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  1. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    What are the sonic differences between the PI2AES 2.0 and the first PI2AES?
    Post by: Dandou, May 19, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  2. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    Thank you. I ordered my PI2AES on February 2022. Is it revision P3.3 or P4?
    Post by: Dandou, Nov 18, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  3. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    Hello, Does anyone know if the I2S output of the PI2AES is compatible with the I2S input of Gustard DACs (the x26 Pro, and the R26 R2R)?
    Post by: Dandou, Nov 17, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  4. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I don't know the Linux distribution that you are using. But in GentooPlayer, MIN, RT and ST kernels work all very well with the RBi3 and RBi4...
    Post by: Dandou, Nov 8, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  5. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    You should change the settings on your Audio-GD DAC, and it will reverse the channels. There are two possible settings for that. Look for...
    Post by: Dandou, Aug 28, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  6. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    An update about KALI. The good news are that KALi was not killed nor damaged. The support of Audiophonics tried it with other HATs, and it works...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 21, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  7. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    Your post is a very clear, and comprehensive explanation of what eventually happened.
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 12, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  8. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I was considering buying the batteries power supply from Ian Canada....
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 12, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  9. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I don't know if the clocks are different. I think that the two boards do different jobs. The KALI was sent to the support of Audiophonics to...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 12, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  10. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    It was a serious upgrade. With a more detailed, and much better resolved sound. Once you get a sound improvement in your system, you ressent the...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 11, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  11. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I do not argue about anything that you say nor about electrical noise. I point to the clocking of the PCM sound during its conversion to I2S....
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  12. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I never said that the synchronous data transfer does not matter. Low jitter does matter of course. But it's not the only factor that matters, if...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  13. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    You mess between two different things. Being the clock master reduces jitter during the transfer of the data. PI2AES does it very well. But the...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  14. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I want to add something, because I think that I may have created a wrong impression. An I2S Reclocker is beneficial to all the RBI based network...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  15. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    Yes, it's very possible that KALi is damaged. I don't have a way to check what happened to it. And merrily my PI2AES continues to work fine. This...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  16. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    An update: Audiophonics were not sure that Allo KALI + PI2AES will remain stable over time. I made them playing together non-stop during 48...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  17. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    @Michael Kelly , My technical understanding is limited. I will submit your questions after the week-end to my contact at Audiophonics, and will...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 8, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  18. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    As far as I understood, the clock of the RBI is not set at a frequency that is suited to match the frequencies of the PCM sound. In addition, it...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 8, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  19. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    There's something more to say. According to my contact at Audiophonics, the advantage of the €100 KALI board over the €1,050 Audio-GD digital...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 8, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
  20. Dandou
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    Dummies Guide to Pi2AES! Throw away your PC or laptop.

    I don't use a drive that is attached to the RBI. I stream to the PI2AES through Ethernet from a M1 Mac Mini as a source… The RBI runs GentooPlayer...
    Post by: Dandou, Jul 8, 2022 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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