Nice , how is the 5MHz wideband with HQP DSD256 output?
Anyone having experience from the LHY RPI Streamer with Ropieee? It should to be possible to replace original OS and instead boot from card with HQP RPI NAA, as it is a RPI basically. I prefer Jussis dedicated NAA OS rather that a compilation from another actor, with an unknown ambition av keeping up-to-date.
Is it silent to the extreme? They have replaced power supply and word clock, but since there are onboard DC/DC converters, I have my thoughts about going all in on a device like this before actually having some reviews.
Sorry I don’t have any experience with this particular unit. Have you tried using a regular raspberry pi 4 as a NAA, powered by Jussi’s recommended CUI medical grade psu. (He’s done some measurement to be quite good in performance), and see how you like it? And perhaps down the road, add a JDS synapse or an intona
I suppose you need to at least form some sort of expectation to compare with?
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Thanks for replying. 
I have had RPI4 in a number of reinkarnations, but I cannot say it satisfies my expectations. Now, there has been some good development of hats that is cleaning power, even battery hats, and I have not tested those. The experience from the trials have left me a bit reluctant to buy new hardware, hence my question also for this more lavish device from LHY. I try to learn from others rather that making another mistake again, that has left me a bit wing clipped. I still mourn my Matrix Audio USB card that I sold, but have fiber optic isolation working quite well know. Now the piece left for action should be the word clock, my Matrix card had a good output clock, and this LHY also incorporate a better clock. But clean power in all stages have proven very important …
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Well if you had previously tried a RPI4 with a low noise PSU and an intona and that’s not up to your expectation, then yes by all means try something different.
My experiences with NAAs are quite different actually. My Fitlet3 as a NAA, takes SFP+ input, and is powered by a IFI power Elite and usb out to an intona to my dac. It sounded great but just last week I took the Fitlet3 out of the chain to update its bios and figured I would just use my RPI4 as a NAA that’s also running minimserver for local library, powered by the CUI psu Jussi recommended. I don’t think I could detect any differences compared to the Fitlet3.
My experiences with other NAAs I had including the Holo Red, UP Gateway, RPI4, RPI5 powered by ipower Elite or Farad LPS are quite similar.
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Hi all
I’ve just got myself a RPi4 and I’m clearly doing something wrong…
Help?
Roon doesn’t see the HQplayer RPi4
Presumably I put in the address of the RPi4 not the Mac mini that’s running HQPlayer?
I suspect my mistake has something to do with the input settings?
You have to put HQPlayer server ip-address to Roon settings. If it’s running on the same machine as Roon server, just leave the default “localhost” text there. Roon sends music to HQP server and HQP server sends it to HQP NAA endpoint and so on.
Also double check that you have correct device selected from the HQP output settings. With Holo, there’s usually two options.
Also, here are the official instructions for setting up Roon → HQPlayer link:
It is also imporant to pay attention to the last bullet point there. It is most common source of problems…