Roon supports Devialet AIR

[mdconnelly]

I believe RAAT would allow multiple players to better sync.  Right now, streaming via AIR to my Devialet does not allow me to sync it with any other end-point (unless, of course I had other Devialet as end points which I don't).  But who knows... perhaps Roon has a solution on the horizon for that as well.

By running AIR on my Core machine, it's kind of a cheat that it becomes an RAAT zone (as far as to the driver at least) so can be grouped. The problem is - and I only really discovered this after I sold my rendu - is the AIR driver latency is variable.

So I can get it perfectly in sync, except, after a sample rate change or after an AIR restart, it will be a few ms or more out. So that's a bit annoying to an otherwise perfectly workable solution. I've got surprisingly good at guessing how many ms to adjust (although it is harder to guess the direction), but it's annoying. My wife noticed really quickly when I stopped tweaking it out of laziness - I got a 'why aren't the kitchen and lounge in sync anymore.' The beats in a The XX album were a dead giveaway.

On step forwards, two steps back......

That is the primary reason I kept my uRendu.    But in truth, I usually just use AIR except when I want to sync with other players in the house.    I love that I can, but actually rarely do so.