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In Reply to: RE: OK, well, I guess it's sort of a cry for help . . . posted by JoshT on January 15, 2017 at 21:00:56
It does seem complicated but if you read enough reviews, it finally sinks in....its not all that complicated. I will admit that before setting mine up, I diagramed it out. But it worked first time.
Think of endpoints like an apple TV (and an apple tv can be used as an endpoint) It takes the data and converts into something your tv can use.
An endpoint can get its data from ethernet (a raspberry pi, a micrrendu, a few dacs with ethernet bridges built in) or form wifi. (apple airport or TV for example)
I have a sonic transporter from Small Green Computer and it does nothing! It sits there and hosts roon and its metadata. It makes not a noised works perfectly with about two minutes of set up.
The elac does a bit more (it has a dac too) and comes with a roon subscription. Its an even simpler option.
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Since you have a sonic transporter, I have a couple questions for you if you don't mind:
1. Will the sonic transporter itself stream wirelessly to an endpoint, or only through an ethernet cable?
2. Will the sonic transporter deliver a playable signal directly by USB into a DAC, or only through an endpoint?
I do think I'm getting there on what Roon is now. But I'm trying to figure out if I can manage a CA system without a Mac or PC in the chain at all by instead using a sonic transporter, or whether people are sill using it with another computer in the system (and if so, why).
As Abe points out, I'll still need one to rip CDs so I'll probably be going for a Mac Mini with the separate CD drive, but still trying to think it all through.
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The ST will not stream wirelessly. You would need to use ethernet to get it to a wireless router. Mine is all hard wire at this point so I'm not using wifi but its possible.
You need an endpoint for Roon to play into a dac. Something as cheap as a Raspberry Pi will do (or better yet a microrendu at 10 times the price.
The beauty of the ST is no other computer is needed. The Roon core lives on it. Its also completely silent and tiny. As far as ripping cds, my understanding is I'll need my laptop to rip and send to my NAS. I don't think you can attach a drive anywhere else...
anyone want to chime in?
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