Hi All I’m currently using the HiBy R4, which features a customized Android 12 OS designed for system-wide bit-perfect audio. However, Roon ARC still seems to be capping output at 48kHz. It’s frustrating to have high-performance DAP hardware treated like a standard smartphone by the app code. Are…

Roon ARC will use Andoid Audio by default, whick down samples to 48 kHz, so Roon will do the conversion. However, there is a beta driver under Settings. Scroll all the way to Enable USB driver, and test. Of course, the HiBy may use some proprietary method of communicating with the internal DAC, so …

Thanks for the Feedback Indee the Beta USB driver does not work, I assume the driver is build for External DAC I’ll use the proprietary Apps until there will Maybe once a final Version of the USB driver Thanks Thomas

You could add your vote here. [image] Roon ARC bitperfect playback for DAPs Feature Suggestions As of now, ARC always performs SRC so it’s stuck at awful 44.1kHz. Please add option to play bit-perfect audio for supported devices. (e.g. DAPs)

I’ve also got the R4, and I accepted that I just won’t use Roon on it. I use USB Audio Player Pro and (occasionally) the Tidal app. The Built in Hiby player had issues with gapless playback. It kind of sucks to have to manage the library separately, but fortunately, my FLAC metadata tags were in pr…

Bit-perfect playback on HiBy R4 (Internal DAC)

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