Hello! Basically I use my Playmate to music but I discovered that I have one PLAY PCB left v1.6. It's complete and working as I remember. Soooo.... now I wonder If I can make it work somehow? I guess I should find some matching parts like USB xmos module, Front panel with volume control, power...

Hi, did anyone connect Playmate to Raspberry Pi already? Is this possible to play some music with Foobar2000 or any other good player on this device? What software you got? Cheers, Robert

That's true indeed. I posted in the wrong thread. I meant PLAYMAYE of course. Sorry guys, DON'T do this to PLAY.

This is sick, nothing works for me: This is what I get all the time no matter how hard I try to follow these instructions :D

Hi, did you successfully updated the firmware drivers on your playmates? I have an error and I don't know what goes wrong.

It might be confusing but try to install Win8 or Vista drivers as well, for me it solved the problem previously with my PLAY on Windows7 ;)

Yes 2x OPA2227 in buffer :wink: and one DIP8 socket with 2xOPA627. an yeah, when I switch to 6,5x gain there are some instability issues indeed (i'm going to switch them today :) ) - thanks for advice! I'm using 2,5x low gain at all time. I have to say, I own my o2 for over a year and I can't...

Hello, yes I tryied Fiio FH5 with both V6 Everest/classic and LME combos. In my opinion V6s are not best match with sensitive IEMs like Fiio FH5. Compared to LME combo (49990 and 49720) (and probably any other low noise op-amps like this) the noise is approximately 2-3x louder on V6. I have to...

I don't have tools to measure this but it's significantly lower with LME than V6

I use V6 Classic everest combos in Playmate, unfortunately don't have any of op-amps you listed above Update: What a surprise! With LME49990 in gain and LME49720 in I/V there is significant lower background noise compared to V6's (about 3 times less) Using Fiio FH5

I confirm, with FH5 I feel like walking through the coastline, hearing the sound of the sea :D

Did you try optical input in your PLAYMATES? I just did and i think it sounds even purer :O There's no ground loop, no usb power trash gets throgh, no USB driver problems, issues etc. (of course). Despite the limited toslink bitrate it's absolutely worth to try! btw. thanks for the graphs, now...

Gonna listen from O2 paired with Playmate then and see, omg this is no good :D

Black background with AKG K712 pro (62 ohm), AKG K271 (55 ohm), Beyers DT990 pros (250 ohm). Audible noise with RHA MA390 (16 ohm) and barely audible with Superlux 681, and soon I will be testing Fiio FH5 (19 ohm) which is multi-driver but stil IEM - will let you know.

Switching low/high gain doesn't change the noise level - it's always the same, audible but not annyoying. I have a similar feeling about sensitive headphones and noise level. Why is that? The switchable gain doesn't mean a thing while not decreasing noise level with sensitive headphones...