Quick roon question

There may be differences in SQ running bdp2 as roon endpoint vs. playing your music straight off the hard drive that’s connected to the bdp2 using Bryston’s software or web interface. That’s why I brought up the set up I did with the Auralic in my earlier post. So if your system is resolving and you sit down for a critical listening session you may discover things you don’t like about the sound of roon. YMMV but that is my experience. However, as a database and a UI, I’ve not seen anything better than Roon yet.

You should theoretically be able to keep your hard drive plugged into the Bryston and run roon core on your laptop. I can’t guarantee that it will work this way with the BDP2 but I was able to set this up with my Auralic. When you install roon on your laptop and launch the core, go to settings then storage and add new storage thru the dropdown menu. You will need to know your Bryston’s IP address. The storage path you are adding should look something like this:
\\192.....\USB\Music
where 192.... is your Bryston IP. You will then wait until roon scans the drive. How long depends on the size of your library. One aspect of it that I’m still trying to figure out is how the music is being played from
the hdd...is it being passed to roon core via  network and then back to the transport? Or does Roon use some sort of index or pointer that tells the transport what file to play. 

You would also want to experiment with the drive connected to your roon core laptop as well. Don’t limit your setup to any particular config. Try what works and sounds best.