Core Infinity board

[Chris Marshall]

Picking up on AlenB's question, I have to say that after trying 'Roon AIR' yesterday I found myself very impressed, set up took only a couple of minutes, the integration is excellent and the sound quality excellent also.  So I get the point.  

For me the big question has to be stability.  I have been running a microRendu in a variety of modes, RAAT, DLNA, Shairport, NAA with pretty much 100% stability.  We know that AIR has been plagued with stability issues, believed to be timing issues between the computer OS and the asynchronous input of the Devialet.  So OK, Roon AIR sounded great for one hour yesterday, maybe it is more stable now, but I cannot help but think that AIR is always one OS update from calamity.

Pim also picks up on the key point for me.  I am also ever the optimist, or at least I can allow myself to hope, that maybe the new OS Board might just be utterly superb for sound quality?

As a final point, it was not long ago that we were talking about the OS Board being dealer fit.  There is now this mystery 'modification', to quote "We will take this opportunity to do a few modifications on the motherboard to improve the performance of your unit".  I think the key to this question is more information re the quote above, part of me suspects that this 'modification' is not as big a deal as it sounds, but of course we just don't know at the moment.

The stability issue shows another advantage of Roon ROCK, the os is bespoke to just run Roon and completely in their control so any issues should be picked up in beta testing.

I understand the paranoia, I had my fair share of white noise and more than my fair share of BSOD in windows, but I think Devialet got air sorted at 3.04, the Roon integration should now mean that it stays that way!  

I too am hoping they can improve the sq with the new board, I'm also looking forward to deezer integration, Bluetooth and AirPlay as they will all make my system more accessible to the rest of the family.  You also never know, decent wifi might be even better sound still?