![]() I guess you could have it connected to a 5Vdc charger but for bit perflect playback (no Roon DSP) is a RPi3 more cost effective? Plenty of reason people prefer hard wired ethernet.Īnd same for preferring a permanently powered endpoint that doesn’t need batteries being recharged the way iOS endpoints do. ![]() Even then, I know of people that still have issues with Roon over WiFi with a mesh network and are in the process of installing hardwire ethernet throughout… I was one of these people too. Not everyone does or wants to go spend $$$ for a mesh network. You’re assuming everyone has a really reliable wireless network and a mesh network. Is it because people prefer their endpoints hardwired, rather than over wifi? If so, why exactly do they do so, when there seems to be no compelling reason in terms of quality, given the robustness of the mesh networks of today? As long as the main server unit which hosts the Roon core is plugged in directly to a router, does it matter whether the endpoint is on the same network, but just wifi? I am going to wait for a month or so, as I hear rumors of a refresh in the iPod lineup.īut this raises a question – why, in the discussions of Roon endpoints, is there no serious mention of this option? It seems way easier and robust than many out there, e.g., the various Pi based options. The latest versions run the same OS, and these things support a cycle of apps for at least half a decade or more, which means that they can be dependable endpoints for the middle to long run. Where did you get this nugget from?Īs I understand it, there isn’t much difference between iPhones and iPod touches. I did not realize however that i devices can do PCM768kHz / DSD256 as USB endpoints. This also corroborates my ear – I have been quite pleasantly surprised by the quality of the sound. Thank you! Once again here you are, to the rescue, like a knight in shining armor. I’d love a response from the cognoscenti here! The question is, what am I missing here? Does the iPod Touch somehow lack in bit rate and sample frequency? Would it, if only passing through to a DAC? Or is there indeed something else? Or, am I just missing the point and asking a question that has been answered earlier? Admittedly, I am just a listener, and have not a jot more than rudimentary knowledge about digital music. If I get this right, connecting the Touch to an external DAC will by-pass the internal DAC on the device. I wrote to Allo asking whether the USBridge plays with the SDAC, and haven’t heard back.Īnd then, I thought – why not just get a basic iPod Touch, install Roon, and just hook it up permanently? At $ 300, this appears, at first glance to be a terrific solution. However, I’ve had one bad experience with it, in that it just failed to play with a Pro-ject DAC. I wondered whether there are alternatives. The sound is terrific for the price, but this set up does entail having to plug and unplug the iPhone each time. Thus far, I’ve simply been plugging my iPhone to the SDAC. The missing piece of course is a streaming endpoint. I am in the market for a cheapish endpoint for my bedroom set up – which consists of three MD products, the HD 6XX, the Grace design SDAC, and the THX 789.
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