Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 18362.356(1903/May 2019 Update)
Roon Version 1.6 (build 416) stable(64-bit)
Network:
180/6Gb/s Coaxial (cable) to Asus RT-AC-88U (Gig wifi & ethernet)
Core is on ethernet
Audio Devices (Specify what device you’re using and its connection type - USB/HDMI/etc.)
Wi-Fi : Sennheiser AMBEO Sound bar (url: https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ambeo-soundbar)
Description Of Issue
I want to use Roon to send multichannel DSD audio to the AMBEO soundbar. It requires LPCM stereo/multi channel sound. Roon only recognizes the ChromeCast on the device and not the UPNP/DLNA ports
ChromeCast down mixes 5.1 to stereo, so I assume it cannot handle multichannel, thus my only option is UPNP/DLNA and I gather that is not supported by Roon.
Is that where this ends or am I missing something (hopefully).
Roon hold VERY strong opinions about DNLA , they have repeatedly said that they will never support it hence writing RAAT from the ground up to circumvent it . There has been a lot of commentary on the forum about this as many lower end streamers do not support RAAT.
I run 2 servers on my Core PC (Win 10 , i7, 16 gb RAM) for that reason I need DLNA to feed my Samsung Soundbar and my video streamer . I keep JRiver running in parallel and read the audio library into both libraries , thankfully they play nice together.
I use Roon RAAT through my Oppo 203 then HDMI to Bose soundbar, rear surrounds, and subwoofer. I always turn off the rear surrounds to listen in stereo. I don’t know, but I assume if RAAT could transmit 5.1 to my Oppo, I could listen to it. As I posted earlier, I didn’t know anyone recorded music in 5.1.
Agreed, I have that working with another PC but I don’t like having to use another PC. I like the idea of running another streamer on my server as Mike noted
I did as you suggested - non-trivial in my case, but it does work very well. I have multichannel sound going to my Sennheiser Ambeo bar. And Roon is running alongside playing nice.
Thanks again for the suggestion.