Raspberry 2 - Sound

[petros22]

Hello

i'm a new user of raspberry pi 2.
I use it as music server with volumio.
Now i use raspberry analog audio output.
I have to say that the sound quality is good ! (compared to my smartphone samsung ace)
Why everybody saying that the rpi sound is poor?
I use good stereo speakers with sony stereo amp
Is rpi2 better than rpi1?
If i buy the hifi berry it will be even better?

[PeterO]

PI2 will be the same as the PI1 as it is the same hardware in the SoC used to produce the analogue signal. I beleive the PWM technique used is the eqivalent of only 11 or 12 bits. (I may be wrong)

A HiBerry or any of the other I2S DACs available will produce better quality sound even if they only support 16 bit audio (CD eqivalent) or 24 bit (even better).

PeterO

[petros22]

But why everybody is writing that the sound is very bad directly from RPI ? Or maybe I'm deaf ...
I think it is better that low end smartphone sound from the 3,5mm jack.
I discovered that the voulume needs to be set to 95%. When i set 100% volume i hear distortion.

But if you say external DAC will be even better i will buy one.
USB or I2S DAC is better ?

[suffolk tony]

Sorry to deflect this thread a bit - I've got my RPI set up as a Squeezebox server & want to output the audio from the USB into my external DAC/preamp, but can't seem to see how to do this. Help appreciated!

[texy]

Sorry to deflect this thread a bit - I've got my RPI set up as a Squeezebox server & want to output the audio from the USB into my external DAC/preamp, but can't seem to see how to do this. Help appreciated!

That's more than a deflection Please start a new topic.....