Cambridge Audio 851N not displaying audio file informations

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

Hi Chris,

My understanding is drawn from these threads:

RAAT [was Roon Speakers] - What , When, How and for Whom?

It goes to show how many different things are being discussed when nobody has questioned the whole RAAT [was RoonSpeakers] concept! Would anyone care to elaborate (or speculate) ?! Cheers

Zones and Private Zones

To clarify some confusion on Private Zones: Zones are composed of 1 or more endpoints (multi-endpoint zones are what we called grouped zones, so you can play the same thing in two locations or more). We only support grouped (or some people called it “linked zones”) with kind types… so for example, Meridian zones can link to Meridian zones, and Airplay with Airplay. USB zones can not be currently linked, but it is on our roadmap. A Roon Remote exposes its own outputs as zones, but the idea is t…

"Roon Tested" Audio Hardware (Formerly Roon Certified)

NOTE: this post has been replaced by the more updated page at https://kb.roonlabs.com/Roon_partner_programs Some of you may have noticed that a few audio products out here do some special in-app stuff when you hook them up to Roon. This is mostly in signal path and the footer, but we will do more and more “special” things with these devices. We call this hardware manufacturer program “Roon Tested”. We need to have a working relationship with the manufacturer to make this happen. The idea is …

After reading them again, my understanding is that RoonSpeakers will need to be implemented by a manufacturer in the particular device, usually by a firmware upgrade or similar. Mr. Wang of Auralic told me that he expects it will take two months from when they receive code to do that for the Aries.

The limitations on backwards compatibility would seem to be hardware requirements, capacity to upgrade firmware/software and implementation of that upgrade.

Does the 851N have upgradable firmware ?

Cheers,

Andybob