Raspberry Pi HiFi DAC HAT Audio Card Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 3 B+, Pi 3 B, Pi 2, Pi B+, Pi Zero/Zero W

This is a great little DAC for my raspberry pi. I'm using it with the Zynthian OS to power a little synthesizer. Not the fault of the board itself, but I found that it sits a few mm lower than other DAC boards (apparently) after I ordered a new enclosure to include it. I had to modify the enclosure, and file down some of the solders on the board to keep it from touching a cooling fan that came with the new enclosure which was designed for a similar DAC board, which must have a taller GPIO pin header. Anyway, it works great. Sounds great. The background noise on this is not perceptible (to me), as opposed to the standard headphone port, which is quite noisy indeed.

You can power this DAC hat directly with a nice budget linear regulated power supply (like Jameco 5V 1A, of course you need to cut the connector and use one from a spare USB C cable ) and power the raspberry with its generic SMPS separately. This way, clean power free of noise and ripple will feed this DAC to get the most from it. This DAC works perfectly with Volumio. It has its own setting from the DAC list. It sounds amazing as a streamer/DAC. I'm very satisfied with sound quality.

Used Volumio software with this. Initially it seemed to be fairly good. I was pleased with my purchase. Unfortunately it simply stopped working after a few weeks, I had initially thought this was due to a hardware failure, however the failure was due to a poorly implemented upgrade process on the part of Volumio. Incidently if you acquire one of these boards, Volumio has a driver specific to this board. Should you prefer MoOde, use the HiFiBerry DAC+ driver, and this was how I finally figured out that the failure I experience was not due to a bad board, but Volumio's update. If this DAC can be acquired at an advantageous price, I would recommend it.

Garbage. My last DAC hifiberry plus, worked great, but the RCA outputs got bent when we were moving stuff around and crushed it against the wall so I went out on a limb because it was cheaper, so I bought this one to replace the hifiberry. I couldn't get this one working with Volumio. Volumio has a driver specifically for this DAC but it plays extremely distorted. I tried the hifiberry dac plus driver, allo, almost all the drivers in Volumio but none of them work. Stay away from this DAC, spend the couple of dollars more and get something reputable.

Great quality for the money. Really high output level and very clean. I use 3 of these with rpi3 and I’m very happy with them.

Worth noting that a usb phone charger didn't work as a independant 5v power supply but the Jameco unit did fine. Good value.

infomration you need to use this! Be aware, altough you see a headpphe jack, it is only for line level audio. There is no hadphone amplifier on this unit. This is an excelent sounding dac made by wisdPI. Unforunatly it does not come with duucmentation, so you will need the informationbelow in order to sue it. I found this is well built, using Burr Brown dac and Wima capacitors (excellet parts for those who do not know) To use this you will need one of the Raspberry pi music playback systems such as: LibreElec, OSMC, Max2Play, RuneAudio, Volumio, Moode, PiCorePlayer, PiMusicBox, Max2Play, Moode, PiMusicBox OpenELEC, Debian, Ubuntu etc. for systems not listed, you can edit the config: a. SSH into your RPI or get in terminal from gui (google how if you do not already know) b. Type "cd .." and press enter (no quotes) c. Type "mount -o remount,rw /flash" (no quotes) to remount the flash directory as rewritable d. Type "nano /flash/config.txt" (no quotes) e. Arrow down to the bottom and type this at the end: dtoverlay=allo-boss-dac-pcm512x-audio I used it with Volumio without issue. I hope you found this helpful

setup this board on Raspberry pi 4 with Plex and plexamp.