Issue playing 192kHz files via Hegel H190v

[Chris_Scacheri]

Hello,

Let me start by saying I am new to Roon so I am not sure if I am posting this in the correct forum. I set everything up and I am trying to play 192kHz FLAC files from my Roon Server (a Windows 11 Pro laptop hard wired to my router) to a Hegel H190v (which displays “Roon Ready” on the Hegel display). The files are stored on a Synology DS920+ and I have a mapped drive to the music folder on the laptop mentioned above. I can play 192kHz files, however, when I look at the signal path (attached a screenshot of the signal path), I see that first, it is being converted from 192 to 176.4 and then when it hits the Hegel, it converts from 176.4 to 105.47. I am not sure if I set something up incorrectly or if there is some other factor at play here. Any assistance that can be provided would be appreciated.

[AceRimmer (Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)]

Unfortunately that is the Hegel downsampling to its rather odd max sampling rate, that’s just how the Hegel is I’m afraid, there is nothing you are doing wrong at all.
Plenty of threads on the Hegel Roon Ready oddity that it is.

The main one about Hegel I think right here

[Chris_Scacheri]

Hey AceRimmer, thanks for the quick reply. One more question. Any idea why the sample rate is converted from 192 to 176.4 before it even hits the Hegel?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Roon is resampling files on Hegel H190?

There are a couple of things at play here, and they aren’t necessarily connected. The re-sampling in Roon: The H95/120/190 only accept these formats - 44.1, 88.2 and 176.4. Over UPnP, the resampling is done inside the amp. With Roon it is done in Roon, which is better. You can obviously argue that it would be better if we accepted all files natively, but it is a significant cost issue. Some manufacturers will think that doing all of them natively is the best solution. We think that saving th…

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Roon queries the amp and asks what it (the amp can handle) and then sends the amp what it has requested. Maybe the amp wants 176.4 because it is an easier transform to 105.27?

44.1 and 48 are different clock rates and to play them correctly you need both in a DAC, if the Hegel only has one, then Roon might be pre-converting that.

[AceRimmer (Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)]

I also moved it to the appropriate Hegel sub category.