For what it’s worth, I have two Pi B streamers, one running Volumio out to the stereo and one running OSMC for video streaming.

If I understand correctly this also includes a DAC so I would replace mine with this however it is not a streamer so then my DAC Streamer would connect to this. If you’re planning to adopt the latest 4K sources such as the Apple TV4K or a 4K Blu-ray player, they will not work with your legacy AVR with HDMI v1. font-weight:bold;">Separate the sound and vision from your Smart TV or other AV source, with the Pulse Eight HDMI DAC. All of those will result in edge jitter on the biphase signal, which will stress the clock recovery circuit; this can only improve timing jitter by a given degree. Optical fibres eliminate electrical noise coupling from source to destination, but electrical noise at the source can still cause timing jitter in the transmitted signal.Richer Sounds Ltd (Registered company address: Richer House, Gallery Court, Hankey Place, London, SE1 4BB. It is a very old board design that has not changed much from the Emotiva UMC-1 (and the contemporaneous NuForce AVP-18) using the same Cirrus Logic DAC from the early 2010s.

We manufacture and sell our own award-winning Essence HDMI DACs and we’re the US dealer for Acoustic Energy Speaker Systems from the UK, FIBBR Ultra Pro HDMI v2. Blustream is an official adopter and alliance member of HDBaseT, positioning the company at the forefront of this advanced technology. This is in contrast to a CD player, or a destination-clocked protocol (I2S or 'asynchronous' USB), where the DAC clock is the timing master, local to the DAC, and data is pulled from the source. This Evolve II-4K gives you the ability to use virtually any Blu-ray player with any legacy or current multichannel analog preamplifier, or preamp section contained in a receiver.With a full battery charge this little thing does a fairly good job, I believe it does some kind of re-clocking (maybe even async) on its SPDIF inputs.