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Raspberry pi B+ and volumio

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We spent Christmas with my parents and wanting to take some xmas music along, I decided to give volumio a go to setup a mobile/tablet/pc controlled music player with a raspberry pi.

Picture of the set-up

Equipment

  • B+W Zeplin speaker dock (using the 3.5mm input)
  • Raspberry Pi model B+
  • music files located on Lexar usb stick in .flac format
  • SD card with the Volumio OS installed – download from here: http://volumio.org/
  • USB extension cable with cheap USB soundcard attached (extension cable as sound card is too bulky to fit next to the usb stick) – £2 or so from eBay
  • USB Wi-fi stick – digitazz
  • power supply for pi

The new B+ pi has an additional 2 USB ports, better power management and cable connections on only two sides.  Great for volumio as I needed 3 USBs (soundcard, music and wi-fi).

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Workshop Sounds – Lepai Amplifier

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Lepai/Lvpin Tripath Amplifer

I had been looking for an amplifier for the workshop for a while and read about these small and cheap amplifiers on the DIYAudio forum [link to diy audio posts]. The posts suggested that although cheaply made the amps sound great and are very easy to mod.  So order placed and £19.99 later it arrived. My new version can badged as Lvpin, the new name for Lepai (apparently meaning “dependable product” in Mandarin”). I ordered one without a PSU, I happened to have an external hard drive PSU offering 12v DC 2 Amps output so I hooked that up first to check how this budget amp would fare.

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