Dennis from Venice
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- Jul 18, 2024
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Well, I am more than happy. My old setup was a Raspberry Pi 4 with Ropieee feeding a high end DAC via USB and then the DAC output directly to an amp. This setup had some issues. One was there was no bass control as I had the sub wired in parallel to the mains. Two was there was no preamp and when I used the DAC for volume control and the source (Roon for example) for volume control, the result could easily be distortion. The solution was to always keep the DAC at 2V output - sometimes a pain. Third was the annoyance of the DAC inputs needing to be changed via remote or on the front panel. There was no direct IR so the inputs needed to be toggled and this was difficult from across the room.
My setup now is the Ultra feeding an A/B amp via RCA and my sub is hooked to the SUB OUT. I kept but rarely use the Raspi 4 with Ropieee connected to the optical input of the Ultra. This gives me Airplay 1 and 2, Plexamp and more.
Now the Ultra senses which input I am using. I just hit play on Roon and almost immediately sound come out. The ESS DAC in the Ultra is really good and I'm comparing to my $500 Gustard DAC.
I also did an Ultra room correction and it did a good job. I had used REW with a USB mike with Roon before and maybe I'll repeat the correction with REW but in that case I would have correction only with Roon. But it would be nice to measure the two methods before and after correction in my small room.
My sources are Roon (I paid an online service to digitize my SACD and CD collection), Tidal, QOBUZ, & SiriusXM and my tastes are usually classical.
My setup now is the Ultra feeding an A/B amp via RCA and my sub is hooked to the SUB OUT. I kept but rarely use the Raspi 4 with Ropieee connected to the optical input of the Ultra. This gives me Airplay 1 and 2, Plexamp and more.
Now the Ultra senses which input I am using. I just hit play on Roon and almost immediately sound come out. The ESS DAC in the Ultra is really good and I'm comparing to my $500 Gustard DAC.
I also did an Ultra room correction and it did a good job. I had used REW with a USB mike with Roon before and maybe I'll repeat the correction with REW but in that case I would have correction only with Roon. But it would be nice to measure the two methods before and after correction in my small room.
My sources are Roon (I paid an online service to digitize my SACD and CD collection), Tidal, QOBUZ, & SiriusXM and my tastes are usually classical.