I will (not) return my RS130…

ROSE Products RS130
#61

@BorisM
> Yes, that would not be the normal use case for Roon. You could make it work, but whether it is worth the effort…

I made it work in JRiver, using calcutated fieds etc. JRiver is much more customizable in this respect than Roon. And I can tell you that it was a lot of work. But now I am reaping the benefits on a daily basis. :slight_smile:
I use Jriver only for database management and ofline convolution, not as audio player.

#62

I can imagine. I got a few one-off or super-obscure albums into Roon, and they work well enough for me, but if my entiore collection were like that I would not have bothered.

#63

I’m also a long time Roon user - and I don’t like the feature to be always online in order to use Roon.

But on the other hand, My music is stored on my NAS and this is independent to Roon. It could also be used with the Rose App - even it would take a lot of time, to generate the DB again in Rose.
I don’t care, because once Internet would go off globally, we have for sure other concerns than a running Roon. And there are still other ways to have a work around. So this does not bother me at all.

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Would You recommend the RS130?
#64

The Leaf Audio sticks out :wink: Did you test it against other dacs?

#65

Yes, before I had Lampizator, Terminator 2, Holo Spring 3 L2, Teac UD-701N and others. I prefer the CMD27 to all of those, especially after replacing the opamps by Burson or Staccato ones, which is easy to do (no soldering, just plug and play). This DAC is a steal. It also has a volume control (which I do not use) and balanced headphone output.

#66

Thanks a lot. On a good day I think I can replace an opamp. How do you connect to rs130 - and is the rs130 the one clocking?

#67

Mutec Ref10 SE120 external clock > 75 Ohm > RS130 > USB > fiber > USB > DAC

or

Mutec Ref10 SE120 external clock > 75 Ohm > RS130 > USB > fiber > USB > Audio-GD DI20HE DDC > I2S > DAC

for even more lush immersive spaciousness.

I also tried optical but this does not sound very good for some reason with this combo.

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#68

I would highly recommend Rose 130, made an immediate improvement into my sound system. Ignore people who say there’s no difference, most of the time, when you investigate them they don’t have much knowledge about real world music, just pseudoscience. It’s the difference between a Steinway and a Baldwin. Yes the Baldwin can do the job and sound good doing it , but it will never be the Steinway.

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