streaming DAC or network player

 

on roonlab forum:

I believe Volumio to be a music player application using the music player daemon under Linux as backend. I don’t see any relationship with Roon. Ropieee is a specially tailored Linux distribution to run the Roon Bridge software, and nothing else. It is easy to set up and to administer. DietPi on the other hand is a lightweight Linux distro tailored for RPi with the flexibility to run a wide selection of software. As is often the case, with more flexibility comes a little more work to set up things. I myself use Ropieee with a RP4 as end point for a USB DAC/head phones amp, and it is working very well.

roonbridge on raspberry pi:

pops and clicks of Raspberry Pi USB bus

roon server:

First thing first:

if you have subscribed to high quality lossless audio sources, choose those with best DAC and best SINAD, and use optical link, and good isolated power supply

if you are just trying the DACs as a new hobby, try a raspberry pi hat

 WhatHiFi 

Darko audio 

Roon bridge. 

Ropieee

roon bridge rpi github

SABRE tech IC info

raspida

diyaudio on ES9038 chip