21-Jun-2015, 15:20
(21-Jun-2015, 09:01)completeluxury Wrote: im all over tidal already.
ive been reading over the roon forums and im pretty confused by their recommended practices in regards to servers and remotes.
from what i can gather they use a core server program which is where the music is stored and possibly the internet streaming is done from. that then goes to the remote pc which processes the sound or something and connects to the dac.
it sounds like a jplay dual pc setup to me. do you need to use 2 different computers or is the one ok because i dont quite feel like changing my setup from what ive got now!
To be honest, I'm not very sure myself on this server (Core) and remote stuffs. Running using just the Core is fine. If your PC/Mac running the core, your system audio output, AirPlay, Devialet USB and AIR can all be the global audio output. Which means, any remote can direct the audio output via the global audio output. And yes, Core manages and indexes all music library including Tidal. If you have Tidal subscription, you can select your Collection of music genres and Roon will include them into your Album library.
As for the benefit of Remote, one can use an Android tablet or Win8 tablet and be free from your desktop for songs selection and play. Everything the Core shows will be displayed on your Remote. Now come to the benefit of using local (and private) audio output on your Remote, this becomes scratchy. I'm not sure of the full benefit of using Remote to output to a private local audio output. If AIR is working flawlessly, maybe using a Win tablet can run Fidelizer and/or JPlay and AIR stream to your Devialet. I've yet to fully do any serious testing of the SQ benefit using such method.
Before: Le200, KEF LS50, AQ Type4, NUC 5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, Win8.1/AIR2.1.3/RoonBridge, MM/AIR3/RoonBridge, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS, AQ NRG-X3
Now: KEF LS50W, NUC5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS,iFi iSilencer3.0+DC iPurifier+iPurifier2, Sonos ZP80+SPDIF iPurifier
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Now: KEF LS50W, NUC5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS,iFi iSilencer3.0+DC iPurifier+iPurifier2, Sonos ZP80+SPDIF iPurifier
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia