'RoonReady' not coming to Devialet….

[Hifi_swlon]

I got answers from Auralic which don´t make me optimistic.

The problem for Auralic is, that they have to make a difference between the expensive highend Aries femto (1750 €) and LE streamers and the Mini (500 €) to justify the big price gap.

So an other option is to sell the Mini and buy an Aries femto... This would be much more expensive than buying an Apple Mini.

If you were thinking along those lines midi, and you just wanted a RoonReady device to connect via USB, I would seriously consider the sonicorbiterSE. Haven't heard one but by all accounts the Sonore guys have a specialist OS running a very minimalist system designed for audio, and first impressions of it are really good.

I assume you already have a computer running the roonserver, so i think you'd better SQ using something optimised for audio rather than a Mac mini. That said I doubt the orbiter has optical out.

A mini will always be a useful computer if you're a Mac household and the resell is good - I bought mine second hand at slightly reduced price, and put an SSD in and it's great, but it wasn't as good as the Aurender I tried and I sure most is down to it being a generic computer. Ithink Amazon often have the  older model (I have,can't remember year) you can upgrade at a decent price.

I'm not sure you can have both toslink and USB audio device plugged in together and be able to output via either - someone here will probably know though.

What did Auralic say? I know a lot of people are waiting for mini compatibility, but I suppose like you say it is the entry-level model so maybe they decided not to put everything on it. Fair enough I suppose as it is a DAc as well, so still a bargain piece of kit.

(Apologies for typos - bl***y iPad)