What a month! January brought us Roon Ready devices from Ayre, Chord, dCS, ELAC, exaSound, Gold Note, Metrum, and Sonore. From portable solutions to all-in-one behemoths, there’s a new Roon Ready device for you.
Author: Kevin P.
Roon 1.6 is here!
What better way to kick off the new year than with our biggest update yet?
Version 1.6 introduces the brand new Roon Radio, integration with the Qobuz music service, and an improved user experience across several areas of the application.
Roon Partner Update: December 2018, Part Two
There was no better way to finish off 2018 than with 6 more Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices! Part two of December’s Roon partner update included offerings from Cary Audio, JBL, Mark Levinson, Mytek, and Mutec.
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Roon Partner Update: December 2018
December has been the busiest month for Roon partnerships to date, with 7 brands introducing 15 new Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices just in time for the holiday season. These devices seamlessly integrate with Roon, and are guaranteed to provide the highest standard of user experience and audio quality.
Audeze & Roon Rewrite the Rules: Partnership Delivers Headphone DSP
Audeze makes headphones that sound spectacular, there’s no disputing that.
And with their meticulously tuned designs, innovative materials, and breakthrough engineering, they have established time and again that they want to push head-fi to its limits.
Fresh off of Roon’s recently released DSP engine, Audeze reached out to us to see what could be done to push their auditory experience even further. The result is a set of carefully designed DSP Presets, seamlessly integrated into Roon.
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Devialet AIR, now in Roon
Today, we’re excited to announce built-in support for Devialet AIR in Roon!
Roon has always been the best way to explore the music you love, across all of your devices and rooms. Now, anyone with a Devialet Expert or Expert Pro system (all the way back to the very earliest models) can stream high-resolution audio using Devialet AIR technology directly from Roon, without a virtual sound card driver!
What’s Really Going on in Your Audio Stream?
Software, hardware, and operating systems silently modify the audio stream without providing any feedback all too often. Roon is changing that with Signal Path.
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Digital Room Correction for Less Than $100
Digital room correction is a pivotal part of any hi-fi audio system, and can make a budget setup sound like a professional one. Roon member @Magnus, with the guidance of Room EQ Wizard (REW) founder John Mulcahy, took the time to write a step-by-step guide on how to do digital room correction using REW and Roon. Check it out below.
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Transfer Your Playlists to TIDAL
Looking to make the switch to Roon + TIDAL? We know you may have years of groomed playlists in other services like Spotify, Qobuz, iTunes, etc., and that switching to a new platform can be cumbersome. Our friends at Soundiiz have built an all-in-one account manager for your music services, so accessing all of your playlists in Roon + TIDAL is just a few clicks away, not a few hours.
5 Tips for WiFi Audio Streaming
Here at Roon we have the immense challenge of developing software that plays nicely with a multitude of network topologies. From the crusty 12-year-old router with 8 daisy-chained switches, to emerging technologies like a mesh network from Eero, Roon must work flawlessly in any configuration. These 5 tips will help you set up a robust network ready for WiFi audio streaming.