Roon Ready networked AVRs and pre/pros?

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Maybe this goes along with multichannel support, but for those of us who live simultaneously in the two channel and multichannel/home theater worlds, Roon Ready networked AVRs and pre/pros would be a boon. Even commodity level AVRs now have network support for Internet streaming and DLNA/UpNP. The commodity level products probably would shoot way below Roon’s target audience. But higher end AVR and pre/pro offerings from Denon/Marantz, Yamaha, and Onkyo/Integra would be good fits as Roon Ready network endpoints. That would obviate the typical need to make non RAAT (S/PDIF, USB-S/PDIF, HDMI) connections to multichannel/home theater components.

So, has there been any traction with any of the major Japanese OEMs for making their higher end AVRs and pre/pros Roon Ready?

AJ

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Excellent question - I’d love to have this capability!

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Revisiting this. Has Roon Labs talked to Denon/Marantz or Yamaha about making their AVRs Roon Ready? Any hope?

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I get around this by connecting hdmi from my nucleaus+ directly to my McIntosh MX160 AVR (and it’s internal DAC) and using this connection when I want to play multichannel. I’ll go through my chord Dave/Blu with a LUMIN U1 endpoint when I’m playing 2 channel music. This style of approach likely works with most of the other AVRs.

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Sorry, folks. The marketplace tells the tale. Maybe I am forgetting one, but the only AV focused components to integrate Roon RAAT have been the two Oppo UDPs, now out of production.

AJ

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The Trinnov line of prepro’s are RAAT.

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Wonder how many Denon/Marantz and Yamaha AVRs are sold per year v. all the Roon Ready devices combined?

But, you may be right in terms of what that more mainstream market wants/is willing to pay for v. the more niche “audiophile” market.

Actually, I’m pretty sure you are. See: Kodi.

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Yes, that’s what I do with a cheap micro pc as an endpoint. It would be nice to eliminate that.

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I think the BlueOS-enabled A/V receivers from NAD are Roon Ready.

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My Denon AVR4520 is seen by Roon but I am guessing via Airplay which I think most AVRs have Airplay.
Problem solved.
Common AVRs (denon/marantz, yamaha, onkyo) sound dreadful anyway compared to mediocre 2 channel setups so I think Airplay is good enough in this scenario.
There are good AVRs like Cambridge Audio, Rotel, Arcam, Trinnov, Theta etc for music.

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I use a Marantz AVR as one of my zones and it works great with Roon Nucleus via both the HDMI and AirPlay outputs. I really don’t notice the SQ difference on it between the two.