Upgrade 120

[Sailor4W]

@Sailor4W -- to expand a little on what @Chris Marshall said above:

There are three main parts to the Roon system architecture:
- the Core, typically a Mac or PC, which co-ordinates the whole system
- (one or more) Controls, typically a computer, phone or pad that runs the Roon UI and allows you to interact with Roon
- (one or more) Outputs, which are devices capable of playing music -- such as a Devialet Expert

So for a minimal system you'd use an Expert as the output device and a Mac or PC as the core and control.  You can add phones/pads to provide additional controls, and/or other output devices as needed.

If you're using Roon, the Devialet AIR application is of very limited use.  The Roon UI (on the Control device(s)) does everything you'll need.

You're right that it's not 100% guaranteed that the CI-equipped Expert Pros will become Roon Ready.  However Devialet have stated publicly that it is the top priority on their roadmap.  At an event held at Oxford Audio Consultants in July, they said they'd been working on RAAT actively since May and expect it to be released by the end of the year.

Good news that Devialet seems to set high priority to developing a Roon Ready solution! Once that is available, I guess it becomes downloadable without having to upgrade the CI board? As I mentally decided to have my 120 upgraded to Expert 220 Pro with CI, I wonder if it would be better to wait till Devialet makes the Roon Ready upgrade available?

Thanks for all your input, great forum here!