MNCast - Homeassistant

Hi, I bought an MNCast in addition to the RaspiRadio I have. Want to obviously integrate this one into home assistant for use with music assistant, would you recommend to go for the ESPHOME firmware or to use the Squeezelite in combination with an LMS server?

If you are using the MN cast only for music I recommend Squeezelite as I have the feeling (can’t explain ti) that the sound quality is better.

Thanks i initially had the same feeling with the radio but recent updates showed a remarkable improvement.

Do you sense the same difference when using spdif output? The dac is not doing anything in that case right?

correct with spdif the Mn Cast DAC is not doing anything, so this is just relying the other system used to convert that signal into sound