Oh, that’s kinda disappointing.
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Not to me!!! 
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Got it. Sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake. Enjoy. 
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I wonder, Is that a Pink Faun eating Al’s popcorn?
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The Pink Faun is serving as a platform for my EtherREGEN, its external clock and the external power supply for both. A very expensive shelf.
It deserves better but I am not in a rush. I haven’t used it since the Grimm has arrived and I probably should listen to it again. But that means logging off of Roon on the Grim and logging in on the Pink Faun. That could take upwards of two minutes though.
The horror!
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Two minutes? That’s just too much. Perhaps you need an assistant to take care of the drudgery for you.
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I need Minions!
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Or at least a factotum.
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Hi Al,
You could seize the opportunity to test the MU1 as a Roon end point!
I’m not sure how to do that. It already is both server and endpoint.
So, you’d continue to use the MU1 as Roon core for this experiment?
I don’t understand Serhan. Do you understand what the MU1 is?
Definitely a Roon end point in addition to being a server and a Roon Core.
If I were to get one, I would use it as an end point only and leave the rest to other devices.
I am using it exactly as Grimm suggests it should be used. Perhaps you know something they don’t.
My experience with a DSjr
Using two players and two streaming sources, TIDAL and Quboz. Switching between using the Bridge II and USB on both players and both sources.
In every case, I preferred the Bridge II. There was a bit more detail, a bit more separation. It was there on every song.
I had a friend with me and after listening and switching for an hour, I had him operate the controls. This was using Roon to play Norah Jones from Qobuz. He would flip a coin to select USB or Bridge. I had my eyes closed. Then he played 10 seconds of music and I had to guess which one it was. I got it correct all 6 trials.
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What players were you using?
Oh, I see I made a mistake in my post. I was switching between three players - Roon, TIDAL and Qobuz Windows apps/players. Qobuz doesn’t support DLNA, so I was using USB through it and comparing that to playing Qobuz under Roon using USB and vs Roon Bridge. I could not hear any difference between Qobuz USB vs Roon USB.
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I have DSD Sr. with Bridge II. I added EMI self adhesive treatment (3M AB7050 HF) to digital board chips, Bridge II chips especially the daughter board, to the display board chips, and above right half of the toroidal transformer. I can no longer tell the difference between LAN input and I2S input fed by Matrix!
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To me, it’s ridiculous that Qobuz, whose business model is streaming, does not make their own app network capable. DLNA is a long established standard that would be easy to integrate into their coding. It’s lazy coding to just rely on third party DLNA capable apps to do what they should do themselves.
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Maybe no improvement “through” the ER, perse, but it’s what fiber does - or doesn’t do prior to the ER that’s most critical. EMI immunity and pretty much immunity to most/all other types of noise/interference.
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