I was just wondering how to use Roon & HQ Player if the endpoint should receive the audio over Ethernet. I’ve checked the forum and I’ve found discussions about that resulting in:
Establish a “DSP only” connection Roon>HQ Player>Roon.
Learned that architectures don’t allow this to becoming reality in the near future without compromising SQ. Ok.
Using HQ players’ proprietary NAA. Downsides are:
RoonReady devices not necessarily NAA compatible
losing Roon output multi room architecture
Hence my question, ever thought about:
Integrating NAA compatibility in RAAT for RoonReady endpoints?
I’m no engineer therefore excuse if my thought might be stupid.
It would release Jussi of the burden of maintaining the NAA distributions while opening up far more endpoints to HQP, from DYI to PC/Mac to Hifi streamers.
Thanks all for the feedback. 4) sounds good, even better. This would open up all the Roon endpoints like all those Aurenders, Totaldacs and others out there, for HQ Player features output over Ethernet. I have no glue how big the amount of hardware streamers is that will be RoonReady and NAA endpoints at the same time, but most likely they are not that much. So 3) or 4) should be a win-win for HQ Player and Roon in terms of prospects as well.