Problem with my Rose 150 b

Rose 150b should play perfectly with Roon. Listening to it now…;) If you see your meters dancing around, one would expect it would be your output that is causing the problem, rather than your network connection. On top of the advice above you might also want to check the gain settings for your analog out (XLR or RCA) which you can select to match your (pre)amplifier.

I have to report in that my problem with connectivity has been figured out. Looks like I had a bad Ethernet cable. After switching to Wi-Fi for my connection everything worked great so I started thinking about what could be causing my connectivity problem and the only thing I could come up with is that I had a bad Ethernet cable. When I bought my Rose I ordered an inexpensive audio quest cable and looking back I was having this problem from the start.  A few days ago I ordered a new cat 6a cable from Blue Jeans cables and after using it for a couple of hours, no dropouts. 
 

I realize there may be some sound quality gain to be had from a better cable, but right now my Rose sounds pretty good.

I realize this is an old thread but I’ve been going through a similar issue on and off for about 9 months.

I use a Roon Nucleus to stream Tidal through a Rose 150b.

If I choose ethernet as the input to the Rose, eventually I get drops and then skips. I can restart this, reboot that, factory reset it, etc. to get it running for a while, but eventually it always begins dropping.

Whats interesting is that when I connect the Roon to the Rose via a USB cable, and switch from Ethernet to USB input on the Rose, I have never had a single drop. Its only symptomatic when using ethernet as the input (and always when using ethernet as the input)

For context I have some experience with networking so I have tried a bunch of tests:

switching ethernet cables

trying different ethernet switches

using my internet router’s LAN port instead of a switch

Connecting my Rose directly to my internet router and streaming Tidal directly from the Rose (bypassing the Roon)

**Every single test resulted in drops.

The Roon diags show theres a buffer overflow ocuring on the Rose when the drops occur. I dont think that should happen when its only streaming from one source,

My ultimate hunch is that I have a bad network card on the Rose, or perhaps theres a firmware issue. Whenever I do a factory reset on the Rose it immediately restores consistent streaming for a while, then eventually it drops.

The higher res music (>96k) is much more symptomatic.

Interestingly I installed the system in November 2023 and this did not begin occurring until around April of 2024. So firmware was a suspect.

The only test I havent run is using a different DACm so I am now going to borrow a different Rose to swap it in and see what happens.

For anybody that actually read through all of that - thanks. And if you’ve encountered anything similar and fixed it - any help would be much appreciated :)