RPI HiFi AMP HAT TAS5713 Amplifier Audio Module 25W Class-D Power Sound Card Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi 5 4 3 B+ Pi Zero Nichicon Capacitor

I can't speak to the longevity of this yet but performance wise it's quite good. I bought this to drive a low power in-wall speaker. I also have a hifiberry AMP2 that I am using to drive a pair of bookshelf speakers. As a test, I hooked one speaker up to the AMP2 and the other to this board and couldn't detect much of a difference. I didn't exhaustively compare the audio quality as these aren't being paired up with audiophile grade critical listening speakers, but for typical consumer grade bookshelf speakers and low to medium volume this board performs quite well. I paired this with a raspberry pi zero W running piCorePlayer and got it working in about 5 minutes.

I had accumulated some spare parts here and there and felt like making a little HiFi project. I had a Pi/SD card, 7” touchscreen, speaker wire, and banana plugs/fittings on hand as well as a 12V 3A power supply with a DC barrel plug. This Hat brings a 25W amp, and a decent DAC, so that was all the hardware needed other than speakers.It went together as expected and I decided to try the open source moOde as a streamer solution. This, Volumio, and others are included specifically in the online setup documentation. I 3D printed a simple case to house all this stuff (the back cover is still printing) and am presently listening to it as I write this.

Pi4 connected to name brand 5v supply. Was just getting the pi set up- amp was only connected to the pi. Never applied 12v. Caps blew up while sitting on my desk. Hot garbage. Do not buy!

It works fine once you figure out the correct configuration. I could not get it to work with Raspberry PI 5. Tried a PI 4, and that still had problems until I went back to the Bullseye version of the OS. Things are flaky in Bookworm. Once I installed Bullseye and then added dtoverlay=hifiberry-amp to the /boot/config.txt file, it was identified in raspi-config.Frustrating that I emailed inno-maker twice for help, but never received a response. I'd probably give it a higher rating if the company indicated the required configuration up front.

I'm using this for a Raspberry Pi media player. I'd already purchased a Dayton bluetooth amp which worked well enough, but needed a USB soundcard to get decent sound from the Pi. Unfortunately that solution also required 12V to the amp and 5V to the pi. I wish I would have seen this earlier. The fact that this is the amp, DAC, and powers the Raspberry Pi makes this ridiculously simple to set up. The downloadable install guide has the information you need to set up Volumio and other media players. I have it hooked up to some bare speakers right now until I can build a cabinet, but I'm not hearing any noise. When I first set it up, I picked the wrong HiFiBerry option, but after reviewing the settings and my selection, I was quickly able to get this working.There's information in the docs on eventual IR support, pinouts showing which pins are in use. It's very thorough.

Works as intended. Can be very hard to set up if you're attempting to use it outside reccomended setup. 12v input will run hat and pi at same time. Only needs power source..big plus.

Wow! Super happy with this. Couldnt imagine it driving even heavy bookshelf speakers but it does that and then some!! This thing is amazing. Get the matching acrylic case! Allows you to turn a RPI 2 into one heck of an audio endpoint. Using LMS and running PiCore Player. Absolutely worth every penny and then some!!! Well done!

There are two issues with this amp HAT that made me return it. First, the description is vague regarding how many watts it outputs. The description says 25 watts. I assumed it was 25 watts per channel, but after using it, I'm sure it is only 25 watts total, so 12.5 watts per channel. There is no real reason why this could not have been made clear in the description. Secondly, the headers for attaching the speakers, power supply (if elected) and ground are way too small. I would guess that only wire about 18 AWG would fit in the screw headers, certainly not 14 AWG wire which is a common speaker wire size. Using undersized wire, I did listen to the output and it didn't sound bad, so I give it three stars instead of one.