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Hi Rick,
My preference is for MoOde. I've tried Volumio, Rune and a few other older OSs in the distant past. I find MoOde has the best support and input from users. The forum (http://moodeaudio.org/forum/index.php) contains a wealth of information, a bit like this one!
As the uSD card only holds the OS, 8GB is plenty. You can partition the SD card and load music files there, but it has the disadvantage that when you update the OS the files may be lost. I have also found the best storage is an SSD with USB adaptor connected directly to the Pi's USB. New files can be loaded directly from your PC or Mac via your network.
Be mindful of the load on your Pi, make sure your power supply has sufficient capacity, at least a genuine 3 amps. There's no need to use a Pi4, the 3 series are plenty powerful enough and if you don't need WiFi the current Pi3A is reckoned to be best, possibly due to lack of WiFi interference.
Oh, and of course, I think it sounds best, but that's just my view.

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Edit: Pi 3 Model A+ does have WiFi, but no Ethernet connection. So my assumption about reduced interference is nonsense. Confused Not sure where that info came from, busy rereading the MoOde forum for where that came from.


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16GB SD is plenty big for storing and running the OS.
Volumio seems to be popular.

If it were me I'd be putting piCorePlayer on it and running Squeezelite, but I already have a served network established.

Is the PSU the dual output linear device?
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I use both MoOde and Volumio and get on well with them both.  I think Ian has a preference for MoOde.
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Thanks, great info. I'll give MoOde and Volumio a try.

Originally posted by Chris Firth Chris Firth wrote:

Is the PSU the dual output linear device?

Yes, product page here.

Also had some problems with Tidal Master playback in exclusive mode so thought I'd give Audirvana a try, seems to get better reviews than Roon for sound quality and I don't need any multi-room capabilities.

Straight away it sounds better than Tidal and is working properly with Master playback.

I need to look into the settings but there's a bunch of device specific stuff I'm not sure about for the Majestic.

I have three choices under 'Native DSD Streaming Method': None, convert to PCM, which then asks me for boost in dB from 0 to +6; DSD over PCM 1.0; and DSD over PCM 1.1. Can't find anything searching the forum, does anyone know what setting I should be using?


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Looks like Tidal doesn't support DSD and would only be pertinent with upsampling (source).

As upsampling's irrelevant in my case I guess I'll just leave this on none and the default +6 unless anyone knows better.


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Does the Majestic support integer mode?

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Are there firmware updates for the Majestic that might fix the pop when changing rates?
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