dCS Network Bridge

[MightyMart]

Sorry for my late reply (on paternity leave with my 7 month old son who is keeping me busy and/or tired all day) but here it is:

I’ve been using ROON now for about a week and it’s a real treat! Just the user interface itself is almost enough to justify the extra cost. It has also proven (knock on wood...) to be very stable and reliable.

I have the dCS network bridge hooked up with Ethernet wire to my ASUS-router, the ROON core is on a Sony VAIO laptop (older but one of their top notch models) that communicates wirelessly with the router. Control is done from the ROON app installed on an iPad Mini and I play music mainly from TIDAL but also from a hard drive. The network bridge is plugged into the Devialet with a Wireworld Gold Starlight 7 AES/EBU digital cable and it all works and SOUNDS beautifully!

So far the network bridge, together with the TORUS and the speaker feet from Harmonix, have for me been the best investments apart from the amps and speakers themselves. No power, signal or speaker cable have come even remotely close in comparison.

The dCS Network Bridge is so good I have already plans for (eventually) swapping the bridge and my Marantz for a dCS Rossini Player. The Rossini have both a streamer with ROON support and a CD-transport integrated. That would be the perfect match with a Devialet since it only has one AES/EBU input. This input is far superior to SPDIF/Coax and should always be prioritized for your digital sources.

I have also plans for trying out an external clock for both the Marantz and the bridge. Any recommendations...? :-)