19-May-2020, 12:23
You're not missing anything, you've basically covered the situation.
You can stand up so you can see the display window (depending on distance you may have to step forward a pace or two in order to do so) or you can use the remote app to tell you what input is selected. You can wall mount the amp so you can actually see the display, or you could build a stand to hold the amp up in a near vertical position which could sit on the surface the amp is currently sitting on (there are photos of such stands in some of the system threads on the forum here). Otherwise you can use Devialet's remote app on your phone or tablet.
Since you're using Roon you should know that Roon lets you avoid the need to check the input when you're using Roon to play something, just select the music in Roon and tap "Play" on whatever remote you're using for Roon and Roon will swap the input on your 220 to Roon Ready or AIR depending on which network connection you activate in Roon's audio settings. That means you don't have to see or check your input when you want to use Roon, but you can't swap to a non-Roon input from within Roon when you want to play something from another input. I haven't had your problem since I finished ripping all of my discs to my server and started using Roon for all my playback choices. Roon will even turn the amp on for me if it's turned off when I tell it to play something. It just doesn't do everything so I still have to use the shiny remote to turn the amp off and to do things like use tone controls, turn SAM on or off and change the SAM setting, and so on. What that means for me in practice is that the only thing I really use the shiny remote for is turning the amp off when I'm finished listening. I have to be standing up to check that the amp is off but when I'm turning the amp off I'm also getting up out of the listening chair anyway so standing up to look isn't an annoyance.
You can stand up so you can see the display window (depending on distance you may have to step forward a pace or two in order to do so) or you can use the remote app to tell you what input is selected. You can wall mount the amp so you can actually see the display, or you could build a stand to hold the amp up in a near vertical position which could sit on the surface the amp is currently sitting on (there are photos of such stands in some of the system threads on the forum here). Otherwise you can use Devialet's remote app on your phone or tablet.
Since you're using Roon you should know that Roon lets you avoid the need to check the input when you're using Roon to play something, just select the music in Roon and tap "Play" on whatever remote you're using for Roon and Roon will swap the input on your 220 to Roon Ready or AIR depending on which network connection you activate in Roon's audio settings. That means you don't have to see or check your input when you want to use Roon, but you can't swap to a non-Roon input from within Roon when you want to play something from another input. I haven't had your problem since I finished ripping all of my discs to my server and started using Roon for all my playback choices. Roon will even turn the amp on for me if it's turned off when I tell it to play something. It just doesn't do everything so I still have to use the shiny remote to turn the amp off and to do things like use tone controls, turn SAM on or off and change the SAM setting, and so on. What that means for me in practice is that the only thing I really use the shiny remote for is turning the amp off when I'm finished listening. I have to be standing up to check that the amp is off but when I'm turning the amp off I'm also getting up out of the listening chair anyway so standing up to look isn't an annoyance.
Roon Nucleus+, Devilalet Expert 140 Pro CI, Focal Sopra 2, PS Audio P12, Keces P8 LPS, Uptone Audio EtherREGEN with optical fibre link to my router, Shunyata Alpha NR and Sigma NR power cables, Shunyata Sigma ethernet cables, Shunyata Alpha V2 speaker cables, Grand Prix Audio Monaco rack, RealTRAPS acoustic treatment.
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
