Roon for Linux [done in 1.2]

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

I agree with everything @Boris_Morris said, including the statement about the foo.

Electrical noise will not affect an error corrected digital stream over TCP/IP. The clock here that will be affected is in the endpoint, not in the source. Note this is only true in some protocols like RAAT, Meridian, and uPnP/OpenHome. On the other hand, Airplay and Songcast are source clocked.

I know someone will surely bring up that Airplay doesn’t work like that. I discuss that here:

What's wrong with UPnP?

I think you’re being a little disingenuous to Songcast / Linn here. The idea is that my primary source (A Linn Klimax DS/1) has quite a good clock thank you, and my lesser receivers (in other rooms in the house - a selection of Linn Sneaky DS’s) can take advantage of that. I agree that I can’t play DSD, but I’ve never found that a sound quality issue. Rik