RAAT for Phantoms

[Soniclife]

RAAT to both speakers is how Dutch and Dutch are going to make their speakers roon ready, but it seems to be taking them a long time to get it to work.

The 6moons review of the 8C only showed a preliminary version of RAAT, but when Dutch and Dutch releases  RAAT one speaker will receive the full signal and will be the 'master' (and master clock) and will pass on the other channel (in a stereo signal) to the other speaker via the AES/EBU link between the two.

Have they changed the design, last year they said the following...

"The implementation of Roon in the 8c's has taken a lot longer than we originally expected. The implementation of the Roon SDK was quite straightforward and done within a week, but the difficultly lies in the fact that Roon does not guarantee perfect audio sync between different endpoints. That is usually - for instance within a multiroom system - not much of a problem, because small differences in latency aren't really audible. In a stereo system it messes up the stereo-image. Even a difference in latency of a couple of samples can pull a center image away from dead center. We've now achieved a perfect sync between the two speakers in a stereo system."

That was 7 months ago mind, so as it's still not out I do wonder.