@usery I know about the RaspberryPi and HiFiberry Dac. I’m concerned that won’t give me the sound quality I’m seeking.
However, the approach of using a general purpose computer running some Linux flavor has become my preferred option. I just decided to go with more powerful CPU’s and better DAC’s.
In the last few days I extended my system to whole-house music playback. My favored music player is cmus, something I just discovered while working on this project:
CMUS (C* Music Player) - A Console Based Audio Player for Linux https://www.tecmint.com/install-cmus-music-player-in-linux/
Each room now has a laptop (connected via wired Ethernet), a USB DAC, a power amp and speakers. Here’s how it is organized.
- home network extending to each room, where I have:
I can control playback from any computer on my network, including a laptop over WiFi. I could also use my phone as a remote if I wished, but so far I haven’t felt the need.
The beauty of this approach is that it is very simple and very flexible. The simplicity surprised me.
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However, the approach of using a general purpose computer running some Linux flavor has become my preferred option. I just decided to go with more powerful CPU’s and better DAC’s.
In the last few days I extended my system to whole-house music playback. My favored music player is cmus, something I just discovered while working on this project:
CMUS (C* Music Player) - A Console Based Audio Player for Linux https://www.tecmint.com/install-cmus-music-player-in-linux/
Each room now has a laptop (connected via wired Ethernet), a USB DAC, a power amp and speakers. Here’s how it is organized.
- home network extending to each room, where I have:
- laptop
- USB DAC
- power amp
- speakers
- Linux
- PulseAudio
- ssh
- tmux
- cmus
I can control playback from any computer on my network, including a laptop over WiFi. I could also use my phone as a remote if I wished, but so far I haven’t felt the need.
The beauty of this approach is that it is very simple and very flexible. The simplicity surprised me.
.