Article: DIY Music Server and Streamer for the Audio Hobbyist

[sjj]

Bob, thanks for pulling this together. It’s good to see RPi’s get recoginition as a capable audiophile device. I’ve applied the tweaks and now need to settle into some serious listening.
I think you’ll be impressed with the Pi2AES once you get up and running.

Fyi, I located info as follows on how to manage Qobuz favorites from the Material skin:

 

-Navigate until you see the track listing of an album you want to add

-Add 1 track from that album to playlist

-Click more on the track now in your playlist

-Choose On Qobuz

-Now you can add the Artist, the Album or the Track to your Qobuz favourites via Manage.

 

Hope this help others that were like me struggling to figure this out.

[sjj]

Bob, have you noticed if your LMS server and it’s h/w, power or tweaks influence the SQ when streaming from Qobuz?

[sjj]

Not sure if anyone else noticed this. I installed the DX Engineering ISO-PLUS Ethernet RF Filters on my system today and noticed what seemed to be some of the midrange was at a much lower volume to the point where it was difficult to hear in some tracks. I removed the filters and everything sounded normal.

[sjj]

The WiFi to Ethernet bridge sounds interesting and something I liked to try. I’ve started to look into extenders but haven’t narrowed them down to one I would like to purchase. When reading the reviews many of them seem to be problematic.

[sjj]

I disabled digital volume control and noticed a good improvement in SQ. Now using my preamp to control the volume.