I’m trying to install Volumio 2.029 on a raspberry Pi3 with a ES9018Mk2 DAC I2S.
The problem is that i can only have a very saturated sound.
I’ve seen Tony’s post (es9018k2m-based-streaming-solution-t2087.html) and signature so it may work. But By following tony’s procédure, i’ve still got the issue.
Can someone help me to configure Volumio 2 to work with this DAC?
I have got a similar trouble on a diy chinese dac board based on ES9018K2M (4 wires) : Crappy sound when playing 16/44 files . But sound is ok when playing other sampling rate and resolutions. The only solution i found was replacing volumio with Moode
It seems that the ESS 9018 needs a dedicated driver and overlay. If you could get me in touch with someone involved in the development of the DAC I will request the driver source, and IF GPL compatible, I will add to Volumio (so it will work without issues).
Let me know
It’s a known problem.
ES9018K2M I2S DAC card on Raspberry pi 3 causes very distorted noisy sound when playing 44.1KHz/16 Bit flac files.
While Other Hi-resolution flac files are OK including 44.1KHz/24 Bit flac and 11MHz DSD files.
I have tested the same DAC card on Odroid C1+ .
Odroid plays fine 44.1KHz/16 bit flac files without problem.
However Odroid does not play DSD files well, very distorted.
I heard ES9023 and ES9018K2M BCK requirement are different and this might be the reason why.
We need the dedicated driver for the ES9018K2M.
Also I have tested Sabreberry32_v2031 driver both master and slave mode without success.
“Failed to open audio output”
Sabreberry32 driver targets SABRE9018Q2C I2S DAC.
There may be some difference.
But I don’t know how to install/compil and which file have to be used for that.
I can help for testing on the device but it seems to be very technical and I have to be directed.
I went through the same problems you are having. I replaced my Pi 3 with the Odroid C2 with eMMC and it works great! Although, I now have that same distorted audio on DSD files only. Still need to figure that problem out…
BTW - The Odroid is WAY faster than the Pi at boot up, and everything!
Hi!
1)How about using Odroid c2 with dac board ES9018K2M I2S IIS-32bit 384K /DSD64 128 256 ?
2) ES9018MK2 DAC has not its own clock generator. Need I to use the MCLK of Odroid C2 board?
3) Will this DAC support 24 bit?
I have a MEIZU PRO5 with the same es9018K2M and sound quality is much better on it. I have not tested this board with a good headphone btw but on the speakers i use, the es9023 is on the same level.