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Michael Kelly

MOT: Pi 2 Design, Male, 67, from Rhode Island, USA

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No, we are not planning on doing the LITE anymore. We're just gonna stay with the full PI2AES and the mercury series. May 17, 2025

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    1. Michael Kelly
      Michael Kelly
      No, we are not planning on doing the LITE anymore. We're just gonna stay with the full PI2AES and the mercury series.
      May 17, 2025
      1. Ash1412, dasman66, Biodegraded and 3 others like this.
      2. Kernel Kurtz
        Kernel Kurtz
        Your business, your decision. I'm sure you know the sales numbers. That said, just anecdotally, I own 2 Lites, and not sure I would own any otherwise. For people outside the US (I'm in Canada) who have to factor in currency exchange, shipping, GST and now potentially tariffs, the cheaper option was desirable. $300CAD for the LIte is worthwhile. $500CAD for balanced outputs I don't use would price me out.
        May 17, 2025
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      3. Biodegraded
        Biodegraded
        Yeah, I'm the same. I bought an OG Pi2AES when prices were lower, but would find it hard to justify an additional one now. Which, Michael, is not a criticism of your current pricing; you've been transparent about the reasons for the increases in the various threads. But nonetheless I'd be happier if the Lite was still an option :)
        May 17, 2025
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    2. Michael Kelly
      Michael Kelly
      Working on the final prototype of Merc-Mini. We put some screen caps and a block diagram of the website under the coming soon page.
      May 16, 2025
      1. Azimuth, hifiandrun, Brian D and 9 others like this.
      2. Biodegraded
        Biodegraded
        Are you planning to offer any more PiAES Lites?
        May 16, 2025
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    3. Michael Kelly
      Michael Kelly
      Merc-Mini prototype build is underway.
      Dec 28, 2024
      1. Soups, roderickvd, Brian D and 11 others like this.
    4. chrisc
      chrisc
      Good morning
      Apr 12, 2024
      2. Huhnkopf
        Huhnkopf
        Good Morning
        Apr 13, 2024
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        internethandle
        Good morning
        Apr 13, 2024
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      4. RestoredSparda
        RestoredSparda
        Good morning
        Apr 13, 2024
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    5. Michael Kelly
      Michael Kelly
      PI2AES 2.0 design is complete. Getting ready to send parts to the assembly house for 10 protos.
      Feb 15, 2023
      1. Garns, Syzygy, zottel and 23 others like this.
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      3. Michael Kelly
        Michael Kelly
        Changes are mostly around how it’s powered. There’s no longer a wide input voltage to 5 V converter. Instead it can either be powered from the pi or run in split power mode with an external 5V supply. Same as the LITE.
        Feb 15, 2023
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      4. regatron
        regatron
        Do you have a sense of when you will be taking orders?
        Mar 20, 2023
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      5. Michael Kelly
        Michael Kelly
        First proto due here in a couple of weeks. If it passes tests then we will get the first batch of 100 about three weeks later.
        Mar 20, 2023
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    6. Audionumber3
      Audionumber3
      Hey mike. Just posted a possible solution for the i2s connection issue with my Pontus DAC in the dummies guide. Please have a look at it and tell me what you think.

      Thanks!
      May 15, 2022
      2. rhythmdevils
        rhythmdevils
        Please send a pm for stuff like this. This is a public post. Thank you
        May 16, 2022
    7. Josh Schor
      Josh Schor
      Hi Michael,
      Not sure if this is the best place to ask a question. Marv,s son built me a PI2 which Marv then tried to help me get set up. Im an older guy who does not get along to well with computers. We failed and I could not get it to work. Are you making a product that a complete non computer person could get to work? If so point me in the direction on how to get it.
      best,
      Josh
      Jul 8, 2021
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      2. Michael Kelly
        Michael Kelly
        Do you have an idea of what part of it failed? Was it not being able to connect to your home network?

        It is remotely possible there’s something wrong with it. If you want to pack it all up and send it back to us I’ll be more than happy to get it running with whichever software you want to use. But you would still need to be able to connect it to your home network.
        Jul 8, 2021
    8. SoupRKnowva
      SoupRKnowva
      do you know if support for pi hats is planned to be added to the 64bit versions of linux anytime soon? or are we gonna be stuck on armv7 for the foreseeable future?
      Oct 26, 2020
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    9. Michael Kelly
      Michael Kelly
      I own Pi 2 Design where we do Raspberry Pi hats and shields. Lots of digital, but some audio, including tubes. Michael
      Apr 22, 2016
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