Audio DAC Hat Sound Card (Audio+V3) for Raspberry PI5 / PI4 / Pi Zero / PI3 / PI3B / PI3B+ / Better Quality Than USB

The RaspiAudio Audio DAC Hat is a good choice if you’re looking to add mic and audio in small package to your Raspberry Pi projects. I used it to make a voice assistant with my Raspberry Pi 3, and it worked pretty well overall.Getting it set up was fairly easy their website had directions for installing the drivers using the command line.The speaker quality is just okay, but I wasn’t expecting much from it.The mic quality is pretty good. It picks up voice clearly and works perfectly for voice commands, which is what I needed it for.All in all, it’s a nice little addition for Raspberry Pi projects if you’re not super picky about sound quality. Works great for functional stuff like voice assistants.Rating: 4/5

Driver support was easy and the hat sounds great. Additional benefit of powering the pi 3b+ using usb-c. 100w brick powering it all and loud with 60w speakers. Works great. A little wonky in size when using with a non-zero pi, but it all talks nice to the pi. Updated usb port is really nice.

Seemed straight forward, but it is not for RPI Zero 2W, or for many RPI OS versions on it.The install steps don't exist and are referred to use waveShare's Hat install that errors out.The methods RASPIAUDIO offers are buggy and have workarounds and are referred to WaveShare?So just buy WaveShare version? IDK Unit likely works but I can't get it to work on RPI OS.DEV and discussions ended about year 2020 on their sites.Testing with a clean new image setup several times just for this HAT on RPZ2W and it does not work.If it works on RP4+ then I will not return it. So much wasted time :(

Works great, but the placement of the RCA jacks are a little inconvenient for plugging directly into the GPIO pins, so I use a ribbon cable to mount them apart.

I built a second Volumio-based player/streamer with a 7" touchscreen and used this DAC for simplicity. Although I'm an audio snob, I did not want to spend $$ on a Pi2AES for a backyard system, nor have I found a good I2S hat with optical output. I haven't soldered the RCA connectors on, as the 3.5mm output works great going into an AVR. After setting Volumio to output to 'raspiaudio' via I2S, the hat was recognized immediately and sounds just fine for these purposes. I'll buy another the next time I make another streamer.

Easy enough to solder on the headers. The website information is good to get the software installed. Worked the first time. The board is actually different than the one in the photos - looks like some breakout holes have been added to allow access to some of the GPIO pins that the headers might cover up. I walked through their instructions and it worked immediately. I had plans to solder up my own voltage converter and make my own board but this was a real time saver. The website has a place to sign up for a newsletter and get a discount code so, check that out before you buy. I might get another one because these RPi zeros are so functional.

So you can't go wrong trying this out for just $15. I had an old logitech squeezebox go bad and needed a replacement. I already run 3 other picore players, but wanted something in this location that could try running two instances of squeezelite on one pi. So I needed two ways to get quality audio out and this fit the bill.Soldered it up in no time, and just selected "Hifiberry DAC +Light" in picore player and didn't even have to run the script they ask you to run. The first attempt of a different Hifiberry setting failed to load, but I found that by looking in /var/log/ on the pi.Audio sounds great. I can't tell any difference. I use these with Topping TP21 and TP30. The 30 has a usb direct input from the pi, but since I already had the TP21 I needed this RCA output as well for the second instance of squeezelite running on the same pi.Love it!

This is a neat little device! Easy to chop the mic off and extend it with the provided cable. Additionally, don't let the video on raspiaudio.com fool you, the microphone is actually pretty high quality. He's recording in the video with default settings on arecord which is unsigned 8 bit.Try recording with arecord -f S16_LE -d10 -r44100 myrecording.wav for signed 16 bit little endian 44.1 kHz audio (CD quality).The speakers are fine too! Was easily able to hook up two 5 watt 8 ohm speakers no problem. I do wish there was a barebones version of this board however without the button, LED, and onboard speakers, ie just the mic and audio out