Roon Support of Linn (and vice versa)

[Michael_Faoro]

I’ve had a thread open on this since the DSM 3 came out. Here is a recent post from a Linn employee:

Roon downsampling DSD256 to 128 though Linn DSM supports 256

Hi, Linn employee here. There are a few misunderstandings in this thread. I’ll try to clear them up. Linn DSMs do not use RAAT to integrate with Roon. Instead, we worked with Roon to define a different network protocol that we both implemented. The first pass at this didn’t include support for determining highest supported sample rates (a big oversight in hindsight but easily missed when over a decade of products had the same limits). We agreed an approach to advertise this over the netwo…

It appears that the ball is completely in Roon’s court and they have decided to drop it and let it roll away…