Core Infinity board

[Damon]

OK guys, speculation or not, if one has the fantastic new integration of Roon with Devialet, why would I need the new streamer board?

Please bear in mind that Roon has Tidal and Internet Radio already well entrenched, other than choice, there is no need for Spotify, Deezer etc etc. I don't need to stream UPnP (hate it). ...
So why, please discuss?

Actually, your point here mentions something that I was pleased to see in the streamer board discussions; Deezer. One of the problems, for me, is that most streamers support Tidal or Qobuz. Qobuz is not available in North America, and Tidal's music selection is too limited for me. That is why I ditched Tidal and went to Deezer Elite. It also streams in FLAC, where the file is available in that format, and sounded identical to Tidal when I last compared the two- that was about 18 or 20 months ago. Even if there is a difference in SQ between the two, I would still opt for the music source that has the widest selection. The streamer board will, as I understand it, also support Spotify, which has the widest music selection, and that too is valuable.

So far as I can tell, the new streamer board appears to be almost equal to Sonos in terms of natively supporting the broadest range of streaming sources. That does it for me.