Orchard Audio PecanPi USB/SPDIF receives Roon Tested Certification

Orchard Audio, the company founded in 2017 by Leo Ayzenshtat, announced that its PecanPi USB/SPDIF has now received Roon Tested certification from Roon Labs. The PecanPi USB/SPDIF is an ultra-high performance DAC and headphone amplifier that works with USB and S/PDIF inputs. This DAC uses the company’s highly reviewed dual monaural Burr-Brown chip design to deliver very impressive performance as well as sonic accuracy.
 
Roon is a rich and engaging way to browse, organize, and listen to music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a rewarding digital magazine experience. Roon is also a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform, it offers features such as bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel support, and Signal Path display.

All Roon Tested devices are profiled by Roon’s QA Team so that Roon can identify them and automatically configure its settings to be optimized for them. This means that users can now just plug the Orchard Audio PecanPi DAC in, and know they will be able to enjoy the best in high performance, including when listening through the built-in headphone amplifier.

The PecanPi USB/SPDIF will bypass the DAC inside a PC, laptop, tablet, or phone that is used to run Roon or any other music player source. The Orchard Audio design is intended to offer greater sound quality when connected directly to a receiver, amplifier, powered speakers, or headphones. The quality of the audio experience is provided by PecanPi's advanced circuitry designed to extract the best possible sound from all digital sources. Twin Burr-Brown DACs are used in a dual differential configuration to cancel out noise and distortion while providing excellent stereo imaging.

While the PecanPi USB/SPDIF is a complete and ready to use system, Orchard Audio also offers the PecanPi DAC board - also Roon Tested - as a stereo DAC solution for the Raspberry Pi and Asus Tinker Board. This is an ideal solution for DIYers and enthusiasts of open source software that want to explore turning their single-board computers into a complete music player.
  
Along with all the sonic benefits the PecanPi USB/SPDIF provides for compressed and CD-quality music files, it also decodes high-resolution data streams with up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution through its USB connection, so users can enjoy high-resolution audio quality from any high-res music source, from physical media and downloaded files to streaming services.
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