Hello,
I’m having trouble getting multichannel FLAC and DSF/DFF audio to work in ROON. My setup is as follows.
Intel NUC with roon core=>Marantz AV10pre/pro=>amp.
After a hard reset and power on sequence my setup will play multi channel but if I change formats e.g. 5.1 to stereo roon seems to lock up and refuses to output anything. Sometimes when I switch from stereo to 5.1 roon will play but map the channels incorrectly.
Hello @Joachim_Roselio1 ,
Thanks for reaching out with your message. I’ve enabled diagnostics for your account and what this action does is upload a set of logs to our servers for review. Looking over this log, it looks like you are playing to JRiver zone from Roon when this issue occurs. Can you please confirm, if you play directly to your HDMI zone, is the issue still reproducible? Or does it only occur when JRiver is involved?
Please keep in mind that native DSD (stereo or multichannel) over HDMI is not possible with any PC like hardware. For DSD you then have to set DSD to PCM conversion in roon.
Sorry for the delayed response. I have tried using a different output directly to the AVR. I have set ROON To transcode DSD to PCM. Sometimes ROON won’t play at all and sometimes it will channel map incorrectly. My workaround to this is to restart the PC and AVR. Doing this will result incorrect channel mapping 30 to 40% of the time.
You always fully turn on your AVR, and then start your roon server? If not, incorrect device capabilities may occur. Also look at processing speed in your signal path. If it’s close to 1x, then dropouts are the result.
Only happening with multichannel or also with stereo? Denon AVRs tend to like an increased Sync time in device settings.
I power on the AVR first. My workaround to coax the setup to life is to restart the PC and AVR in the correct order. However, transitioning to stereo or switching inputs messes something up and results in incorrect channel mapping or silence when returning back to multi channel.
Tried increasing sync time? Solved my issues with Denon whenever tracks switch to different format or between stereo and multichannel.
Checked processing speed in roon’s signal path?
Hi @Joachim_Roselio1 ,
Does unplugging and replugging in the HDMI cable trigger any change in behavior? I wonder if this could be related to an HDMI handshake issue.
Tried a different pc with Nvidea graphics. Worked fine. I’m not sure why the NUC is having issues.
Hi @Joachim_Roselio1,
Were you able to test unplugging and replugging the HDMI cable to see if that makes any difference? Let us know what you find.
Yes it would reset but in transitioning between multichannel and stereo the issue would present itself again. Switching to a different pc with a dedicated Nvidea graphics card solved the problem
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