# Roon Ready Wireless Speakers

**URL:** <https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-ready-wireless-speakers/76020>\
**Category:** Audio Gear Talk\
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-ready-wireless-speakers/76020 "2019-08-13T21:56:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jazzfan\_NJ](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/jazzfan_nj/32/50021_2.png) [@Jazzfan\_NJ](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Jazzfan_NJ)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-ready-wireless-speakers/76020/27 "2019-08-20T18:46:22Z")

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> [@Philip\_Murray](#):
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> The moment the LSXs became Airplay 2 ready I immediately switched to it. I have Tidal and Qobuz (don’t ask!) and I love my LSXs (but not as much as my LS50Ws). I have now just seen that the LSXs have won the award for Best Product for ‘Wireless Stereo Speaker’ 2019-2020 at the EISA Awards, and I wondered if I had the same speakers? If they retail for about £1000 then through Airplay2 they are worth about £300-400 and easily double that amount played directly via Roon.

Now I’m totally confused. Are you saying that when using the LSX with Airplay 2 versus using the LSX with RAAT there is enough of a clearly audible difference to make the speakers worth less money?

As per this link: [Airplay](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/whats-the-difference-raat-vs-airplay/6891/5)  
Which explains some of the differences between Airplay 2 and RAAT and which does not mention any audible differences only important differences in the streaming protocols and the like.

I also understand that the maximum bit rate and sample frequency is much higher when using RAAT but as far as I can tell airplay 2 does allow for 16bit/44.1kHz streaming. Claiming that using, for example, a full 24bit/96kHz stream over RAAT versus using a down sampled 16bit/44.1kHz stream over Airplay 2 results in a clear audible difference without a carefully conducted listening test is not quite fair.

Now having said that if I had the choice of using RAAT instead of Airplay 2 I would most definitely use RAAT because of all the other advantages of the RAAT protocol.

Full disclosure:

At present none of the many Roon endpoints throughout my house use RAAT, these endpoints use (as identified under the “Audio” setting screen) either the Chromecast, Airplay or Squeezebox streaming protocols - and they all sound great! Again which doesn’t mean that some of the issues that I experience when streaming hi rez (24bit/96kHz) via WiFi to a Squeezebox Touch, like audible dropouts, would not be there if I was streaming to an endpoint at uses RAAT. However using the SB Touch with a wired Ethernet results in issue free playback of a hi rez stream (as is clearly stated in the Roon Knowledge Base).

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