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IDM wrote:Hi Nick,

When I connect the scope to the LRCK it doesn't even trip the timebase so there appears to be just no signal.

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I bit the bullet and purchased a knew pi. I checked the BCK, Data and LRCK. All the signals were present. So I plucked up my courage and soldered the wires and plugged into my TDA1541A and to my absolute delight it works!

I have all the web radio stations and on initial listening sounds pretty good.

I am so pleased, this has been very painful.

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good news though for us all that is. Your pain helps others.
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I should also add that I re-downloaded Volumio 1.1 from the website and when I checked out the /etc/modules/ file the data is now correct and did not need to be edited. I simply downloaded the file unzipped it, flashed it to SD, configured the wireless network from the GUI and swithched on the I2S from the GUI and it worked.

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Resurrecting an old thread, Ian how did you connect (IE what pins) did you use to connect the I2S interface? I would like to give this a try on my Arcam TDA1541A board...

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Which RPi version do you have Neal?
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Hi,

I did all my configuration using a rapberry pi B+ and the details of the pins are shown in the lik below:

https://volumio.org/forum/hifiberry-and ... t-t29.html

If you scroll down you will see a picture or the P5 header identifying which pin does what. As I am sure you know you need the Data, Bck, LRCK and Gnd. Mck is not required for TDA2541A DAC (which is lucky because as far as I kow the raspberry Pi does not provide MCK!).

If you are using a rapsberry pi2 the output is different as it doesn't have a p5 header. I have just bought a pi2 to play with but havent got as far as using it to drive a DAC so dont know the pins offhand.

Hope that helps.

By the way if you get it to work I think you should be pleased with the sound. People talk about jitter with the pi and whilst I am sure that may be true, all I can say is that the pi blew away my previous CD transport.

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Hi,

I did all my configuration using a rapberry pi B+ and the details of the pins are shown in the lik below:

https://volumio.org/forum/hifiberry-and ... t-t29.html

If you scroll down you will see a picture or the P5 header identifying which pin does what. As I am sure you know you need the Data, Bck, LRCK and Gnd. Mck is not required for TDA2541A DAC (which is lucky because as far as I kow the raspberry Pi does not provide MCK!).

If you are using a rapsberry pi2 the output is different as it doesn't have a p5 header. I have just bought a pi2 to play with but havent got as far as using it to drive a DAC so dont know the pins offhand.

Hope that helps.

By the way if you get it to work I think you should be pleased with the sound. People talk about jitter with the pi and whilst I am sure that may be true, all I can say is that the pi blew away my previous CD transport.

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Ooh, that got posted twice, I wonder why!!

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Thanks Ian, found your thread on the volumio site. I've got an RPi2, I've found the pins and a diagram on Google, will link to it when back on the laptop and not the tablet....

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QzzWKWacbRA/V ... 531;デム.png

Pins 12, 35 and 40
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That's interesting Ray, the BBB would appear to have a better clock implementation for audio. Lots of good reports on the RPi sound quality though...will have to hook up my TDA1541 and see how it goes...
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The new Pi 2 is a lot better - its the same price but with 6 x the performance - 4 vs. 1 core and each core is later version and running at 900MHz vs 700MHz of the Pi B & B+ models.

Clocking is improved, as are the on-board PSUs.
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Neal wrote:That's interesting Ray, the BBB would appear to have a better clock implementation for audio. Lots of good reports on the RPi sound quality though...will have to hook up my TDA1541 and see how it goes...
Watching with interest. :D

I have a TDA1541 waiting for something like this. :wink:
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I've connected up the RPi using the header on the Arcam board where previously I had the I2S o/p from a CS8412 connected which works fine but I'm getting nothing out of the DAC when using the RPi.

I'm pretty sure I've got the correct pin combination:

RPi pin 35 to pin 1 TDA (LRCK) marked WS on the Arcam Board
RPi pin 12 to pin 2 TDA (BCK) marked CK on the Arcam Board
RPi pin 40 to pin 3 TDA (DATA) marked DATA on the Arcam Board

I'm using Volumio v1.55 and have enabled I2S but there are a number of DAC choices, is there a specific setting for the TDA1541A or do I have to edit the config file in Linux?
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