Issue with Roon Build 165

Randy Myers

Randy Myers

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There is an issue with the new build from Roon, build 165 that was recently released. A few users including me have reported that DSD over DoP drivers will no longer play at DSD level. This is how the drivers from Benchmark as well as many others, work. The only way to play DSD albums is to convert to PCM, 176.4.

I have verified that these albums play just fine at DSD levels with JRiver. The issue happened as soon as Roon updated to the new build.

Hopefully Roon will address this issue ASAP!
 
Randy Myers said:
There is an issue with the new build from Roon, build 165 that was recently released. A few users including me have reported that DSD over DoP drivers will no longer play at DSD level. This is how the drivers from Benchmark as well as many others, work. The only way to play DSD albums is to convert to PCM, 176.4.

I have verified that these albums play just fine at DSD levels with JRiver. The issue happened as soon as Roon updated to the new build.

Hopefully Roon will address this issue ASAP!
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Then you aren't really hearing DSD are you?
 
No, not until they get it fixed. I have verified that it plays just fine with JRiver. First real issue I have encountered with Roon. They asked a couple of us to send screen shots. We will see how they address it and take care of it.
 
The folks at Roon are working on the issue. In the mean time they have sent me files to roll back both my server and controller to build 161 which works perfect!
 
You're welcome Joe. So far the good folks at Roon have proven themselves worthy of our trust. I have little doubt that they will fix the issue. But with the previous build all works fine for me.
 
So far, no updates. Their customer support has sent me, and a few others with issues, files to role us back to build 161. Build 161 works just fine. I know they are also working on release of a full version update, 1.3.... but no other word on the issues with build 165 as of yet.
 
Roon posted in our thread that they have a fix and are doing QA to assure that all is good before releasing it.

"Hey guys,We have implemented a fix and will be sending it to QA soon. Hoping to release it as soon as it's fully tested.
Again, sorry for the trouble here"
 
I think so also, but I believe they are putting most of their efforts toward version 1.3 whihc is supposed to be released shortly. I do know that rolling back to build 161 works just fine.
 
Roon just released build 168, addressing this issue. I have not checked it out yet but will shortly!
 
Yea, seems to work good! Actually I have noticed one other very small problem seems resolved also. I had noticed in the past that switching between PCM and DSD albums would not always be very smooth. It would switch but require me to press the play button a second time. Now it seems like it switches between very smoothly without any issues at all!
 
I've had the issue switching between formats also. I was thinking it was a firmware issue in dac. Can't tell u how many times my system has locked up.....

Not sure if it's solved yet but if it was a roon issue its totally unacceptable on their part. It never occurred to me it would be a roon issue.

I would not characterize this as a "small" issue. More like a fundamental flaw that should never happen.
 
I have never had an issue pressing play a second time, therefore to me it was a small issue, but it is better so far now for me. Again, Roon is very much in the heavy development stage and doing great things so I will give them some slack. By the way I have never had any of my DACs lock up with Roon (several different ones).
 
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