ROON ROCK now available

[brit]

Now that there is ROON/AIR integration, I finally bit the bullet and installed ROCK onto an Intel NUC6i5SYH I had purchased a few months ago in anticipation. Despite initial fear and trepidation (playing with software and computers is not my forte) I installed the BIOS update and the ROCK software, both of which had been previously downloaded to USB drives, without any problem, loaded the missing CODEC to the CODEC folder on ROCK. Backed up my database, and then de-authorised ROON on my Windows 10 PC, established connection to ROCK having first restored the database. attached my USB Music Library drive to the NUC and selected it in ROON settings > storage, lit the blue touch paper, and retired to a safe distance having selected My Devialet-ETH as the playing zone, and blow me down, music actually played .

To say that I was  astounded would be an understatement, but I am very pleased with the result . I am running headless and using Roon Remote controls installed on a Samsung Tab S and Apple iPad mini 4, both of which re-connected with ROCK with no problem. This now means that I can leave ROCK running full time without needing my main PC running. It also means that ROON is not now subject to possible disruption from future Windows 10 updates. 

I have a few more things to play with, such as transferring my music library to the internal 2Tb HDD I have installed in the NUC, and sorting out where I make future back-ups, but I am, at present, just more than content to have a more prolonged listening session. My initial listening indicates that SQ has not suffered at all and in fact may have improved, but I am the worlds worst at trying to justify improvements in SQ and, moreover, think that it is a mugs game anyway .


David