totaldac D1 server

[GuillaumeB]

I recently read this...

http://www.homecinema-fr.com/forum/sourc...-3195.html

It's in French so I will summarise. Essentially Vincent at totaldac has carried out some critical listening of ROON and compared it to MPD, which as some of you know is the preferred method for SQ (and superb it is too!). Whilst there are some differences SQ-wise, these differences are very small indeed. Obviously everything was optimised - so LPS on NAS, switch, PC and decent cabling throughout. Actually he compared ROON via the network to ROON via USB (so connecting a PC directly to the d1 reclocker via USB) and finds ROON streamed over the network using the new RoonReady functionality in the d1 server massively better and very, very close to MPD. To me this is very encouraging!

I have been corresponding with Vincent and I am considering running ROON core on a Surface Pro 4 (or similar Windows tablet), so this would also double up as my control point. I will experiment first using my MacBook AIR to check that my wifi network can handle it and that I am obviously happy with the experience. One issue is that my ROON free trial is long over so I will also need to see if they can let me have another one.

Guillaume