Roon sound quality observation

[Dr Tone]

It's what drives me a bit nuts, but I have to agree that so far, in my experience, Roon via AIR to Devialet sounds better than Roon to Squeezebox Touch to Devialet and better than Roon via USB (from a laptop PC) to Devialet.   When I contacted Devialet support about my AIR issues, their response was that using USB to the Devialet should sound as good or better than AIR.  Not my experience but that was just from a laptop USB output.

Unfortunately, I just can't get AIR to work consistently so I've given up on it for now.  I'm hoping that Roon -> uRendu -> Devialet will sound just as good if not better than AIR, but that's just wishful thinking at this point... still waiting to see the Sonore uRendu ship.   If anyone else has found something that sounds better than AIR for streaming, I'd sure like to know.

I think it can be done with a dedicated Windows 10 box and Roonbridge.  A NUC would be perfect but you have to be willing to have that box only do one thing and that is stream to the Devialet.  Of course you have to have ethernet at your Devialet.