Durio Sound DAC

[selby]

Been looking at DACs again and while looking at HiFiBerry I came across Durio Sound and in particular their Dual Mono version:

http://www.gravitech.us/duduala.html

Anyone got one?

Any idea what the very best possible power supply would be? I'm thinking a more substantial power supply like the Doc builds 'must' be better than a cheapo 5v power supplies.

[terrybooth]

Try Fretless.

[Fretless]

Walterwhite has a Durio and seems to be very happy with it. It provides extremely high quality analogue output. But if you are using an external DAC (like a Hegel) then a Pi & Hifiberry Digi+ would be a good alternative.

Power supplies - At the moment I have a 5V/3A powerbank running the Pi, sounds great and one charge gives about 40 hours playing time. No worries about mains noise or fuzzy wall-warts.

Found a web posting from someone who has Tidal running via Volumio (Pi controller) using Bubble UPNP. And the next version of Volumio should support streaming services.

[selby]

Do you know anyone using the Lyrebird?

http://www.tjaekel.com/lyrebird/index.html

Looks like a step up. As for a Hegal its on my list but is going to take me a while to save for.

[Fretless]

A cheap n cheerful idea would be to get a Pi with Hifiberry DAC to play with. Later you can upgrade to a Durio or go for a Digital output and external DAC. Believe me it's fun.

[selby]

I need to investigate the Tidal integration as that's critical.

[Fretless]

Somebody on here (despearce - see 'Life of Pi' thread) recommended Max2Play as a Pi OS - that is associated to the Squeezebox/Squeezelite system and LMS (Logitech Media Server) and can certainly access services like Tidal.

Volumio can only run Spotify directly but Volumio 2 (due later this year) will have an open platform for Streaming services.