soundcheck's - audio@vise

I was contacted about the DFRobot RPI filter HAT the other day. It seems the link I posted some years ago goes dead nowadays. Let's reca...

I'd like to introduce you to the result of my latest audio streaming project.  Spoiler alert: It's the best RPi based compact strea...

I am usually doing a little regression testing on new hardware and new software, simply to see if my own operating system works flawless. Ov...

Why M.2 NVME SSD on a RPi5???   We might intend to create an even better audio streaming giant !?!?  ;) I am always looking for increasin...

Since mid of November 2023 I own the recently launched Raspberry Pi5 with 8GB RAM. Not that I was unhappy with the RPi4 based setup. Th...

Once in a while I am still receiving inquiries of fellow audio folks asking for my Squeezebox Touch Toolbox. Squeezebox Touch, a device that...

The winter season, a great time to do some hardware work. Doesn't happen that often around here - hardware work. Why not getting rid ...

Hi folks. The foundation has updated its kernel tree a short while ago. It seems they plan to switch to kernel version 6.1 during the year. ...

Not much going in RPi land these days. It's unbelievable that a whole industry branch gets dragged down currently. However. Many of us s...

IanCanada recently released a new gadget called UcPi. It's basically a supercap power buffer for the RPi. It follows a to me new appr...

Let's talk a bit about amplifiers. I owned numerous devices. Commercial and DIY. Jeff Rowland, Anaview Abletec, Hypex,  T-amps, SMSL ...

For almost a year or so I am running an IMO excellent Gustard A18 DAC.  The Gustard builds around the top of the line AKM AK4499 and Accusil...

The RPI foundation finally officially announced the release of RPI OS 64.

Hey...  ...just figured that the site visit counter of blogger passed the 1.000.000 for audio@vise!!! I thought it'd be worth mentioning...

On December 5th  pCP 8.1 was released. I just did a sKit regression test on my RPi4. I used the 64 bit version. And I did a maiden installat...

I just uploaded a seriously modified version 1.4 of sKit-custom-squeezelite.sh (UPDATE Nov-12-21 - I uploaded 1.4.2-beta. It comes with a fe...

 Hi there. Just recently a small - potentially interesting - performance enhancement for flac processing had been introduced. Those of you w...

Did you ever realize that you can easily discern sound quality differences on most of these numerous audiophile a/b device comparisons over ...

Hi there. I uploaded a new version (1.5.) of sKit.

In 2012 I wrote an article about Full Digital Amps . I just updated it a little.  That's one part of the news. During those days I was t...