I just got a new Esoteric N-01XD, which is claimed to be roon-ready on its site (similar to the previous N-01 model) https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/n-01xd/feature. Unfortunately it isn’t being recognized by roon. I’m on the latest build of roon core - 1.7 build 571 stable, on Ubuntu. I suspect the issue is that the firmware process is not working on the Esoteric, since it seems to be stuck on 11.6d instead of the latest 11.11. I’ll keep working this from the Esoteric firmware angle in case that’s the problem, but thought I’d check in here to see if this is actually supported or not.
I’m able to get Roon to recognize it as an AirPlay device, but that’s not going to be the same audio quality. Supposedly it should be working as a Roon endpoint though. Any suggestions?
Ahh I see about the firmware versions, thanks for that. When you say it’s Not Roon Ready, do you mean this authoritatively, or more, “yep, you have the right versions so it should be working and if it’s not working it’s not Roon ready?” If it’s definitely not Roon ready yet, I wonder why their website claims that it is. I have sent an email to their support folks, so we’ll see what they say too.
I use synology nas as roon core and I use dcs network bridge with legacy msb dac before. Dcs has no such problem, just plug into the network and roon app has show in the audio zone.
The Esoteric N-01 is on the official list as Roon Ready. Are you sure this isn’t a network issue? Are all other network functions of the N-01D operating? Can you play to it using the Esoteric app or can you confirm that it is showing up on your network at all? The N-01XD has a setting that disables power to the network port. It is defaulted to On but if it is Off, you won’t get any network connectivity at all.