Hello,
I have bought a Vero V.
I would like to use my Vero together with a headphone amplifier (Topping dx3 pro+).
What is the best way to connect these two devices in order to have a lossless sound quality?
Does Vero support the blutetooth standards LDAC or APTX?
Thank you in advance for your advice.
Thank you very much!
Best regards
David
AfaIk, your device has a USB port. Simply connect it as a USB DAC device via an USB 2.0 cable. It should appear in the mediacenter at settings -> system -> audio -> audio output device.
Currently I’m using for tests
Works like a charm.
@JimKnopf
Thank you very much! That’s already very promising. 
if I want to connect the DAC to Bluetooth , can the Vero V also do aptX or LDAC (lossless HD transmission)?
OSMC uses bluez-alsa to support BT audio. We build this with only those codecs that are free to distribute which does not include aptX or LDAC. See here.
If you are comfortable with compiling linux apps then follow the excellent instructions in the bluez-alsa wiki to roll your own. Let us know how you get on because it’s been a long time since we’ve updated our bluez-alsa build.
I just remembered, we do give some guidance on how to add codecs here.
@JimKnopf has pointed out that the LDAC encoder does not need a licence. I’ve built bluez-alsa with LDAC but I can’t test it so can you get the file from here, copy it to vero and
sudo dpkg -i armv7-bluezalsa-osmc.deb
sudo systemctl restart mediacenter
to give it a test. I don’t know if it will default to LDAC. I couldn’t immediately see on the bluez-alsa wiki how codecs are chosen.
@grahamh
Thank you very much, I will try it out!
Is it possible to see somewhere in osmc/Kodi which codec is currently being used to transmit audio via Bluetooth?
If that works, that would be a great and easy feature for an upcoming OSMC release, wouldn’t it?
Edit: The download link to the deb file doesn’t seem to work.
I don’t know why that would be. The link should work for anyone with that URL. What happens when you click it? For me it opens a page with a Download button. Or you could try this https://collab.osmc.tv/index.php/s/E6WqQRrBQ8MjpsG/download/armv7-bluezalsa-osmc.deb
It might be possible to report the codec being used in Kodi. Not sure where would be the best place to show it. Any suggestions?