Wolfson Pi Audio Card for Raspberry Pi
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Wolfson Pi Audio Card for Raspberry Pi

3.2/5
Product ID: 1212007
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🎧24-bit HD Audio
📡S/PDIF input/output
🔊192kHz output
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🎶 Elevate Your Audio Game!

  • COMPACT POWERHOUSE - Designed exclusively for Raspberry Pi, maximizing your audio experience in a small footprint.
  • UNLEASH YOUR SOUND - Experience audio like never before with 24-bit, 192kHz rendering.
  • GAMING VO IP READY - Elevate your gaming and communication with dedicated headphone and line inputs.
  • PERFECT FOR CREATORS - Ideal for high-quality audio capture and streaming, making it a must-have for digital creators.
  • VERSATILE CONNECTIVITY - Seamlessly connect to smartphones, speakers, and more with 3.5mm and S/PDIF options.

The Wolfson Pi Audio Card is a high-quality audio solution tailored for Raspberry Pi, featuring 24-bit, 192kHz HD audio rendering, versatile connectivity options including 3.5mm and S/PDIF, and dedicated headphone support, making it perfect for gaming, VoIP, and high-quality audio capture.

Reviews

3.2

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T**S

Yowza

Sounds great. Not easy to setup if you aren't willing to really dig in.Only disappointment is no optical out, and the stereo I bought right after this does not have coax spdif in, but that's not the wolfsons fault. Just a fact..

H**D

No drivers available.

Even though it seems to be touted for use with the RPI, when I bought mine in June 2014, there were not drivers for it.

D**R

Works well but drivers not yet in the kernel

Product works well (sound quality quite nice) but drivers aren't in the mainline kernel so using this freezes your kernel and system versions. Expansion headers have no documentation and support. You will not have access to your I2C expansion ports. You might get access to your UART port via the J8 expansion header but don't count on it.

T**Z

Driver support is abysmal

They promised to get the drivers included in the raspbian build months ago. There has been little visible effort or support on this front. This card is not useful if I have to use their custom build for everything. I would stay away until they prove themselves.

M**B

Great sound, requires a bit of setup

This card is easy to mount and has great sounding audio. It does require a bit of setup since it uses a custom kernel. Wolfson and element14 do supply their own image, but I didn't want to lose my entire setup. (Also, element14's download speeds were horrible for a 4.4GB file).There is a helpful document at ( [...] ) which discusses how to compile your own kernel. NOTE: The last command in step 8 should read "git am -3 /home/pi/rpi_wlf_3.10_beta/*.patch". The make command in step 9 took six hours for me (No O.C.).When changing the Input/Output source with Wolfson's "use cases", I need to sudo them everytime and then I must run any program using sound as root. I'm not sure if this is also the case with Wolfson's image.Overall it took me about a day to setup and get working, but I'm very pleased with the results.

W**E

Good but drivers are limited

A good sound card, but the driver choices are very limited. Basically the only way to make this work is to use the special spin that Wolfson has created. If that spin won't work for you, then you are out of luck. If the drivers were usable on all spins, then this would get five stars.I use this on a Raspberry Pi model B running mpd (music player daemon). It plays music tracks in wav format - FLAC (96 khz/24 bit) and various Vorbis (OGG) formats. The high bit-rate FLAC files stuttered a bit until I configured mpd and ALSA to NOT resample.

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Neha S.

Excellent communication throughout the order process. Product is perfect.

2 weeks ago

Anjali K.

The product quality is outstanding. Exactly what I needed for my work.

1 month ago

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Ayesha M.

The product exactly matches the description. Very satisfied with my purchase.

5 days ago

Reema J.

Perfect platform for hard-to-find items. Delivery was prompt.

1 month ago

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