No more dropouts streaming Roon RAAT over gigabit ethernet

[David A]

That must explain why I never had an issue as I have been using ROON ROCK on an Intel NUC for several years now. How odd, eh? Glad it is finally working for you @mdconnelly !

Sure wish I had realized this way back when.    But this does raise an interesting question.... does this now make it a problem with Roon on Windows or is it still uniquely a Devialet problem?   I will say that I only experienced dropouts from Roon on Win10 to my Expert Pro.  Never to other endpoints in my home.   

Is there anyone out there using Windows on a NUC streaming hi-res music over gigabit ethernet to their Expert Pros via RAAT?    If so, do you get the occasional dropouts/stuttering?

My understanding is that there is only one "flavour" of RAAT, in other words Roon sends the same identical signal to all Roon Ready end points. It is up to the end point to handle that input signal properly which is what the Roon Ready certification process is designed to ensure. If you can stream successfully to other endpoints from Roon on a Win 10 machine then the problem isn't with Roon because a problem in Roon would affect all endpoints. It's probably not a problem with Win 10 because you would expect that to cause problems with at least some other devices down stream as well, and the same applies to the possibility of it being a router or other network hardware issue. If the problem is somewhere between Roon and the endpoint then you would expect that more than one endpoint would be susceptible to it. If the problem occurs for only one endpoint, and here I'm talking about not only for a single user but with that specific endpoint for all users, then I think that's a pretty clear indication that the problem is something to do with that endpoint.

Take a look at the Roon forums. Roon users are running Roon on Windows, Macs, and Linux boxes and on some NAS drives. They're using a variety of network peripherals and you have people using those peripherals with different computers/NAS drives. You've got them using RAAT with a large number of different endpoints from different manufacturers. The only users reporting the "audio file loading slowly" problem with the symptoms that affected us Devialet users were Devialet users. If the problem was located somewhere other than in the Devialet, then at least some other users than Devialet users should have been experiencing it. If, for example, it had something to do with Windows, then at least some other Windows users than those with Devialet's should have reported experiencing it. There don't appear to be any such reports.

Logically, if this issue only affects those with Devialets then the problem has to be a Devialet problem.