DAC and HiFi amps for UP boards

Rodrigo

Hi there,

I bought a UP Intel x5-Z8300 board and I would like to buy the Pi-DigiAMP+ from www.iqaudio.com. Does someone know if it is compatible with the UP board or I have to use them with the Raspberry Pi?
If not, how could I know which DAC's are compatible with the UP-board? I would like to add a DAC in order to connect it to my hi-fi amp

Kind regards,
Rodrigo

Aling

Hi ,

At this moment, you may not able to use DAC HAT due to the limitation of I2S audio code driver. We just got intel's help to work on it now, hope we can update this topic soon.

Til

Hi Rodrigo,

if you want to have high quality audio, stick with what AlingWu said.

If, however, you don't care about the quality and just want to have an analogue audio output on your UpBoard (and can spare a USB port), have a look at this simple USB audio interface:
https://www.amazon.com/External-Adapter-Headphone-Microphone-Windows/dp/B016CU2PEU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481845853&sr=8-2&keywords=Ugreen+usb+audio

It cost less than 10 bucks, worked out of the box under Ubuntu 16.04 and only needed one line added to the alsa-base.conf under Debian Stretch.
And it doesn't sound that bad. Not great, sure, but gets the job done.

(Of course this is not the only one cheap usb interface, but this is the only one I tested )

Ivane Narimanidze

You can also get HQ audio from HDMI/DP.

There are HDMI spltters available which extracts audio signal from HDMI, unaltered. Than you can route it to DAC/Amp etc.

Here is one example: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10251

Rodrigo

Thanks All, I am going to explore the HDMI option and I will revert.
Cheers,
Rodrigo