I recently bought the PI 2 B along with the HIFi Berry Dac and the IQ audIO Dac, the reason being one of the people who lives in the house wanted something that sounded better than her computer feeding a couple of rather nasty PC separate speakers.
Anyway, what I put together for her for under 500 euros was the PI, IQ Dac and a pair of Yamaha HS7s plus all cables. I’m fairly well acquainted with what can be achieved with a well thought out file based system and active speakers but I must admit, I was pretty impressed with the end result.
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon/eek.gif)
Anyway, having heard the above in my room, I bought a PI 2 and IQ dac for myself. I now had two Dacs (berry and IQ to play with)
![Shifty :shifty:](./images/smilies/eusa/shifty.gif)
My music server has three separate power supplies built in and I thought I would see if I could hear any difference using the 5V 2Amp supply from the server to the PI. I must be losing my marbles,
![Confused :-?](./images/smilies/icon/confused.gif)
![Doh! :doh:](./images/smilies/eusa/doh.gif)
I’m rather busy atm building a house so I would be interested in seeing what Richard comes up with for a PSU and what difference if any it makes to the sound and of course, how much it costs.
Oh arr, don’t piss about with USB plugs and sockets, change them all to 5 pin XLR or solder direct.
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon/wink.gif)