My Synology NAS is my core. My Marantz AVR is my main audio unit. It is connected via ethernet and it works really well (I play music via Android phone as a remote). BUT, my flac files are being played via Airplay. Is that downgrading the audio quality? Also, all of my multichannel files get donwgraded to stereo. My DSD files also get downgraded.
What can I do? I think a Roon bridge (that would connect to my AVR with HDMI) might help? Should I get an Intel NUC? But I don’t need a new core as my NAS is working really good. Is Intel NUC an overkill for a bridge? But I heard that lesser options like RPI can’t feed multichannel od DSD audio to my AVR? Would really like to get the best out of my music collection
You might try a cheap Windows PC to just function as an endpoint. Just load RoonBridge on it. There are all in one units that come with Windows installed pretty cheap. Since it is only going to be an endpoint, it doesn’t need a big processor.
