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[bernardl]

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If the  Devialet itself could become a roon core then game over... they kill the market for good and the rest of the source/streamer/dac/pre-amp/amp/cable industry mostly goes bankrupt.

Why should the Devialet  become a Roon Core? According to Roon themselves, you get best sound quality when the Core (server) software and the renderer software are running on different devices. Whether we're using the AIR protocol with Roon as at present, or RAAT when the CI amps become Roon Ready, the Devialet is a renderer so we should get best results running Roon Core on a different device.

In addition Roon Core can do a lot of processing, especially if you're using the Roon DSP engine. The Devialet's processor also does a fair bit of DSP processing with things like SAM and tone controls. The current processor on the CI board may well not be capable off handling the DSP functions for Roon plus the Devialet DSP functions so that means needing to get a processor upgrade and new software. Considering the last 6 months of mucking around with the CI board rollout and the software program associated with that, how many of us CI owners would look forward eagerly to going through another hardware and software upgrade program to make our amps capable of doing Roon Core functions as well as what they are currently doing? Not many, and I suspect that not a lot of non-CI owners are going to rush to that upgrade after hearing of all the issues that CI owners have gone through with the current upgrade program, especially to end up with a 1 device solution for Roon that Roon themselves say is less than ideal.

There is for sure value in having a Roon core accessible from various network replay devices, but I would be surprised if a one box solution (core and renderer both running on the streamer board) were not superior to a network based multi-box setup. I'd be very interested in understanding the reason why Roon claims this. I wouldn't be surprised if this were the result of a willingness to stick to their architecture.

I don't believe you have factual information to back up your claim that the streamer board doesn't have the power needed to run a Roon core on top of the other tasks running in the Devialet, do you?

It seems obvious that the streamer board was designed to run software similar to a Roon core, and the Devialet implementation will probably be very similar indeed, only will it lack the sophistication of Roon.

Cheers,
Bernard