Nice posting @ Superbestaudiofriends : Tested Mercury V1 (owned) - Silent angels Munich Ht (owned) - PiAES (owned) Holo Audio Red (loaned) You may consider Ifi neo stream as well. Worked out of the box. : Optical Lan (Optibox) with reclocked Ethernet * , DLNA exclusive Mode, integrated NAA ...

Purist here. After struggling one year to get one of the RasPi based streamers (PiAES- Mercury V1 -Silent Angel Munich) even to show DSD64 over I2S reliable , it took 5 minutes to enjoy DSDx512 with IFi Neo . Synology NAS > Opti >IFiNeo DLNA I2S > HoloAudio Spring 3 KTE > Pad (BubbleUPnP)...

Second half of 2023 . They got the API https://community.volumio.org/t/amazon-music-hd-plugin/11505/60?u=mine08

Thanx. Pulled the trigger.

Only one question (got no answer yet from Ifi support) : Will the Neo stream support DSD 512 native over I2S ? __ My DAC only supports DSD native over I2S (> DSD1024 _no DoP) .

Thanx a lot . This is the crucial point. Even with the Spring 3 KTE with enhanced USB I prefer I2S by a slight margin. May be its the unmodified USB of my RasPi 4 devices (PIAES /Mercury) or maybe my old ears fool me. I dont know. With USB there are no problems (DSD64/128/256/512)at all. Its...

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Some kind of confused. Synology NAS -minimServer > Streamer ? > DLNA - (BubbleUpNp on IPadpro) > DSD 256/ 512 native (I2S) > HoloAudio Spring 3 KTE I do prefer I2S /HoloaudioDAC . There are some interesting DSD256 and DSD 512 files on my NAS. My short Raspi 3/4 experiments with DSD256...

Pin is correct , but No working DSD ( DAC Holo Spring 3) with Mercury , and I2S. Same behaviour here , as reported @ Audiophile Style.

Mercury (Volumio) > Holo spring DAC No DSD at all with I2S . DSD (dop) shows 176,4 KHz ( no sound) DSD (direct)converted to PCM (192 KHz) Tried Volumio . Ropiee , MoOde , Picoplayer. No way.

Michael Kelly (Pi2design) wrote (about 07/01) : We have 50 more orders to ship and will be done over the next two weeks. So , as these14 days are over we are in a very good hope to get a shipment message all day soon. :pray: Update : 7/18/2022 : We now have 30 more orders to ship and should...

I would not buy a unit without I2S . As this is my favorite output to my Holo DAC ( after long testing with a similar Pi4 streamer = https://www.silent-angel-audio.com/munich-m1t B.t.w. Technically not quite the level of Mercury , but with a rockstable OS (VitOs)

@xtiva Ohh.... this would be interesting , as the Hermes was on my wishlist too....

I ordered in June when Mercury was available .You can Spot it here , seems to be a new version with modified case is in work. https://www.pi2design.com/mercury-streamer.html

Hi @xtiva As I see ,you live in Australia . I heard , some Mercury units were delivered with a defective AES and I2S chip ? A little bit freightened here , as I am waiting for my shipment to Europe , and you know its a real p.i.a here with customs und a p.i.a. to have it to send back to US for...