If anything, I suspect that the USB interface is a bit more precise versus the optical output from the Squeezebox Touch. The two DACs sounded even more the same than different. If anything the wider effect on the D90 largely went away. Again, fast switching gave us no difference. So, I swapped the RPi4/USB to the D90 with the RME getting an optical feed. My thought was that she was right, but I felt the RME presented a slightly more delicate image versus one that is a bit bigger and rounder.Īfter several days, our impressions didn't really change. My wife thought that the D90 was wider, slightly fuller. After a while, we found a cut from Pat Green with spooky imaging and played the first 10-15 seconds of the cut over and over from one to the other. Ok, so how do they sound? In a word, fantastic! Doing fast switching, neither my wife or I could reliably tell the difference. I found this trick using ssh to login to the RPi4:Ĭhanging the Squeezelite setting, change the Audio output setting to USB and the Output setting to hw:CARD=DACXXXXXXXX,DEV=0 where the Xs are the serial number of the RME. Many options require using the remote and I had to figure out how to configure it for the RPi4. All settings were the default other than the Loudness on the RME which is very subtle. Both DACs had the volume levels matched as best I could so switching from one to the other was seemless and instantaneous. Topping D90: Squeezebox Touch via opticalīoth units were connected to my BAT VK5i preamp via balanced cables feeding my McIntosh MC30s and Altec Model 19 speakers. After Abe's review of the RME, I decided to give it a whirl. I been using the D90 for many months in my office and have been hankering to upgrade my main system in the family room.
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