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Innuos and Roon?

I have been testing the new Innuos Pulse Mini and really liking the sound. Been using to stream to a R2R DAC by USB in a headphone setup and I think it might just edge out the Lumin U1 Mini with LPS for musical presentation and organic sound....maybe not for overall detail.

But I was concerned with what I read from Feb 2023 on the Roon forum. Can anyone comment??? I am using as a Roon endpoint without any issues.

 

dannyDanny Dulai Roon Labs Founder

This device is not Roon Ready or Roon Tested and we do not actively support Roon Core on this device (or line of devices).

If you find it running Roon Core or Roon endpoint support, they violate our terms and conditions and steal our intellectual property.

We are encouraging them to become Roon Ready, but there has been no movement there yet.

If you want to use this product with Roon, wait for proper Roon Ready support or expect it to break at some point in the future.

calieng
antigrunge2
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Roon with its heavy CPU usage is the opposite philosophy to InnuOS. Purely in terms of SQ InnuOS’ Sense beats Roon by a country mile. If you insist on using Roon, InnuOS is not the right choice

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carlsbad2
1,382 posts
 

I use Roon and an Innuos Zenity MK3.  Very satisfied.

I do not install the core on the streamer.  I have a separate core.  The thinking is that you want the core processing to happen on a different machine that the streaming is done.    I do intend to install a core on the streamer and test it myself but haven't yet.  

Another advantage of a seperate core is you can install Roons Root Kit that is much more reliable than putting Roon inside a Windows environment.

As for "roon ready", I'm never sure what to think of that.  I know Aurender sees Roon as a competitor and you can't run roon with Aurender.  

On my Innuos, the streamer appears transparent to Roon and Roon sees the DAC.   I have had this experience with other streamers and DACs so I'm not sure how important "roon ready" is (except for Aurender). 

Jerry

 

calieng OP
144 posts
 

Thanks for the replies. I have Roon Core on an Intel NUC. So was just looking for a good sounding endpoint.

I do prefer to stick with Roon rather than multiple other manufacturer specific software.

gdnrbob
4,411 posts
 

I also use Roon with my Zen Mini and Zen. 

Roon interface is very easy to work with, too.

No problems whatsoever.

Bob

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