I’ve a Raspiaudio Audio+ dac and so far I was very happy with its performance. I usually connect it through line in (mini jack to mini jack) to an old stero speaker.
But I’ve tried to connect it from minijack to a phono entry in a home media center the bass are to high and I’m finding a lot of difficulties on having an equalizer work.
My installation is pretty plain, raspbian + the steps on the AUDIO+ installation + raspotify to stream from my mobile.
I’ve followed the steps described in here to install amixer equalizer plugin
Thank you, based on your entry I was able to see the real deal here… i
Specific applications
The equalization works only when the application uses the default output device from asound.conf. Applications that are configured to use the hardware device directly (you might see “hw:0” or similar in the command line options or in the configuration file) won’t use the equalization plugin.
so it’s not only about the .conf file but also the app needs to send the audio throught the equalizer as stated in the hifiberry. In my case, and just for the shake if anyone elses is in the same situation, for raspotify adding this to the /etc/default/raspotify does the trick: