Air 3.0.4 Officially Released

[Hifi_swlon]

If by some miracle it actually ran reliably for a few weeks solid, I'd probably ditch the RoonReady device path and go AIR, primiarily so I could have Dirac back. But I've got no idea why I'm thinking so positively about it. Must be the Spring AIR.

doesn't the latest version of Roon do all the RC etc that Dirac does?

Well, yes and no. It has a decent convolution engine, but you need to generate the filters in software designed for that purpose. Dirac's the only Room Correction software that doesn't allow you to export convolution filters to be used elsewhere - you can only use its audio processor (kind of like an AIR virtual output).
The alternatives are horrible techie Windows or command line things, but there are a lot of decent walkthroughs and how-to's but I just don't think I've got the time / patience to do it. I feel like I know where I am with Dirac even if it's not the best/most configurable out there. Anyway, that's getting a bit OT here.

Back OT. I have to say I'm amazed! High-res playing all night, and music still sounds like music this morning!
I had to double check I'm actually playing out through AIR. Not conclusive but it's a good start. If they'd fixed the DSD I'd actually have a bit of confidence in it - but since they've broken something previously working, and not fixed it during this whole beta3 time, something still feels a bit half-a***d in their software QA. 'What if I go back to AIR and then they break it again.' That's what I've been thinking this morning.

Bet lets not take away from the fact that's it's been running all night on high-res via Roon without issues. That has to be a first for me.