I'm sure the DigiOne Signature would be an improvement, especially now that they've working out that LiFePO4 batteries to power the Signature board gives a more balanced sound. I kept my fanless PC and have been using as a NAS for USBridge and Pi. If you have a suitable Windows machine I suggest you give the free trial of JPLAY FEMTO a go. JPLAY FEMTO exceeds what my relatively high end record deck can do. I've found with digital that getting soundstage to rival my analogue setup had been a long journey but the Pi and USBridge just about got there (with suitable power supplies). The area between the speakers is much better controlled with instrument placement being superb. The big win however is soundstaging, it's significantly improved. So what did I find? Two things struck me the sound was simply "more refined" when I made a direct comparison with Volumio. There are of course some tweaks to improve the sound (DAC Link being the key one I've found so far). It was, it took about 10 mins, it's running on my fanless media server. I must admit that I didn't really want to return to where I started but it seemed the install of JPLAY FEMTO would be pretty simple. The software is available at / for download of a 3 week fully functional trial. JPLAY FEMTO supports files playback, Tidal and Qobuz, radio stations but NOT Spotify. I'm using BubbleUPnP on Android, this gives me a good interface to my library with album art.
The latest version of JPLAY (still only for Windows) is called JPLAY FEMTO, it can be controlled from Android or iOS. OK, so what's happened now? I received some emails from the JPLAY guys. Over the last couple of years I've been using Volumio on the Allo USBridge and Pi with good digital cards (DigiOne currently). I used Bughead on its own and at some point before I also used MQN as well as some Linux players too. Some people then allied the tough to use Bughead with JPLAY. Jriver then prevented JPLAY working with it. At that time it was very tweaky and had a lousy method to play music unless you incorporated Jriver. My first foray into specialist file renderers (after Foobar) several years ago was with JPLAY.
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