Upgrade Roon Essentials to Roon

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

@Wolfram_Strohschein

Is it possible to use the Elac Discovery as a roon server (not the essential version!)?

@Wolfram_Strohschein, there is no upgrade path to full Roon.

Roon server appliance from ELAC

Roon Essentials has no signal path, no DSD, no streaming to Meridian, Squeezebox, HQPlayer, the high res PCM audio is capped at 192khz, it has no private zones, it has a 15k track limit (for this box, other boxes will have different limits), there are no composer/work pages, no Roon Bridge support, other stuff. Technical support for Roon Essentials is done by the vendor, and not by Roon Labs. It was a last minute decision to give our Roon Ready partners as much support as possible, so Roon Re…