I think anyone building one of these would choose this option if it existed, as long as sound quality didnt suffer. It would truly be a Sonos Connect killer.
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HiFiBerry team Hi Jayson,
combining both will increase the costs (and therefore also the price) quite a lot. Would you pay, let's say 60%-70% more than for a pure analog or digital board?
Best regards,
Daniel -
Jayson Adair Absolutely. Ship me the first 5 you make. Just let me know when you need payment. :) Needs change, this would make the device a one stop shop. I just received my 1st shipment from you and I already wish I had this card. I would also pay $100 or so more to have this mounted in a heavy milled aluminum case full(17") or 1/2(8.5"). This would sit nicely in an audio rack.
Something like this would be very cool:
this particular case can be purchased for $58, so if you bought quantity, im sure you could get it cheaper.
So to sum up, if you had a product that was mounted in this case that had analog and digital outputs I would happily pay $300. I think thats more than the 60-70% hike you referred to.
Anyone else?
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Jayson Adair to be clear,
$300 gets me:
RPi 3
DIGIDAC One (wow, I just came up with a cool name for the new part)
Power Supply
Case similar to above
8GB SD Card
Assembled by you :) with Roon Pre-installed
When can you ship this?
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HiFiBerry team Hi Jayson,
it's not that simple. We don't build individual boards. While we might think about a board like this, we first need to understand if there is enough demand for it. We can't just build 5 boards, these would be extremely expensive. If there is enough demand from customers, we might develop something like this.
Best regards,
Daniel -
Jayson Adair Im sorry, I thought I was clearly joking about "when can you ship this". :) I was not joking about anything else, and I know what it takes to develop a new product, i'm saying that when/if you make this, send me the first 5. Also, the part about buying assembled in a nice chassis was very serious, even your existing products. I am about to order a DAC+ Bundle from you and wish you had a nice chassis option for it.
Anyway, I love your product, keep up the great work, and get some USA based shipping setup. Need a US distributor?
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Anton Hi Jayson,
we have already some resellers in the US, have a look here: https://www.hifiberry.com/about-us/resellers/
But of course we are always interested in some more. If you want to become one or have an interested contact, just send me a message (anton@hifiberry.com).Cheers,
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Jens Dirksen Hi,
I am supporting Jaysons request for a board with digital and analog outputs.
And I know from the forums (hifi-forum.de, slimdevices.com) that other looking such a device, too. For example, a lot of users of the Squeezebox Receiver use both outputs of this device. And when they have to upgrade (e.g. SB Receiver is broken, they want to listen Hi-Res music), then they have problems to find a similar device.
At the moment, the Hifiberry DAC+ DSP is the only board available with analog and digital output ports but it is limited to one sampling frequency because of the DSP. Therefore, it is e.g. not useful for people who wants to listen to Hi-Res music.
Hence, what we are looking for is a "DAC+ DSP" without DSP. ;-)
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HiFiBerry team I don't see why having a single sample frequency "is not useful" for people who want listen to HiRes music. If your DAC works well with 192kHz, you can use this sample rate for all material.
Also I would like to unserdtand why you would "use both outputs" - what's the idea behind this? -
Jens Dirksen Well, people who listen to Hi-Res music wants to hear their music in best possible quality. And the re-sampling of the input signal is considered as quality reduction. Upsampling would be ok but only by an integer factor, i.e. 48 kHz to 192 kHz. If a signal is re-sampled from 44,1 kHz to 192 kHz, I would assume some drawbacks.
My use case is as follows: The digital output of the "DAC+ DSP" is connected to my AVR because I want to use its Audissey system. And the analog outpit is connected to a headphone amp because the quality of the headphone section of the AVR is not so good.
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HiFiBerry team I'm pretty sure, you're AVR is already running several DSPs (modern AVRs often use more than one) with a fixed internal sample rate ;-) (they just don't tell you)
Modern ASRCs offers a performance that's way better than distortions/noise on the analog part.
For the best analog performance get a DAC2HD and connect your headphone amplifier to it. For your AVR just use HDMI or get another Pi with the Digi+ (however your AVR might not perform better than the DAC2HD).