MBP connected to NAD 758v3 via HDMI, also on gigabit Ethernet
Connected Audio Devices
NAD T758v3 via HDMI (for multichannel) gigabit Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet to a RoPiee raspberry pi in another room.
Number of Tracks in Library
38,000
Description of Issue
Been struggling for 2 weeks to get the system to properly play back 5.1 from ripped SACDs. Briefly seemed to work after connecting to HT receiver via HDMI instead of Ethernet and messing with a few settings.
Now when I play anything in Roon over HDMI, I get about second of playback followed by a few seconds of low-level white noise, and it keeps repeating like that.
I have power-cycled both the Core and the receiver. I have disconnected and re-connected the HDMI cable. I have toggled exclusive mode. When I connect the Core to the receiver via Ethernet, it plays back 2-channel content properly, but of course downmixes multi source content to 2 channels.
This has been incredibly frustrating. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I think I figured out the problem – In my Mac’s midi settings, it was specifying the wrong sample rate – changed that and finally got uninterrupted output.
(Hope this helps someone else figure out this issue faster…)
It would sure be a lot easier to manage all of this if Roon could send multichannel content over Ethernet. Is there some non-negotiable hardware constraint that makes that impossible, or is it just a question of adding that capability at the software level?