Vinnn,
Without a doubt you are correct on one point, these settings will make the Raspberry Pi perform worse computationally. But what impact a hamstrung Raspberry Pi has on the audio is another question altogether. I found on the older version of Moode that lowering the CPU frequency as well as the memory frequency had an impact on the sound. Now, I'm not here to tell you it had a better or worse impact, but it had an impact in my system. I believe this thread was started where the OP was asking a similar question to gauge if and to what degree 'tweaks' made an impact in Moode 7. I don't believe it was the OPs intention of going down the path of claiming that no changes other than EQ settings make the slightest impact. The OP and I may have a system different than yours or may be cursed with either extremely acute hearing or also may just actually be clinically insane and actually hear differences, sometimes stark differences.
Personally in my experience, I have found that 'everything' makes an impact on the sound. The AC receptacle, power cord type, bypass capacitors, DC connector type, literally every single thing in the entire system has an impact on the sound, both before and after the DAC. Even the type of circuit breaker you have in your loadcenter and the bus configuration has an impact. But again, I'm not here to make any declarations for others or say 'this has an impact and this doesn't.' I'm here to provide my experience, taken with a grain of salt, and allow for people who wish to experiment to do so and make up their own minds.
There is much in the world of audio that hasn't been studied, and that is part of what makes it such an interesting hobby. Obviously this leads to a lot of interesting conversations between Computer Science Majors and double PHDs in Electrical Engineering with every single measuring device known to man claiming that wire is wire, a capacitor is a capacitor and a resistor is a resistor and that people who change them with different varieties are throwing their money away and only believe the sound changes due to psychological confirmation bias. The same holds true to Raspberry Pi based streamers, since this is a fairly new phenomenon in terms of audio.
I fully respect your opinion and do not wish to change it in any way. If you wish to experiment and hear no difference, then truly I envy you because you've just eliminated many variables on your quest to audio nirvana. If you do not wish to experiment to find if there is an impact, then I fully respect that path as well.
-Allen
Without a doubt you are correct on one point, these settings will make the Raspberry Pi perform worse computationally. But what impact a hamstrung Raspberry Pi has on the audio is another question altogether. I found on the older version of Moode that lowering the CPU frequency as well as the memory frequency had an impact on the sound. Now, I'm not here to tell you it had a better or worse impact, but it had an impact in my system. I believe this thread was started where the OP was asking a similar question to gauge if and to what degree 'tweaks' made an impact in Moode 7. I don't believe it was the OPs intention of going down the path of claiming that no changes other than EQ settings make the slightest impact. The OP and I may have a system different than yours or may be cursed with either extremely acute hearing or also may just actually be clinically insane and actually hear differences, sometimes stark differences.
Personally in my experience, I have found that 'everything' makes an impact on the sound. The AC receptacle, power cord type, bypass capacitors, DC connector type, literally every single thing in the entire system has an impact on the sound, both before and after the DAC. Even the type of circuit breaker you have in your loadcenter and the bus configuration has an impact. But again, I'm not here to make any declarations for others or say 'this has an impact and this doesn't.' I'm here to provide my experience, taken with a grain of salt, and allow for people who wish to experiment to do so and make up their own minds.
There is much in the world of audio that hasn't been studied, and that is part of what makes it such an interesting hobby. Obviously this leads to a lot of interesting conversations between Computer Science Majors and double PHDs in Electrical Engineering with every single measuring device known to man claiming that wire is wire, a capacitor is a capacitor and a resistor is a resistor and that people who change them with different varieties are throwing their money away and only believe the sound changes due to psychological confirmation bias. The same holds true to Raspberry Pi based streamers, since this is a fairly new phenomenon in terms of audio.
I fully respect your opinion and do not wish to change it in any way. If you wish to experiment and hear no difference, then truly I envy you because you've just eliminated many variables on your quest to audio nirvana. If you do not wish to experiment to find if there is an impact, then I fully respect that path as well.
-Allen
