Best way to feed a Gungnir Multibit Gen V, for $450 or less

[davide256]

14 hours ago, p-cubed said:

I would like to upgrade the streamer feeding my Schiit  Gungnir MB Gen V.

The current streamer is a RPi 3 running Ropieee, powered by a Jameco LPS, feeding the USB input on the DAC.

It sounds quite decent, but I think the DAC is capable of more if fed a better signal. 

I'm looking for the best sonic upgrade at $450 or less, including power supply.

 

 

Options under consideration are:

• Allo Digione Signature feeding the BNC input
• Allo USBridge Signature feeding the USB input
• PI2AES feeding the BNC input
• Sonore Microrendu feeding the USB input
• Other?

 

I would anticipate powering with an Allo Nirvana, but am open to all suggestions.

Thanks!

The USB input for MB Gungnir is mediocre, I lost patience and sold mine after the Unison upgrade came out.  Buy this if you want to keep the Gungnir and

make the Pi  sound better. Ive used the one I have with both Metrum Octave, Chord Mojo and a Denafrips Ares connected via coax/toslink. Should sharpen

up your transients,dynamics, improve bass impact and eliminate the USB noise susceptibility issues I found with both Eitr and Unison.

 

https://www.denafrips.com/iris

 

 

 

[davide256]

2 minutes ago, davide256 said:

The USB input for MB Gungnir is mediocre, I lost patience and sold mine after the Unison upgrade came out.  Buy this if you want to keep the Gungnir and

make the Pi  sound better. Ive used the one I have with both Metrum Octave, Chord Mojo and a Denafrips Ares connected via coax/toslink. Should sharpen

up your transients,dynamics, improve bass impact and eliminate the USB noise susceptibility issues I found with both Eitr and Unison.

 

https://www.denafrips.com/iris

 

 

 

BTW  I have read good things about the Pi2AES vs Denafrips DDC... if you can get any member validation from this site it might be a great choice but for the moment

I'm classifying it as a UFO due to lack of corroboration.

[davide256]

2 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

You can still use Roon with HQPlayer. Roon does what it does best, and HQPlayer does the playback.

 

 

Agree with what you are saying about Roon and HQPlayer as output. But HQPlayer license is $250-ish… wouldn’t the OP also need at least an i3 server?

[davide256]

2 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

I did assume that whatever he is running Roon on could also run HQP, but I didn't see what device that is in the OP. Did I miss it?

Not named so a question mark…

[davide256]

And upsampling to tame  treble artifacts …my reservation about the PI2AES is its 192 limit