Newbie here straight in with questions for you experts on here.
Bit of background.
Dragged my old HIFI gear out of the loft that I bought in the mid 80's it consisted of NAD 3020, Ariston Q Deck, and a pair of Mordaunt Short MS25 speakers. It all still played but I soon got the bug again and upgraded my amp to a Marantz PM6006 and some Focal Aria 906 speakers. Still using my Arison Q Deck and streaming Spotify with a Chromecast Audio.
I fancy a little project and was thinking of building some sort of streamer/dac with a Raspberry Pi and one of the dac hats like:-
http://iqaudio.co.uk/hats/47-pi-dac-pro.html
https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-pro/
https://www.justboom.co/product/justboom-dac-hat/
Now playing the CCA does sound pretty good in fact it sounds better than my Turntable but that is probably in need of an upgrade.
I would be wanting to stream local audio files and play Spotify.
A few question.
Would I get a better sound with the Pi dac than the Marantz inbuilt dac ?
Could I stream Spotify through the Pi ?
Could I connect the Pi to my amp ?
Which is the best sounding dac ?
Sorry for so many questions and thanks in advance.
Bit of background.
Dragged my old HIFI gear out of the loft that I bought in the mid 80's it consisted of NAD 3020, Ariston Q Deck, and a pair of Mordaunt Short MS25 speakers. It all still played but I soon got the bug again and upgraded my amp to a Marantz PM6006 and some Focal Aria 906 speakers. Still using my Arison Q Deck and streaming Spotify with a Chromecast Audio.
I fancy a little project and was thinking of building some sort of streamer/dac with a Raspberry Pi and one of the dac hats like:-
http://iqaudio.co.uk/hats/47-pi-dac-pro.html
https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac-pro/
https://www.justboom.co/product/justboom-dac-hat/
Now playing the CCA does sound pretty good in fact it sounds better than my Turntable but that is probably in need of an upgrade.
I would be wanting to stream local audio files and play Spotify.
A few question.
Would I get a better sound with the Pi dac than the Marantz inbuilt dac ?
Could I stream Spotify through the Pi ?
Could I connect the Pi to my amp ?
Which is the best sounding dac ?
Sorry for so many questions and thanks in advance.