I’ve got RPi4. I’m keen to give the NAA a go, I have a spare Pi4 until the Pi2AES arrives, so great opportunity.
Plus I can’t get the desktop HQP working yet🤬 Got home all pumped, switched the RPi to output in the HQP settings…but still nada. Roon now saying that it can’t connect to HQplayer
I get a nice new LPS next week that was supposed to be paired with the Pi2AES. Might need a re-think. Kitchen s system sounds like it might deserve the love😃
Hmm I now have a fair few permutations of hardwares I need to think about. First world issues!
Both your Pi’s (usb and the second one with Digione) have you listened to both in the same set up, AB testing? Any preferences spdif v usb?
No DigiOne feeds an AVR in living room. Can’t feed this AVR USB so no comparison possible unless I used a USB to SPDIF converter but that would be silly way to have more clutter there. DigiOne + NAA OS works great for that zone. Tiny little box out of the way, unseen.
I haven’t used the DigiOne with my RPi4 USB setups because those upsample to high sample rates. DiGiOne is capped at PCM192k which is great with AVR anyway.
I use a Yamaha Aventage AVR in my main set up. It drives the big speakers so nicely still. I have a little E30 DAC with a Pi and Digione. I love the sound from such a simple set up.
You can probably have a think about whether to buy Desktop or Embedded licence.
Embedded license allows you to control HQPlayer from a tablet while you’re sitting down. Via web config page. Like you’re used to with RoPieee.
No need to interact with a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
You already have Roon Server running on Ubuntu. Just install HQPlayer Embedded on the same machine, so it becomes a totally headless server for Roon + HQP.
You can do the free Embedded trial but wait a week or two till @jussi_laako makes a really important change to make things work better:
I’m just starting to have my first taste of HQPlayer. I got a NAA up and running. First impressions are very good.
I also tried desktop and embedded on Ubuntu, but did not understand the “bins”. The 3 most recent codes for Ubuntu focal (dated 25th October). Do I install those? Are they the dependencies? Sorry for the simpletons questions, but I got a little lost with this part of the installation process.
Are there any do’s and don’ts with the filter settings? I’m happy with pcm at this time. But my DAC is saying 384 KHZ but I thought I’d set it for max 192? Is this what the DAC is receiving or sending?
You need the .deb packages, the two other files are metadata and not necessary for operation. There are two builds, the “generic” one which works on CPUs with minimum SSE4.2 instruction set. Then there’s the “amd” build which is for CPUs with AVX2 instruction set support.
It is generally best to send DAC the highest rate data it supports from HQPlayer.
Yes, DAC displays it’s operation rate as controlled by HQPlayer.