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[sahmen]

Now, talking about "awesome" here are freshly announced accolades that Roon has garnered, literally hot off the presses:

1. Stereophile's Products of 2017 Accessory of the Year Award
2. Stereophile's Products of 2017 Joint Budget Components of the Year Award


Let me add as a footnote in honor of Emo that the Emotiva XPA Gen3 two-channel power amplifier  was among the Finalists for the "Budget product of the Year" Award.
Personally, I'll just say a well-deserved "Congrats" to the guys at Roon.

[Loop 7]

wilburthegoose I too had every intention to uninstall Roon after the trial but 18 months later...

[Casey Leedom]

And I keep hoping that the new RMC-1 will include some form of built in streaming endpoint so I don't even have to mess with a Raspberry Pi ... Lonnie once said to me in email that he din't think the RMC-1's display would be good enough to display Album Art, etc. and my response was: don't even bother. Roon separates out End Points, Servers, and Controllers. The Controller can display anything you want and is typically an iPad, iPhone, etc. which is full capable of displaying Album Art, Song Lyrics, and all the rest of the Meta Data for which Roon is so famous ...

Casey

[wilburthegoose]

You can send Roon directly to the XMC-1 via USB. It works perfectly.

[wizardofoz]

I think roon is great too and ropieee as well

[DYohn]

Yes, I don't want my endpoint to display anything. Indeed, I don't want it to have LED lights indicating power on (I tape over them.) I just want excellent SQ (which, in my opinion, Sonore products provide.)

[Casey Leedom]

Nov 21, 2017 6:42:57 GMT -5 wilburthegoose said:

You can send Roon directly to the XMC-1 via USB. It works perfectly.

Ah, but I want to just hook up a 1Gb/s RJ-45 Ethernet Cable and be done with it. I just need AMedia Client on the RMC-1 — either a Squeeze Client or a Roon Endooint.

Casey

[wizardofoz]

yes we all gave up waiting for an Emotiva streaming server solution....Roon is full of useful stuff...even room correction in you are up for it

[Casey Leedom]

I'm personally in favor of Emotive not inventing their own Streaming Solution. I just want a coupe of good standard Streaming Clients integrated so I don't have to have yet another dongle, power brick, etc. But, it's not that critical and I can get a Raspberry Pi3 if I have to.

Casey

[wilburthegoose]

All you do is connect a PC/server to your home network. Then either run a USB/digital cable from any PC/Mac to your XMC1. Or - use a Roon endpoint like the Oppo UDP-203 or 205. Or a Raspberry Pi.

Or anybody here: roonlabs.com/partners.html

[kybourbon]

Nov 22, 2017 6:50:18 GMT -5 wilburthegoose said:

All you do is connect a PC/server to your home network. Then either run a USB/digital cable from any PC/Mac to your XMC1. Or - use a Roon endpoint like the Oppo UDP-203 or 205. Or a Raspberry Pi.

Or anybody here: roonlabs.com/partners.html

What's the cheapest way to add an endpoint?

If its the Pi is there tutorial to show you how to do it?

[Loop 7]

kybourbon Cheapest is likely a Raspberry Pi unless you already have a device that is Roon capable of which the list is rapidly growing.

Link: RoPieee Raspberry Pi Roon Solution

[Casey Leedom]

Nov 22, 2017 6:50:18 GMT -5 wilburthegoose said:

All you do is connect a PC/server to your home network. Then either run a USB/digital cable from any PC/Mac to your XMC1. Or - use a Roon endpoint like the Oppo UDP-203 or 205. Or a Raspberry Pi. ...

Won't work for me since my server is upstairs. I have a 1Gb/s backbone in my house which is the way that the music data (mostly FLAC) is routed to the music client/endpoint. That's why I've been interested in just sticking a 1Gb/s RJ-45 Ethernet into the back of the RMC-1 and be done with it without having to have another box back there with it's crappy little wart power supply.

But, given how cheap things like the Raspberry Pi3 and other solutions like the ODROID-XU4 are, my request to add a streaming endpoint to the RMC-1 simply may not make sense and I'll just have to live with the clutter behind my system.

As for easy solutions for Raspberry Pi/Roon Endpoints, my friend loved the Ropieee solution.

Casey

[wilburthegoose]

To be honest, I enjoyed putting the Raspberry Pi together.

Motherboard ($35): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CD5VC92/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Power Supply ($9): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MARDJZ4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
HiFiBerry Digital Sound Card ($45): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01578WELW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Steel Case ($32): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FPZE1BI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and you need a MicroSD card (cheap).

You can save by not getting the steel case, but I really like the way it looks. It's about the size of 2 decks of playing cards and weighs only a few ounces.

Great info at www.hifiberry.com/

PS - my server is in the basement, and I'm listening now upstairs thru the Raspberry Pi.    I have my Pi wired, but you can easily add a WiFi card.

[DYohn]

If you are not a DIY person the cheapest Roon endpoint is likely an Apple TV or a Google Chromecast...

[Casey Leedom]

Oh, it's not the cost that bothers me. It's screwing with it at all and having junk cluttering up the rear of my system that's irritating. I spend way more than enough time screwing around with computer stuff at work. The last thing I want to do is more of the same at home. And I have tried mightily to keep the rear of my A/V System as clean as possible, using only shielded cables, etc.

Basically I'm being a whiner ...

Casey

[kybourbon]

Can you use an NVidia Shield? Would be awesome to have Kodi and Roon in 1 box.

[kybourbon]

Nov 22, 2017 14:53:13 GMT -5 wilburthegoose said:

To be honest, I enjoyed putting the Raspberry Pi together.

Motherboard ($35): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CD5VC92/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Power Supply ($9): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MARDJZ4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
HiFiBerry Digital Sound Card ($45): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01578WELW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Steel Case ($32): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FPZE1BI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and you need a MicroSD card (cheap).

You can save by not getting the steel case, but I really like the way it looks. It's about the size of 2 decks of playing cards and weighs only a few ounces.

Great info at www.hifiberry.com/

PS - my server is in the basement, and I'm listening now upstairs thru the Raspberry Pi.    I have my Pi wired, but you can easily add a WiFi card.

So for the Pi what software do I need to install on the MicroSD card?

[Casey Leedom]

I'd just go with the RoPieee distribution. It makes it stupidly easy.

Casey

[KeithL]

Try this:
sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
(it's the one I use)

You might want to try v0.95 - there seem to be a few issues with 1.0

Nov 22, 2017 16:47:19 GMT -5 kybourbon said:

Nov 22, 2017 14:53:13 GMT -5 wilburthegoose said:

To be honest, I enjoyed putting the Raspberry Pi together.

Motherboard ($35): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CD5VC92/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Power Supply ($9): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MARDJZ4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
HiFiBerry Digital Sound Card ($45): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01578WELW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Steel Case ($32): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FPZE1BI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and you need a MicroSD card (cheap).

You can save by not getting the steel case, but I really like the way it looks. It's about the size of 2 decks of playing cards and weighs only a few ounces.

Great info at www.hifiberry.com/

PS - my server is in the basement, and I'm listening now upstairs thru the Raspberry Pi.    I have my Pi wired, but you can easily add a WiFi card.

So for the Pi what software do I need to install on the MicroSD card?