Pirate Audio: 3W Stereo Speaker Amp for Raspberry Pi

SKU: ADA4453 Brand: Adafruit

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Bring your speaker set into the 21st century with Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp for Raspberry Pi! Get punchy digital audio through the push-fit terminals and control your music with the built-in color LCD and squishy playback control buttons.

The push-fit connectors on Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp make it super-simple to connect up a set of speakers, whether they're bookshelf or floor-standing speakers, or the speakers in an old radio. Play crisp digital audio from local files (MP3, FLAC, etc.) or stream from services like Spotify. The combined DAC and amp gives you crisp 24-bit / 192KHz digital audio through your connected stereo speakers (or mixed-down mono through a single channel).

Adafruit stock a few options of 3W 4 ohm speakers that you can use to plug into this amplifier.

Pirate Audio is a range of all-in-one audio boards for Raspberry Pi, with high-quality digital audio, beautifully-crisp IPS displays for album art, tactile buttons for playback control, and the custom Pirate Audio software and installer to make setting it all up a breeze. No soldering required, just plug it right in to make fun audio projects come to life.

Features:

MAX98357A DAC / amplifier chip x2 (datasheet)
Stereo 3W (per channel) audio out
Push-fit speaker terminals
Switch for stereo / mixed-down mono modes
1.3" IPS color LCD (240x240px) (ST7789 driver)
Four tactile buttons
Mini HAT-format board
Fully-assembled
Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
Pirate Audio software
Dimensions: 65 x 30.5 x 9.5mm

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