Is anyone using the Rose RS150 with Audirvana? If so… How? Does Audirvana recognize the RS150 on the network like Roon Does?
You just choose Rose as output device. I have also installed the CITECH USB driver.
With Audirvana you will also get VU meters on the RS150 and better sound quality than Roon in my opinion.
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If you want the best audio quality I would play your music natively via the ssd or external drive. I am a huge Mac fan but they audio handling is awful even through apps except for roon that doesnt play the music directly from the server unless you set it up that way. Best to get your CPU and music separate unless you have the luxury of playing streaming music natively through a device like Hifi Rose or via a internal SSD or external USB or HHD or SSD. Just my two cents.
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Signed up for a free trial with Audirvāna this morning. So far really digging it. Sound quality is better than Roon. I had heard this before. It’s definitely true. Plus the VU meters work with it as you said. Crazy it does not with Roon. One thing besides all that and price that I like about Audirvāna is you have more options for metadata. Editing and such. Even though in Roon you can ‘prefer file’, Roon still adds stuff in that shows up on now playing screens. One quick question… Why does my RS150 show wav format on now playing screen? Is that normal? Most of my files are FLAC and Hires FLAC. Is there a setting I’m missing within Audirvāna or within my RS150?
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I found this at Audirvanas forum:
What does this mean: (source https://audirvana.com/audio-devices/ )
UPNP/DLNA
To send music to your wired/wireless system without any loss in quality, Audirvana works with the universally accepted UPnP or DLNA protocol. It is a royalty-free protocol that allows multiple devices to communicate over the same network to share and play files, including audio.
In this configuration, what DLNA refers to as a “media renderer,” which converts and plays the music, will retrieve the files on a “media server” using a control point, typically your computer. To be able to decode files in advance, Audirvana plays the roles of control point and ad hoc media server. In other words, it is seen by the renderer as the file provider, which allows it to perform the necessary processing.
As I understand it Audirvana transcode the flacfile to lossless pcm/wav and send it to the RS150.
In my opinion it’s better that my computer (more power) do the transcoding than the RS150.
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You are showing a Windows screen. I’ve looked at the similar screen on my Mac and can’t find the
options to add the “Kernel Streaming” under “Computer” then to add Rose-OA “Output Device”. How do I get there? Is it possible that one can only do Rose Streaming in Windows?
You aren’t by chance a fan of Top Gear?
Ben Collins = Stig
I don’t use Audirvana anymore, only Roon with HQPlayer. As far as I remember, Kernel streaming is Windows specific.
Yes my real name is Ben Collins. No just kidding. I watched Top Gear in the beginning before it got boresome.