KEF LS50 wireless - roon ready? [not roon ready, but supported natively]

No, because this would mean you need to have a seperate upnp server running within your network. The rendu is also connected to your network, then picks up that stream and sends it to its usb ports which then is connected to your dac.

You have a pi for your ls50 w. Your pi is probably running roon bridge and is connected by wire (usb, toslink) to the ls50w. The pi acts as a roon endpoint in your network, so you can stream your music from Roon to the pi, which sends the audio stream to the usb/toslink of ls50w.

However, the rendu has a seperate software application called ’ SonoreUPNP bridge’. If you start this app, it sees the ls50 w in your network and makes it avialable in Roon as a zone you can stream audio to. Then you can stream directly from Roon to the ls50w via your network and you don’t need the pi anymore.

The SonoreuPNP bridge application supports PCM up to 192 Khz (so that matches the ls50w perfectly) and supports dsd64 via DOP and dsd128 (converted to pcm)

By the way, I do not use a microrendu or sonicorbiterSE. I have a SonicTransporter that can run run both Roon core AND Sonore UPNP bridge. Saves me a lot of money because I don’t need to buy a Roon server AND an ethernet bridge (like the rendu) and a good USB cable. But if you already have a Roon server and a Microrendu or Sonicorbiter it seems to me you can use the UPNP bridge application on iit if you want to play music from Roon to your ls50w without the need of yet another wire to it :grin:

And lets now wait for the firmware upgrade of our ls50w that makes it a native roon endpoint …:slight_smile:

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Wow, thank you for all this experience. I am a brand new microRendu owner. The problem for me is that I have the microRendu in my headphone setup connected via USB to a Mojo (and soon a Hugo 2 :sunny: ). What I understand about the microRendu is that only one output can be active at the same time, ie I cannot have both USB and UPNP, which would have been more than wonderful to have USB to the Mojo and UPNP to the LS50w.

I tried the bridge mode on mRendu to avoid USB connection but it always sets the speaker in max volume. It’s so scary that I dare not to try again before I figure out how should I setup in Roon. Can you share your settings with me? Thanks.

@R_Lacroix Hmmm… Just checked out the Sonictransporter i5 with 2TB SSD. Seems like a very attractive solution :slight_smile:

Had the same at initial setup. I instantly lowered the volume through roon but lowering volume of ls50w through roon has a few seconds of delay.

In SonicOrbiter:

In Roon:

Roon DSP is disabled for LS50W zone because of its own DSP

Can you expand on “the rest is all wrong”?

Everytime I see a new post in this thread I think it’s an official announcement from KEF about a new Roon Ready firmeware update :slight_smile:

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Everytime I see a new post in this thread I think it’s an official announcement from KEF about a new Roon Ready firmeware update :slight_smile:

Likewise…

lol! I hear u, I am in the same boat. Saving the cash to buy my set once they are roon ready :smiley:

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New firmware released recently: http://us.kef.com/product-support

No mention of Roon support though :frowning:

Windows only update??? Hello KEF. Ever heard of the Mac?

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hmm, that’s really weird…

I have Roon on a Windows server but that is more than 5 m away from the speakers and my longest USB cable is 3. I have a Macbook for this kind of things :slight_smile:

Eiher I have to move the (large & heavy) server at each firmware update, or I have to buy a cheap long USB cable just for the firmware updates :slight_smile:

Or you could move the speaker?

I realize it’s obnoxious to those of use whose primary machine is a Mac, but it’s not as if it’s in any way unusual to be unable to do something because Windows is required.

Other options include keeping a cheap windows laptop handy (and there’s no shortage of those!!!) or running Windows in a VM.

Other benefits to staying familiar with “the other” OS (whichever it is for you) include the ability to remind yourself what you prefer about your chosen OS, and the ability to sidestep the brain curdling frustrations of your chosen OS.

Funny thing, I actually did not think of that :blush: I will do that tomorrow.

No real argument, but honestly, the primary option needs to be for KEF to offer a MacOS version of the firmware updater.

I checked with KEF today about a Mac version of the updater. This was their response:

There is a mac version being worked on and should be released withing a few weeks.

That said I was able to do the update via Windows by using an old laptop I had forgotten about. Nothing earth shattering.

Nothing seems to be of any exciting improvements or new features/functions. Skip for now.