Hey Dave, that would be great, thanks. No rush, but whenever you get a chance to set it up, let me know. I could swing by to do a socially distanced pickup and will give it a test run in my system. It will be interesting to see how this compares to my current setup. I do have a USB decrappifier but don't regularly use it because it sounds...... sort of crappy.
David McGown wrote:
Pete,
I have a spare RPi4 that I can load a Roon Bridge on test it out. I have not tried Roon Bridge on an Raspberry Pi, but there are binaries downloadable from Roon. I think RoPieee is a headless Roon bridge (which is what you want), and there are other. Actually, Roon Server can connect to Logitech Squeezebox devices, including software endpoint implementations like Squeezelite. PiCorePlayer is a very lightweight Raspberry Pi distribution running Squeezelite. There is some debate on whether Squeezelite is better sounding as an endpoint than using Roon Bridge given LMS enabled on the Roon Core. Anyway, I am not presently using my RPi4 endpoint, so you are welcome to try it out. Let me know, and I can setup the Pi.
If you do go with the Pi, the typical upgrades are a better power supply (either a linear or one of the new iFi iPower 5V switchers). Also, I think a USB isolator like the Intona unit would be another upgrade. But you may not need that given your DAC.
David