In an AV receiver, DSD will have to be converted to PCM for bass management, room correction, surround upmix / stereo downmix, DSP effect, or even volume control, etc. The only gain is that you will have the choice of doing PCM conversion in Roon DSP Engine or within the AV Receiver, but it likely does not matter a lot. You will have to use an audiophile DAC for DSD playback without PCM conversion or decimation.
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Iāve considered that, the Denon does have a direct analog section with 7.1 inputs for the S88 and OPPO 205. No idea if the firmware can internally direct the signal there without using the inputs.
Iād be happy with Native DSD and the AVR taking the MC DSD conversion load off the NUC when the radio feature picks those for playback. That drags the NUC down to 1x and causing skipping and such.
It would be interesting to hear the difference between the AVR playing the DSD source with the conversion for Bass management and Room correction, etc. vs the direct route with the 7.1 analog processing.
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Working on it ā¦
We have heard back from Roon Labs that the temporary visibility of Marantz/Denon in the app under Roon Ready was due to development testing. This happens from time to time, and occasionally, itās possible to even activate a device and get a brief taste of Roon Ready functionality.
Aside from that, nothing has changed in regard to announcements, promises, and timelines for certification.
It is not possible to state when a certification testing will be completed, or indeed whether a situation is reached where both parties (Roon Labs and their Partner) will conclude that testing will end and a device will not become Roon Ready.
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Thanks Geoff. The waiting game officially starts.
So for now at least I continue to work on RHEOS. Iām not redundant yet! I can see several obstacles to gaining Roon Ready certification whilst maintaining HEOS compatibility. Letās hope they do get there.
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RHEOS is a brilliant plugin, Iām using it for nearly 2 years and it has improved my Denon/Roon experience substantially.
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Denon support on Roon Ready certification ETA:
We do not have any kind of official date or eta on this requested feature.
All I can say is that we are looking into it and may have a solution for you in the not too distant future.
Also this post on ASR forum sounds interesting especially features below:
- first-ever multichannel-certified Roon endpoint/multichannel streaming support
- idea of Dolby Atmos support via Tidal is being considered
But thatās only for directly connected devices, isnāt it?
No itās for all non RAAT network connections as well. Always has been.
Would it show as such in Roon?
Or maybe I donāt have anything that is only Roon Testedā¦ My Roon Ready Powernodes do not give any indication of being tested by Roon in Airplay sectionā¦
Maybe. Of the devices I have that do show under Airplay, none say anything about being Roon tested, even though they are Roon Ready.
Yes if they have gone through Roon Tested certification they should show under Roon Tested section thatās the whole point of it and they get artwork for the devicr. Not all models are there but a big chunk are itās the newer ones that are absent. They will work if not the same itās only a marketing tick box really for DACs or networked devices.
Note Heos devices which is their streaming section. Which is is cd players, Hifi amp and AVRs cd players
Only the HEOS speakers showed up under āother networkā devices list at time of my note, but today the receivers are back. Iām learning in a lot of cases this stuff works itself out in a short amount of time. Thanks all!
Do they also add artwork for devices that are not Roon Tested? Because
this obviously has the correct artwork (so do Flex speakers over Airplay) but itās all in the āother devicesā section with no mention of anything being tested at all.
Andā¦ neither does the Wiim Pro but it should this is a Roon bug.Roon tested is for Airplay and CC devices and everything else network non RAAT check out in the spec. It is not just USB DACS and has been for Airplay on all Denon and Marantz kit via HEOS not via its USB DAC or HDMU, infact not all have them or HDMI or USB in. Can we move on now please.
As I said earlier:
I wouldnāt rely on it, if I were youā¦
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We have heard back from Roon Labs that the temporary visibility of this device in the app under Roon Ready was due to development testing.
This happens from time to time, and occasionally, itās possible to even activate a device and get a brief taste of Roon Ready functionality.
Aside from that, nothing has changed in regard to announcements, promises, and timelines for certification.
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