Just FYI this is the type of thing I'm aiming for http://axiaaudio.com/xnodes/ this is for pro use where as I'm looking more for the home so several rooms can use one, selectable, audio source. Just thought you might like to know what your potential customers are looking for.
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