A first impression with allo isolator

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Are you doing any upsampling ?

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no upsampling. And I had to do downsampling yo 96khz To be able to hear 192khz music

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Send me an email, I will get you in touch with Jai.

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“Send me an email, I will get you in touch with Jai”

please give me your email
my email: ndtson@gmail.com
thanks

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Hallo @allo – will it make a difference, sonically speaking, if any, with option (1) iPower5V + RPI-3 + Allo Boss vs. option (2) stock PSU + RPI-3 + Allo Boss + Isolator + Battery Pack vs. option (3) iPower5V + RPI-e + Allo Boss + Isolator? … which option theoretically will sound best … or is it not really comparable at all?

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option 2 and you do not really need to power the Pi with a PSU as the battery feed to the Isolator can be used as the Isolator can feed the Pi (and the Boss Dac) :slight_smile:

But remember, upgrading/fine tuning of your speakers, amp, cabling could have a bigger impact. YMMV.

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Yes, point is, it doesn’t look very stylish …

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The question was on SQ and not style [emoji3]

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Hi Patrick

How do you feed the raspberry pi with the isolator? From the Allo Boss?

Thanks

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Surely the Isolator won’t isolate if it, or the Boss, shares a supply with the RPi?

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Hi Allo ,
after buying 2 isolators on allo.com . I 've got the same problem . It does not play 192 Khz or 384 kHz.

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Yes, you are right, I am seriously considering selling the iPower5V to buy the isolator thing… or if anyone wanted to trade-in?

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I think how you feed the RPI matters less…the important thing is how you feed Isolator + Boss. Batteries are better but depends if your system can reveal those details…

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… may be me.
I’m evaluation my next investment: https://volumio.org/forum/recommendation-buy-hifiberry-dac-pro-allo-boss-t7268.html

What are your terms?

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Can I ask; how are you feeding the pi and Boss? How many hours do you get from the batteries?

And - those new dac’s you are creating, is your goal that those will be compatible with the Isolator (and can be fed from it)? I want to go the battery route, but would like to feed the Boss from the Isolator, and I’m afraid I’ll get tired of charging too often. So I’m considering making a larger battery bank, with for example 3 large lifepo4 in series ( = 9.6V), but that would only be meaningful if the solution is somewhat future proof :wink:

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the rapsberry can feed it however I want, I do with a powerbank of 5v 3 amps. the boss is fed with the isolator.

if the batteries are good and are 1 amp lasts for more than 30 hours. but when it has less load the quality of the sound descends a lot.

I’m with Allo also is my favorite combination, although as dac piano 2.1 is much superior in detail in double mono, but isolator / boss / relay have magic. By the way, with relay attenuator the batteries last about 10 hours.

Best

Jorge

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Thanks very much Jorge, are you saying that as the battery is decharging and the voltage goes down the sound goes bad? Surprised it can last 30 hours, yay :laughing:

Was thinking about buying this, there is also a 6.6V version, I am not sure if the 6.4V will go down below the required 6.2V in the second half. There is also a quice nice charger. Put into a cabinet and with a button, I think it could be nice.

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Yes

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Yes they should be compatible with isolator

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Hi Allo,

Same problem here with a HifiBerry Dac+ Pro. When playing a 192kHz/24bit flac file the music is distorted.