and that’s platedwall fished

I’m going to assume this means a wall plate and jack?

As opposed to the Verizon installer who just drilled a hole through my house, ran a wire from the ONT up to the 2nd floor, and put a large knot on the inside to keep it from falling back through… *sigh*

Didn’t even strap the cable or anything, it’s just out there flopping.

An observational assessment of my ‘white box’ DVD player from Amazon (literally no brand name on it anywhere).

The output of the DVD player’s RCAs sounds the same on my system as the optical or coax routed through my SMSL SU-1 DAC.

I assumed the DVD Player’s internal would be lower quality, color the sound, induce some noise, something.

Nope…Optical, RCA, and Digital Coax all sounded exactly the same. The mechanical parts of the player itself is noisy when spinning up, but …yeah…I think the difference in much of the digital gear isn’t maybe the much chips and circuits as it is the parts tolerances, build quality, and “extra features” (if any).

change the be-fr to us-en for the US version:

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/offer-qobuz

-20% - 3 months streaming with StudioTotal : $31.17

-20% - 6 months streaming with StudioTotal : $62.35

-10% - 12 months streaming with StudioTotal : $116.99

I just use a 50$ Raspberry Pi and digital output for streaming

I used a Pi3 with a HifiBerry DAC for several years.

I recently switched to a WiiM Pro with an SMSL SU-1 DAC.

With the DAC, it sounds “slightly” different than the Pi setup, but not enough to say which is better or what is different.

The WiiM wins for “easier setup”, but I still rely heavily on my Pi.

The Pi is running Logitech Media Server to host the library. I typically use Squeezer to playback from my local library. WiiM just shows up as a player for LMS/Squeezer.

Browsing from Squeezer on my phone seems faster to load and search than using the WiiM app to do the same.

Spotify playback is still handled through the Spotify App and using the WiiM as the player (much like using Spotty with LMS).