Love them. Excellent sound in this room. Nice volume control.
There’s currently no great way to use them with Roon, however. I found S/PDIF to be sub-par and couldn’t get a UPNP Bridge to work with Dialog reliably, so basically Airplay is what’s left. Which is fine, but leaves out HighRes.
I have created a little parallel universe with Apple Music. Love it – great could library at home and out and about (and sound is simply good – really) and track/volume controls from my Apple Watch.
Still – RoonReadiness wouldn’t go to waste if and when it arrives.
There’s a bit of lag when using TV if you pay attention to it. I don’t care much for TV, so it goes by unnoticed most of the time. Does not bother me, but YMMV.
René, did you try the toslink on one of the Golds in stead off the one on the Dialog?
From my experience it looks like the one on the Gold is more capable than the one on the Dialog.
I have a RPI with a Digi+ Pro connected and I am able to send upt to 24/192 to them.
With the dialog the 192 does not work.
I use the airplay capabilities for syncing multiple rooms and use the RPI for the more quality oriented listening sessions.
The Dialog’s Toslink is even worse than the Phantom’s indeed. I use Toslink on the left and right Phantoms (one for TV, one for anything) – I still think it does not sound great compared to the built-in sources (Spark, UPNP and even Airplay).
The Phantoms are temperamental little beasties – I’ve made quite a journey piping audio in. As not to pollute this nice thread too much, maybe we should open an owner’s thread in the Devialet section and move a bunch of posts across. I’ll see what I can do.
Rene, I also found that airplay 2 music streaming and control via iphone / ipad / watch etc… is super convenient. Drains batteries of course as the streaming source is the device (not like a remote) but the convenience is very very high :).
Roon Core running on my office computer in the main house. $119 annual subscription seems reasonable to me.
Roon catalogs my streaming services (Tidal and Qobuz) and local music files anywhere on the network.
A Sonore ultraRendu in my Man Cave is on the same home network.
The ultraRendu is a Roon endpoint soon to be served by a 7 volt linear power supply to keep any noise to the minimum.(I got both from Small Green Computer Company who provided excellent service and advice!)
I use an Android Galaxy Tab A 7” tablet to run the Roon Remote app and choose what to send to the ultraRendu.
The Roon Remote user interface is glorious and robust with details.
The ultraRendu outputs to the Meridian Explorer 2 DAC.
The Explorer DAC outputs analog to the preamp.
I choose the ROON input on the preamp and I am off to the races.
My wish list is a Chord Qutest DAC or a PS Audio DirectStream DAC when they start selling new orders.
Don’t laugh but I actually bought an A/B switch for my hard line telephone today. I am only going to use that line for outgoing calls, and have grown tired of the telemarketer, scammer, and robocallers. They will switched off to B, and are welcome to ring my phone for hours on end, since I will never hear it.
Here you go… My office doubles as my listening room and watching movies. My roon end-point is behind the amp on the rack to the left. RPi and TerraBerry DAC 2 HAT. I’m lovin my ELACs.
But incoming calls are no problem 
