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The 'Air' has made its way to HTS:

http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/h...able-audio.html

TAM

Andrew. As we are still in the pre-production stage... have you thought of adding something like this Wolfson Audio Card onto that air. It would then make it a multi media powerhouse as it could be integrated into a higher audio system, and allow for external devices to stream into it.

Just a thought as it's already designed and built.

Reserved mine! October seems so far away now...

Hi Matt,

Well, there are a few reasons why we won't use this or any other existing DAC, and I'll detail them below. But first, what do you think it would bring to the table to make AxiomAir into a multimedia power house? The digital input?

On to why we won't use this solution:

Our dedicated DAC is already designed, tested, and prototyped and it offers excellent performance.

The Wolfson solution does not use ultra low noise power supplies.

The Wolfson solution is only capable of 24bit/48kHz.

The Wolfson solution is only compatible with Raspberry Pis that are now two generations old.

And finally, Wolfson has little to no support of the background Kernel changes required to make this board/chip work correctly with the Pi. Check out comments on various forums.

Thanks,

Andrew

You guys are really making me want one. Horrible timing.

Well done, Andrew!

Yeah, I'm thinking I may be suckered into getting one. It may end up going to my dad, since I think he would get a ton more use out of it, but I could definitely see borrowing it for taking to the park or wherever.

I'm going to use mine mostly as a high quality kitchen radio & occasionally a music machine being run through my nearby Toshiba Laptop.

My present 'real radio' (Tivoli) just doesn't get good reception from my radio stations in Vancouver or Bellingham, WA (~100 miles away) where it is situated now at the wrong end of the house for reception...

TAM

Andrew. you are correct in wanting the best clean sound that you can get from the unit. I read a post on another forum where someone wanted a digital in and did a quick search and found that.

But thinking about it more, I would rather have a product that does the 1 thing it was really designed to do very well, than trying to make it into a does everything box but will end up doing it all half assed.

I don't know if it was the AxiomAir or another product, but I read recently of a shutoff timer and wake up to music timer. Was that the A^A?

I'm old, slow and just left the '90s. How is this different from a Pi with spdif out to talk to a receiver (your main system)?

That is what I was looking at as a replacement for streaming music to my 2808 now that the desktop that I was using is dead.


Now that I would really like! Then I could wake up every morning to Pink Floyd's Time.