Rose RS520: > since a couple of days I‘m discovering several stopps of playing a song where the display is showing the continuoing of the song but no output anymore = silence. When I skip to the next song it will Sound again. This effect has Not been discovered when I Play Qobuz direct with the Rose Connect App. There I didn‘t had any Interruption. Is there still a bug with Qobuz Connect in Connection with Rose Player ?
@Wallis ,
I don’t think its limited to Qobuz.
I’ve noticed this w Spotify via airplay as well.
And also I’ve noticed it on other devices as well. Not just the RS520
Its also intermittent.
Everything is fine for me, all services are working properly. Rose RS 151
My rs151 works perfectly as well even after updating amazing pice of Hifi I’ll be sorry to see it go but I’m downgrading to a one box solution I know I’ll miss the great sound
You want one box?
Go w the Rose RS520.
Can’t beat the GaN amp.
The issue I think is w airplay in general.
I’ve had it happen w other devices than the Rose.
While a GanFET amp is beat very easily, RS520 is a very nice box with a state of the art DAC (better than the 160) and neat screen. As long as you do not need such niceties as subwoofer management, DRC, or working software 
it is a really nice piece of gear.
Well lets see.
You do have a line out so you have left and right subs which you can manage…
Or
You could get something like a Rel that you piggy back off your speakers output and then manage it on the sub itself.
As to room correction… that’s a feature that has gotten mixed reviews. And sure its not there.
If you wanted it… go for a Lyngdorf but lose out on the GaN and power.
You could. But neither do speaker outputs have a high-pass filter nor do the line outs have a low-pass one, so while it is doable, it will not be as good as something that has a proper sub integration.
I was talking about real subwoofers, not…whatever those cardboard boxes REL makes are. Subwoofers they sure aren’t.
If you do it right, it’s greatly beneficial in real rooms with real speakers.
GaN is no loss whatsoever, especially Rose’s implementation, and Lyngdorfs have sufficient power (and not quite as load-dependent as the Rose) for most practical uses. Not to mention separate outputs that are individually managed and can pass filtered/corrected signal.
Boris,
You use the RCA line out where you can control the voltage out… but remember you’re plugging it into an active sub which does have the high pass cutoff filter and its own volume. You don’t need to really use a cutoff on your speaker output because you may want to let the speakers play out their full range.
Some would argue … like you… that you want to set a high pass filter to stop the speakers from playing below a certain level. Some amps w a woofer RCA jack when in use will filter out everything below 80Hz on the speakers and then let the sub handle that.
There are lot of options and possibilities.
And w room correction there are a couple and yes… there are benefits, however YMMV. I’d take the RS520 w/o room correction over the WIIM or Eversolo Play. But I would take the Lyngdorf if it was at the same price point over the RS520 because they have the best room correction out there.
Oh and RELs are ‘real’. My T/5x is more than enough for my 10x12 room.
You must be an SVS fan.
You may. Or you may not. In case of e.g. Mon Acoustics (ahem) you definitely do not want to send anything approaching full range to them if you can avoid it.
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Some would argue … like you… that you want to set a high pass filter to stop the speakers from playing below a certain level.
[/quote]If you want to do a proper subwoofer integration, then you most likely do.
Anything that is slightly state of the art (and that includes Wiim or Node products) will have adjustable crossover for the sub. Something actually high-end, like Lyngdorf, will also include adjustable slopes so the roll-off can be adjusted to match the roll-off of speakers and the sub.
The 520 isn’t a bad device, and you can tweak it to sound pretty well, but in 2025 it just does not come anywhere near anything approaching state of the art.
From the “cool looks” point of view, sure. From the sonic one, analog outputs are identical well beyond limits of anything you can actually hear, and if you want accurate reproduction of the recording in your actual room on your actual speakers, either of those beats the 520 easily.
Yeah, we know, SVS is the only brand you have ever heard about. And yes, anything SVS ever made, including factory discards, is better than anything ever produced by REL. Because REL, and especially some cheap crap (as far as REL’s go, since they are overpriced by a factor of 5 or so) like T/5x is not a subwoofer any more than the little box you get with your computer speakers set from Office Depot is. The latter is likely to produce more bas, actually.
You do hear the differene because your speakers are not suitable for anything but audiophile vocal jazz drivel (God forbid the backing band has a double-bass player, they’d probably implode) and even a mediocre mid-bass reinforcement box like REL provides some improvement. A real sub, of course, would have been much better, even an SVS which is perfectly fine albeit not the best available.
Boris…
You can run your speakers to their fullest. The issue is that some may have trouble in the lower octave which would increase the impedance. There are a couple of things to consider…
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I don’t know the XO of the Mon Accoustic Mini. They could put a high pass filter and roll off below 65Hz. (Which is their stated minimum. )
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The speaker could see the increase of impedance but the RS520 is more than capable of handling 4 ohms.
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The RS520 also has the ability to specify the type of speaker where it does EQ out the output.
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You can set the EQ to a custom setting to also drop the lower frequencies if you were running the Mini s as your sole speaker.
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W a Rel or some of the other brands of subs, you can run your speaker out to the REL where you can set the XO and volume of the REL independent of the RS520 and Mini s. So if you don’t like REL, other brands do this as well. (REL was one of the brands recommended by Mon Acoustic ) The Mini is a ‘fast’ speaker and needs a fast Sub to keep up. The only downside to the Rel T/5x is that it is limited in how low it can go. So you’re not hitting the 20-25Hz range with that one. More like 33-35Hz which in a small room is actually enough to round out the sound.
One thing I have noticed is that the RS520 will seem to timeout and drop the Airplay connection if there isn’t any sound. (This is different from the standby/sleep mode.)
Sure you can. Amp works harder, speaker works harder, and all you get is a crapload of distortion in the bass, but no meaningful output.
Not really sure what is the point of an “audiophile” speaker that can’t reproduce a good chunk of a piano range, but yes, that’s exact;y the kind of speaker that needs good bass management to be even semi-acceptable.
What increase? Impedance is lowest in the bass, generally. Stop using those fancy words like “inductance” or “impedance” that you have no comprehension of the meaning of.
Sure, 520 can handle 4 Ohms, just not extremely well.
No it does not, it adjusts the volume curve (“cute” to have but totally useless) and even if it did EQ something, applying a random EQ based on some vague name of a speaker type is even less useful than an audiophile fuse.
You could. Some of us want to actually hear what’s on the recording though. If Mon were $600 a pair or so (that’s about as much as their fair value is) it could be an OK-ish setup for some secondary background music system. At the price level of either 520 or those… things… one expects that they could actually play music.
You can do that with any subwoofer. They all come with their own volume and XO controls.
If the only thing you have is speaker-level outputs REL might be an option (not that others didn’t have that, too) but with separate line outputs there is no point in running high-level signal into a cheap converter in the REL.
That, of course, figures, since neither company has a clue about, well, acoustics, and produces overpriced crap.
WTF is a “fast” speaker? Does it play 60Hz signal at 90Hz? Once again, you are regurgitating some nonsense that the salesperson unloaded into your head while selling you some junk they had best margins on that day.
The downside to T/5x is that it is not a subwoofer (that applies to all REL products). It’s a cheap cardboard box with a tiny driver, underpowered amp, and a crappy crossover, which plays less bass than many decent bookshelf speakers do. And crapifies the signal that eventually does make it through to your main speakers, at that.
If you shove it in the corner and crank up the volume you might get 35. Hiurray for low expectations. Of course you could have also gotten a desktop 2.1 set from the likes of Logitech, or whatever your local office supply store has, and had a better integrated system for $200 or so…
Must be some miracle those GaNs work