Upsampling in Roon 1.3

[Hifi_swlon]

RoonReady is a Roon term, for hardware certified and tested with Roon and RAAT, rather than a generic term for supporting anything relating to Roon..... If there was enough pressure maybe they'd add NAA, but possibly not bearing in mind the price of the Vivaldi upsampler...

Have you tried your rendu in NAA mode? There are definitely a contingent that say it sounds better than running it in Roon mode. I honestly couldn't detect a difference when I tried. But HQPlayer just isn't for me really - I wanted to hear a positive difference, but just got frustrated trying various settings, all of which largely sounded the same in my setup. I also don't like the extra delay.

I'm think that dCS might consider HQPlayer a rival, rather than something nice and cuddly that they would want to accommodate.  So I somehow doubt NAA protocol will be supported anytime soon.  You never know though, I'm sure they could do it if they wanted to.

No, I have not tried the microRendu in NAA mode.  I do plan to try the 30 day trial of HQPlayer (Windows is 30 day, Mac trial version is restricted to 30 minutes running).  However, in order to try everything I would want to try during the 30 day trial, I need to wait until the Linux mR patch for native DSD to the Mutec is sorted out.  Sonore are looking at this, all I need to do is patiently wait.......

I think the 30 min limit was probably why I gave up thinking back, it was pretty annoying. Bit of a difference 30 days vs 30 minutes! Ok, I know you can restart but it's hardly relaxing having to keep restarting HQPlayer, especially over vnc.

I still don't follow the logic of upsampling only to downsample to pcm in the Mutec, but I'm curious to hear about it.

I've been using max 2x rate pcm in Roon for a week, which doesn't tax my Mac and certainly doesn't seem worse. I'll turn it off soon and see if I miss anything. Which is doubtful as I just don't think I can detect these nuances. I do hear other changes like EQ and speaker placement, but not this.