Bricasti M3 In the house

@ddafoe, Since your RaspberyPi with the S/PDIF output running Roon is sounding great, I seen no reason to replace it.  It is cost effective and is doing the job.   

As you posted, your goal is to "try a few new things".  I encourage you to try the RME DAC and also the Topping DAC.   You need to hear these DAC's in your system to determine how they sound.

If possible, I suggest you give the Ayre CODEX DAC a listen.   I temporarily used it in my main audio system and it sounded excellent.  It gets warm so it does need ventilation.   I suggest you use it balanced output to your amplifier since it will sound better with balanced outputs.    

@ddafoe Looking forward to hearing about the dacs.

I did a dac shootout this fall, and comparing a lot of different chips/approaches was quite informative.  I ended up with an audio mirror, and people wanted to tell me that my ears were wrong because you're "supposed" to like Lampizators better. Different systems and different ears = different preferences.

Do report back to add some data points. Good luck.

Hello everybody. I have recently owned the m3 bricasti and I would like to know if my dac already mounts the new mdx card. How can I know? On the display I read mdx 1.0.
Also I would like to know why my daphile mounted on a futro via usb doesn't see the bricasti. thank you all

If the display reads MDx then your unit has the new board. 

Ok, great, thank you! Can you tell me why some forumers have version 1.01 or 1.02 while i read the 1.00 version?Is there the possibility to upgrade firmware version? My m3 is whitout rj 45 input...maybe via usb?