Connecting Marantz NA6006 to Roon (Airplay mode vs RAAT)

[john (John Iburg)]

Hello All,

I recommend reading our CTO’s post on this exact issue, it should clear up any confusion about the differences between AirPlay and RAAT:

RAAT and clock ownership

Yes, the advantages happen in cases with an embedded DAC, a USB bridge, or an S/PDIF bridge. Most discussions about audio clocking focus on clock quality, not clock coherence. This discussion is about the latter. The word “jitter” doesn’t belong anywhere near this discussion. RAAT has no impact in that domain. It moves buffers of audio asynchronously, just like USB. It is not involved in generating clock signals to drive DACs. In the best possible system architecture, you’d have one clock: a h…

-John