Are Roon ready Multichannel endpoints existent?

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Is there a Multichannel endpoint existent ? I mean a device that receive the Roon Multichannel stream via the network and have digital Multichannel output means two,three or four SPDIF or AES(XLR) connections?

I am not looking for a two channel streamer that feed then a Processor that „generate“ Multichannel.

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The most popular way is multichannel via HDMI. The following may be of some use.
Roon and multichannel

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These three are multichannel DACs that will play multichannel from Roon

  • (exaSound e38 DAC via direct USB)
  • exaSound e38 DAC and exaSound Sigma Streamer via network
  • Merging NADAC+ via Ravenna network
  • Merging Anubis via Ravenna network
    In addition, you can use a LAN bridge with USB output to the miniDSP U-DAC8 DAC or the miniDSP U-DIO8 which has four SPDIF or AES(XLR) outputs and four SPDIF or AES(XLR) inputs.
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There is also the Essence Evolve II-4K HDMI DAC that Kal wrote about in Stereophile, and you can use a simple i3 processor PC, put RoonBridge on it and it will output multichannel from Roon via HDMI to many home theater preamp/processors and receivers. JCR

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Blockquote Is there a Multichannel endpoint existent ? I mean a device that receive the Roon Multichannel stream via the network and have digital Multichannel output means

exaSound streamers like the PlayPoint Mark I and Mark II and the Sigma Streamer will accept a multichannel stream from Ronn and will output via USB to exaSound multichannel DACs like the e28 and the e38.

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Thanks to all for the helps, great.
But as my Meridian speakers have digital inputs only, iam looking for AES/XLR or SPDIF/RCA connection. I do not need a USB or HDMI output . I do not need D/A converters as they are built in the speakers as the poweramps.

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Easy. Get the miniDSP U-DIO8 which can provide AES/XLR or SPDIF/RCA connections. See:
https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/u-dio8
https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-93-minidsp-ripping-sacds

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Thank you Carl for the info.Your reports are excellent, i like that .So i have now my digital outputs, but i dit asked for a device to use it for a ROON endpoint and so i need a ethernet connection and not an USB input. Could that be that there is no device out there ? Thanks for any help or rumors or ?? Robert

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There might be a suitable LAN-USB bridge that will link your Roon Core to the U-DIO8 but I have not looked into that. Ask the guys at SGC about this: https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/music-players/products/microrendu?variant=18223114884

(Who’s Carl?)

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Hello Kal and sorry for my bad memory, of coarse i refer to you…
To less coffee or sleep maybe- sorry once more.
Regarding my original questions, it looks like that there no hardware around , BUT i have asked Trinnov and the Altitude 32 is a Multichannel Roon ready product with the needed digital outputs. As i have the Amethyst already and that is a 4 channel processor, i was in hope that the Amethyst is also a 4 channel streamer, but badly NOT. So its look like i have to count my money for a longer time to afford the Trinnov Altitude, as all? Others are USB streamer and believe all posting USB streaming doesnt sound as good as Ethernet streaming…Thanks Robert

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It would be great if Roon could group zones for multi channel playback and let you specify in the setup of a each zone what channels it can play.
Then it would be very cheap to build what you need with a bunch of Raspberry PI and HifiBerry Digi+ hat.

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Yes, the Altitude32 will do it very nicely: https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-98-trinnov-altitude-32-essence-evolve-ii-4k

I do not believe that is certain.

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If you already own Meridian’s HD621 processor, you could easily add a cheap HDMI Roon endpoint for Hi-Res multichannel.

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the Vero 4K+ OSMC HDMI linux box will play back multichannel PCM (I haven’t yet tried multichannel DSD, probably would transcode to PCM). I have it connected to the UHD722 . Conveniently it also plays 4k UHD HDR MKV files. It is my “go to” device for UHD playback right now.

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I assume the Meridian 861 V8 works as well?

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I no longer have the Meridian 861V8 powered on in my home theater. I use a Marantz AVR and connect via analog cables to the 271, which speaks speaker link to my Meridian DSP speakers. In my living room, I have a two channel setup which uses a G65 and UHD722, and the Vero 4K+ works fine in that mode (but obviously not multichannel, just two channel).

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