Hey, Community friends, we’ve got exciting news on the Roon Ready gear front. Check out our blog announcement and stay tuned for more details - coming soon!
Wow, unexpected
I’m hoping there will be a ‘Roon Relay’ equivalent of Roon Bridge so that we can build our own relay devices.
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Really, can’t say I didn’t expect it at some point given they added the ability via the api ages ago.
Helps it play catchup with rival hardware and what we have been able to do with extensions, hopefully the mitigate the horrible delay and it opens up using different DSP to your devices and allows them to sell more hardware I guess they will do a nucleus style box.
In principle yeah, it was just unexpected to me at this time.
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Timing wise I agree. But I think now being part of a hardware company then writing was on the wall. Helps them keep up with rivals that they may loose out to. Wiim being one as it’s a low cost high value product which does this already. It also makes sense for the product to evolve in different ways to entice new user base.
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Rereading the blog this bit hints that this might be like Roon Ready SDK and be embedded in existing products. That would be interesting for ones that already have d2a abilities.
We’re excited by Roon Ready Relay’s potential to extend the Roon Partner program and welcome more manufacturers to the Roon ecosystem
Can someone break this down for a drunk man? I am guessing I can plug a cd player into a roon device and stream that in the house or something?
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Feed any source into Roon. CD players, phono stages, digital outputs,… Either built into the device (like a Roon Ready phono stage) or conceivably a separate box that accepts analog and/or digital inputs.
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Is this announcement setting the stage for some additional announcements at CES 2025?
Maybe a Roonsberry Pi.
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I am not sure, but this sentence in the article might be an oblique hint:
Stay tuned for more Roon Ready Relay device news, coming soon at CES 2025.
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It will be interesting to see if any existing partners add this integration to existing digital Roon Ready pre-amp type devices or just decide to launch a new device (forcing an upgrade) instead. Hegel owners can start the clock now, they might be Roon Relay Ready by 2027 or so on past form.
I still think it is odd that the core Roon hardware products cannot run Extensions without the help of an external box.
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Sounds like a network device (ethernet and WIFI) that can receive from all types of other devices via all sorts of wired and wireless methods and make them all act as Roon Ready devices.
I think it’s a box that sits between your audio output devices and your Roon server device. Maybe it receives audio from all these other devices, routes it through your Roon sever, then takes the signal from your Roon server and sends it to your endpoints.
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I am trying to make sense of this article… I currently have a Denon 8500 AVR that is not a Roon Ready device. It can only do airplay. with this new tech, does it mean that my Denon will be a Roon Ready Relay device that can handle gapless, lossless and hi-res playback?
No, not even close to that. This is about devices providing audio input to Roon.
AJ
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I see this as only good news, wiring legacy equipment into a relay device for streaming through Roon is a great idea and will attract more customers.
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Indeed. Though, the message is still rather ambiguous. Will roon offer or will manufacturers be enabled to make Relay hardware? Or both?
Would be really great to be able to integrate other hardware as input for roon. But to what extend? There are lots of possibilities to transmit audio data. Also analog. And would it be rather “passive” receiving or also controlling digital inputs?
But let’s hope for the best 
Maybe it will allow us to play Apple Music on our iPhones and send that through Roon. That would be pretty cool.
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It sounds like it needs specialist hardware though, my amp for instance is not roon, so I guess thats out of the picture, so like the tape loop out/output into some sort of analogue receiver to be played through roon?
I am struggling to find a use case except for that super rare record you may have that you can only play in the sitting room but want to listen to upstairs or something.