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[David A]

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If the  Devialet itself could become a roon core then game over... they kill the market for good and the rest of the source/streamer/dac/pre-amp/amp/cable industry mostly goes bankrupt.

Why should the Devialet  become a Roon Core? According to Roon themselves, you get best sound quality when the Core (server) software and the renderer software are running on different devices. Whether we're using the AIR protocol with Roon as at present, or RAAT when the CI amps become Roon Ready, the Devialet is a renderer so we should get best results running Roon Core on a different device.

In addition Roon Core can do a lot of processing, especially if you're using the Roon DSP engine. The Devialet's processor also does a fair bit of DSP processing with things like SAM and tone controls. The current processor on the CI board may well not be capable off handling the DSP functions for Roon plus the Devialet DSP functions so that means needing to get a processor upgrade and new software. Considering the last 6 months of mucking around with the CI board rollout and the software program associated with that, how many of us CI owners would look forward eagerly to going through another hardware and software upgrade program to make our amps capable of doing Roon Core functions as well as what they are currently doing? Not many, and I suspect that not a lot of non-CI owners are going to rush to that upgrade after hearing of all the issues that CI owners have gone through with the current upgrade program, especially to end up with a 1 device solution for Roon that Roon themselves say is less than ideal.

I use Roon and I don't want to give it up, and I have a 130 with the CI board. I use an Antipodes server running Roon Core and I want to keep things that way. Making the Devialet a Roon Core as well as renderer is not the best way to go to get the best results from Roon according to Roon themselves and I have no reason to doubt them on that.

As for such a change being earth shattering for the industry as a whole, forget that. It would not happen. People opt for different sorts of setup for a lot of reasons and Devialet's approach and models don't suit many people. There's always going to be a wide range of options for people to choose between simply because of the widely differing end results a lot of different people are chasing..