The RPI can do great audio out of the box without USB, just don&#x27;t use the 3.5mm jack. Instead, remember that HDMI does uncompressed bitstream audio!<p>You can connect the RPI to a dac&#x2F;amp with HDMI input or a digital audio extractor. The best quality will be found by connecting to an HDMI to SPDIF extractor and then running that into a good quality DAC.<p>The nice thing about this solution is that you&#x27;re not dependent on the horrible and CPU-sucking USB offered by the RPI.