Holo Audio Red Streamer

[Johnybuchar]

Did someone try the Holo Red with Musician (Pegasus) DAC via I2S? Is it compatible? Thank you!

 

[photobillyli]

It’s ON when (pure) DSD is playing.
Unless you’re using DOP, the DAC has no way of knowing that the bitstream it’s receiving is PCM or DSD.

Thank you.

But I am already feeding DSD native signals to Red + Cyan 2 via I2S with the I2S_DSD_OFF. The Cyan 2 can recognise the signals coming from the Red is DSD. Do I still need to tur the I2S_DSD_ON? Will it make the DSD playback even better?

And how about the I2S_MCLK, how does it affect the sound??

 

[Clemmaster]

Thank you.

But I am already feeding DSD native signals to Red + Cyan 2 via I2S with the I2S_DSD_OFF. The Cyan 2 can recognise the signals coming from the Red is DSD. Do I still need to tur the I2S_DSD_ON? Will it make the DSD playback even better?

And how about the I2S_MCLK, how does it affect the sound??

Are you sending pure DSD? Or DSD in a PCM package (DOP)?

 

[photobillyli]

Are you sending pure DSD? Or DSD in a PCM package (DOP)?

In my HQP setting, it is "none" under SDM pack, so I assume it is "pure" DSD

 

[Pulcino]

My red finally arrived. The redOS sd works, but I cannot get my flashed moode sd running so far. To my DAC I 2S sounds better than AES, no other output compared do far. Let’s further investigate.

 

[TurboDorkDon]

Just got my shipping notification for my Red - should be here in a couple days!! Very excited.

 

[Pulcino]

Me again,

RedOS with MConnect plays Qobuz directly, if I disconnect my phone the Red continues to play, nice!

I don’t get MoOde playing, my SD created via Balena Etcha is working but I cannot access the renderer configuration to change to MPD and add Qobuz.

 

[Pulcino]

And strange that the Red is seen by MConnect correctly bur Rigelian sees it not as a player, only as a renderer.

 

[Alchemy1]

I hope this wasn’t covered already, but…

Is anyone having lots of issues with Tidal connect? I’m running the stock OS and latest firmware. The Red is in performance mode. I went from a glitch every now and then to a glitch every time I use my Red.

-if I force close the app, I have to restart the Red to get Tidal Connect to work

-if I let an album finish and there is a gap between the album/song ending and selecting another song/album, I have to restart

-sometimes I can’t connect from the jump. As soon as I open Tidal to start a listening session, I connect/get music playing

-recently, my iPad will allow me to select my Red for Tidal Connect, but my iPhone will not.

The glitches are cleared every time I do a software or hardware reset, but I don’t want to have to do that every time I want to listen or mid-listening session. I leave the Red on all the time, as it seems it was designed to do.

 

[JaquesGelee]

I don’t get MoOde playing, my SD created via Balena Etcha is working but I cannot access the renderer configuration to change to MPD and add Qobuz.

I tried Balena Etcher on Windows and MacOS too, i couldn´t get alternative OS like MoOde or Roopie to run, Led is red all the time.

 

[Axiom05]

I tried Balena Etcher on Windows and MacOS too, i couldn´t get alternative OS like MoOde or Roopie to run, Led is red all the time.

For what it's worth, I was never able to get RopieeXL to work on my Red. The Red would boot and I could connect to the RopieeXL web interface but never could get it to play music. I'm currently using piCorePlayer/Squeezelite on the Red and it works and sounds great (LMS is running on a Pi4b on my network).

 

[Pulcino]

For what it's worth, I was never able to get RopieeXL to work on my Red. The Red would boot and I could connect to the RopieeXL web interface but never could get it to play music. I'm currently using piCorePlayer/Squeezelite on the Red and it works and sounds great (LMS is running on a Pi4b on my network).

Hi, have you compared sound quality vs RedOS? Does it sound better?

 

[Meridian7]

I hope this wasn’t covered already, but…

Is anyone having lots of issues with Tidal connect? I’m running the stock OS and latest firmware. The Red is in performance mode. I went from a glitch every now and then to a glitch every time I use my Red.

-if I force close the app, I have to restart the Red to get Tidal Connect to work

-if I let an album finish and there is a gap between the album/song ending and selecting another song/album, I have to restart

-sometimes I can’t connect from the jump. As soon as I open Tidal to start a listening session, I connect/get music playing

-recently, my iPad will allow me to select my Red for Tidal Connect, but my iPhone will not.

The glitches are cleared every time I do a software or hardware reset, but I don’t want to have to do that every time I want to listen or mid-listening session. I leave the Red on all the time, as it seems it was designed to do.

My Tidal Connect is fine with the HoloRed. But of late I had deep trouble with Spotify Connect it went bonkers. No restart or re-install could solve. But a factory reset of my modem/router was solution. Might be worth trying?

 

[Patu]

I had no problems with RoPieeXL on my Red, worked just as Red OS.

If you use HQPlayer, I recommend using the dedicated NAA image. It had slightly better sound quality than Red OS or RoPieeXL. Between RoPieeXL and Red OS, I couldn't hear any difference.

 

[Alchemy1]

My Tidal Connect is fine with the HoloRed. But of late I had deep trouble with Spotify Connect it went bonkers. No restart or re-install could solve. But a factory reset of my modem/router was solution. Might be worth trying?

Excellent this. Thanks. I’ll try that today.