Silent Party at home with Roon - What are the options?

[brian (Brian Luczkiewicz)]

Is there a limitation other than CPU/MEM resources for Roon core to be able to handle multiple devices with DSP enabled?

No

In terms of CPU - If DSP is enabled for binaural and upsampling at the same rate for all zones in a grouped zone, would Roon core upsample the playing track once for all zones or once for each zone in the group?

The upsampling will only happen once, the other stuff (probably lighter weight) may be repeated per zone.

How many phones/devices would you estimate an i7 Roon core support simultaneously?

You haven’t provided enough information to answer this question. It will depend on which i7 you have, how much processing you’re doing, how many distinct streams are playing, etc, and it quickly gets too difficult to call precisely. There’s a decent chance that your networking infrastructure will fail before Roon fails, especially if there is WiFi involved.

For BYOD - Would all phones with Roon installed be able to control the playlist? Is it configurable?

Yes, all would be able to control. No, not configurable.

Could BT zones and Roon on phone zones be grouped together?

Nothing’s going to stop you from doing that, but it will only sync properly if the whole bluetooth stack across various devices is reporting its output delay properly. No idea how true that is in practice across a diverse set of products.