Hi - Very new user to Roon, but impressed so far. I’m asking whether the RoonPlayer implementation on a Lyngdorf MP50 can support multi-channel audio, for example from Tidal.
When I enter Audio setup I don’t see the multi-channel configuration option that is in Roon Help for this option.
At the moment everything is played in PCM 2.0.
My setup is Roon Core on MAC OS/X - then using the Lyngdorf Network Player to play either my library or Tidal.
George
The Media Player of this product seems to be limited to 2-channel stereo playback according to the published Lyngdorf MP-50 whitepaper.
Even DLNA playback is limited to stereo (MP-50 fact sheet).
Media player:
Internet radio, Airplay, Spotify Connect, DLNA Support (Stereo)
Looks like you need to use another link (like for example HDMI) that supports multi-channel audio.
Update: As of the papers linked above, I’m not even sure it accepts simple PCM audio multi-channel streams over HDMI as I can’t find that listed anywhere.
The MP-50 does support multichannel PCM audio over HDMI. I use an Intel NUC running Roon Bridge on Ubuntu as my player. Works fine. Multichannel audio input clearly shown on the MP-50 Web interface.
I enquired on why Lyngdorf chose to use the integral ‘Tidal Connect with Dolby Atmos’ feature on their AVP’s rather than facilitating Tidal/Atmos via Roon (like Trinnov). Their response:
There are several technical reasons why Tidal Atmos is not available through Roon, but I guess it all comes down to the fact that when the processor platform was designed nobody had considered Atmos from streaming. Tidal Atmos has been available for some time through Tidal connect, but we are not sure how many users actually use it; the support tickets on Tidal Atmos are extremely few.
If sufficient Roon users request it we will probably look into the task of implementing support for multichannel files through Roon. It would require a lot of work, and at the moment we have other important tasks with higher priority.
