Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by leoncvlt on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:30AM (#24966506)

How do I play sounds with this? I see no jack for speakers or headphones. I assume one could have sound over HDMI but monitors with built-in speakers are not very common.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by AlanYx on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:27PM (#24970606)

You can use a USB audio dongle. Just to take one example, the Apple USB-C audio dongle is only $8 and has extremely good measured performance: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by kingosticks on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:06AM (#24968222)

A super-cheap USB soundcard is another option albeit an ugly one. But I do agree it's a shame they couldn't squeeze an audio output into the design somewhere.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by rootbear on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:59AM (#24968764)

I noticed that. Audio has to come from the HDMI connection or from Bluetooth, either of which will produce better sound than the standard Pi audio jack. I imagine they see this being used with a TV, much like the old classic 8-bit consoles.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by nobodyshere on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:32AM (#24966521)

Monitors with 3.5mm outputs however are not that rare.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by teekert on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:30AM (#24966511)

RPi4 has BT.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by cardiffspaceman on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:06PM (#24976182)

There are Bluetooth "DACs" that have tube-based amplifiers so you can really go nuts with a DAC that costs like 5 times the cost of the RPi 400.

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