totaldac D1 server

[GuillaumeB]

….To me this is very encouraging!

Although its a shame Roon wasn't equal or better, bearing in mind that its brand new and was designed with SQ as a priority (among other things).

I wonder what is down to RAAT and what is down to its implementation.  I'm assuming the current totaldac implementation (of whatever MPD runs) has had years of tweaks and optimisations, whereas since RAAT is new it hasn't had this luxury - perhaps its still got scope for being improved?  I'm guessing also that RAAT will evolve too.

But still, I was hoping for RAAT to be heralded as 'the best'.  Will keep watching this space.

I'm sure they'll let you have another trail Guillaume, especially since 1.2 has just come out and it includes RoonReady support for your totaldac.
I personally wouldn't want my core to be wireless, but…..

I probably didn't explain that well, what he said was that between MPD and RoonReady on the d1 server it was very very close and some will prefer one over the other, in fact for many the choice won't be based on SQ at all... In my books that's a pretty big thumbs up to RoonReady from the maker of the d1 server.

I'm sure it will be improved, this is the first version after all (actually there have been a couple of betas which I didn't try).

Re the core being wireless some of the logic behind this is effective de-coupling of the PC (running the core) from the mains and wired Ethernet network, in addition to this the Surface Pro doubles up as your control point. I am going to at least test the concept first with my MacBook AIR. 

Guillaume