The iPod touch specs are slightly better than an iPhone, and some old classic models were even better.
couldn’t find the hifiberry specs sheet to compare. I imagine it’s not necessarily worse, but wondering is the whole setup worth the trouble?
The benefits of going the hifiberry route are:
- You connect from any device on your network and tell the pi to stream - either from a local NAS or from a hq streaming service like tidal
- It can pull and faithfully process 24/96 master streams and MQA
- You don't need to use a user interface on the device itself or load files onto it
- Bit of hobbyist fun
For anyone looking for an alternative to Hifi berry that still uses a pi:
USB Dac (eg. from schiit, or toppings). You can get great ones for $100 or drool-worthy ones for thousands... the input is digital so (with some exceptions) they all work well with a cheap pi connected to internet.