One major point i want to emphasize.
Everyone focuses on the DAC but most DAC's are pretty darn good. The weakest link is often the music server. I have a several thousand dollar mac mini I thought was just fine but it was destroyed hands down by the pi-HAT described above.
So the music server is very important.
The music server does NOT have to be expensive. I would be interested to see if others have observed the same as I did.
Everyone focuses on the DAC but most DAC's are pretty darn good. The weakest link is often the music server. I have a several thousand dollar mac mini I thought was just fine but it was destroyed hands down by the pi-HAT described above.
So the music server is very important.
The music server does NOT have to be expensive. I would be interested to see if others have observed the same as I did.