DSP in AirPlay Groups

[Luke608]

Hello everybody! I am new to Roon and have benefited from these threads here on moe than one occasion! Thanks for that. I have a question that I haen’t yet found a satisfying answer to. Must critical listening is done on my main system. My core (an old mac mini I bought used for that purpose) runs a USB DAC that’s connected to my amp. I want to be able to run multiroom for non-critical listening, too. I have my eyes on Sonos for that and have learned three things here:

1. Roon can connect to Sonos via AirPlay2 as well
2. You can only group devices of the same sort in Roon
3. You can stream to a Mac via Roon using software like AirServer.

My bathroom has an extremely nasty room mode and at that frequency everything resonates to ear-throbbing volumes, listening while getting ready becomes utterly unbearable. Hence I want to be able to apply a parametric EQ to just that Speaker only, while in a group. I know the FAQs say doing DSP on grouped non-RAAT zones is not possible, and yet people use DSP/Procedural EQ to do Stereo pairs here. So my question is:

Will I be able to group Sonos (Airplay) and my Core running AirServer and while applying a parametric EQ to only one of the zones? Or will I have to get a Bluesound speaker instead for that (more expensive) because it does RAAT?

Thank you very much!

[kevin]

Hey @Luke608, welcome to the community! Sorry that it took us so long to get back to you.

That’s right, DSP can’t be used for grouped Airplay zones. You’ll have to opt for a Roon Ready device which would give you just what you’re looking for.