Are There Roon Ready I2S Streamers?


I thought that it was worth asking.

I'm using an IFi Zen Streamer with USB out to a MacIntosh MA1200, but I'm looking at the Denafrips Terminator Plus R2R DAC and multiple reviews have been less than kind regarding using the USB in.  This would mean adding the Denafrips Gia to reclock the USB in and export via I2S directly to the Terminator Plus.  I figure that it would be best to just find a good Roon streamer with I2S out.

vonhelmholtz

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von the 432 evos are upgradable and start at 3500 the high end sounds great and  costs 5500

 

we have a client using your holo Dac and he is very pleased by the pairing,

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect nj

US importers 432EVO music servers 

we import servers the 432 evo servers from Belgium these are considered among the best sounding servers out there.

 

We had the usb vs i2s conversation with the designer.

He said that he tested both outputs and concluded that i2s was not better and was nearly imposable to support as there are different implementation’s depending on the Dacs manufacturer.

as per USB, we have clients using the Terminator and our 432 Evo servers and getting great sound.

in order to have great sound from USB you have to isolate the Data correctly:

In the case of our servers we have separate assemblies: the CPU is in its own board, the USB card. and Clock, are isolated physically and electrically from the CPU, a special laser sintered 3d printed shield electrical isolates and further shields the CPU, and absorbs radiated noise from the all-ready low noise quad core CPU,

 

Even Roon is isolated, we use 3 cores of the CPU independently,

one core runs the program,

one core runs other processes,

one core handles files allocation

it all comes down to design, building a world class Server is way more sophisticated and complex then what many people think

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

US. importers 432EVO music servers