Roon 1.6 ... with Qobuz

[David A]

I was kind of hoping Devialet RAAT was going to introduced with this version. Then again, I don't even know whether Roon needs to change anything for RAAT to work on a specific piece of equipment.

I don't think we'll see an update from Roon when the Devialet becomes Roon Ready. I've got 2 reasons for thinking that:

1-  Read Roon's account of what RAAT is and how it works in this link:  https://kb.roonlabs.com/RAAT

It looks to me that once Devialet release firmware with RAAT capability, Roon will recognise the Devialet as RAAT capable and everything will work. I don't think Roon has to change anything, I think the only change required is going to be the Devialet firmware.

2- back around May last year at Munich, Devialet showed an early prototype of their software running with RAAT active. It had to be running with whatever version of Roon was current back then and there's been several FW versions of Roon released since then. Devialet had to be testing their firmware with whatever version of Roon has been current during that period so if what they were working on could work with previous versions of Roon, why shouldn't it work with any version. Roon are probably working with a number of companies at the moment who are trying to get their products Roon Ready and it really wouldn't make much sense if they had to produce a new version of Roon to work with each new product some company wants to make Roon Ready and in any event, if they did that, Roon would be spending lots of time alpha and beta testing their own software and certification would be a nightmare because every time they identified a problem during the certification process they'd have to work out whether the  cause of the problem lay in Roon or in the software for the device under test.

My conclusion is that we aren't waiting to see something from Roon, we're just waiting to see Devialet release their firmware once it gets certified by Roon.