Not sue what you bing a lifetime member or me replying about Octave has to do with you liking Bryston. Who said anything about Bryston?
You responded to my post, #176. The last sentence mentioned Bryston. My reference to being a lifetime Roon subscriber is to show experience with Roon. My point is that Roon can be improved upon sound quality wise. Re-read the posts. The comparison was Bryston MPD to Roon. NOT Octave.
No response is required.
Yes your last sentence mentioned Bryston but that was one sentence out of your post. My response simply stated I will wait until Octave is a product before making judgment. You liking Bryston has nothing to do with my response, which is by I didnāt mention Bryston in my reply.
Octave has potential to sell lots of units if it sounds better than Roon. If it matched Bryston, the interface would sell me.
If it doesnāt, itās just duplication for me. Roon doesnāt get used much these days, since itās not my best sounding resource.
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Roon and Octave are completely different products. Roon is multi-room music management and DSP software and costs $100 per annum, and Octave is expected to be a single-room closed system streamer with a 1TB hard drive at a cost of something like $6,000.
FWIW, Iāve been a happy Roon user for 18 months. I seem to recall reading that any possible sound issues related to using it with USB, which I donāt. Anyway, thatās a hardware issue.
Anyone who is using Roon as a multi-room system, which is its real strength, is not going to be able to replace it with an Octave machine. An Octave will replace a streamer, but cannot be part of the Roon environment because it will not be Roon Ready.
I use it with AES, BNC, and USB. Roon RAAT has a little veil on it.
Definitely agreed on the single location aspect of Octave. It would be reserved for my primary system.
Roon does a great job doing what it does. I just wish the SQ were a little better.
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It looks like any mention of the Octave network server is missing from the products. Does this mean that this project is officially dead?
P.S. 12 characters required for a login password!!? Really? PSaudio is not my bank. I donāt store any personal data here.
Welcome back!
Octave is still in development, but getting close.
(The minimum password length is eight, with a minimum of six unique characters.)
No, the Octave project is still very active. The plan is still to have the server out by the end of the year. Iām hopeful we can pull it off!
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Yes please, bring it on! Also, are there any indications as well for follow-on Octave music server products? I already have 3TB of SACD-DSD and CD-FLAC rips networked on my house servers. So I do not need another ripper or more storage. But I would really look forward to having a PS Audio deviceā¦ and not someone elsesā¦ to transfer music to my PS Audio DAC via I2S. Though I have not been waiting as long as someā¦ only two years not four.
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ok, it will be interesting to see what you come up with after all this time. The new Roon release is pretty good at music discovery but it doesnt do a good job with classical so maybe you can outperform them there. But my guess is Classical, is a pretty tiny market compared to pop/rock.
see it this way: it isnāt delivered too late, it just was announced too early 
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I think the lack of consistent metadata from the larger providers is really the Achilles heal with most Classical works.
That is a absolute correct statement. I have seen an interview of John Darko with a IDAGIO in Berlin that has concentrated on classical music streaming.
It is truly amazing! I am very tempted to subscribe.
They have developed a consistent way of adding useful metadata to classical music.
I did edit the metadata of my ripped classical CSās. It is just amazing in how many different ways Johan Sebastian Bach was written or abbreviated. Or in how many different ways the indication of the BWV (Bach Werk Verzeichnis) number is positioned around the song title.
So I have a lot of respect for IDAGIO in Berlin who are doing that for all classical music available for streaming.
I am not well Educated in Classical Music but I would be interested to hear opinions on how IDAGIOs handling of Metadata compares to Roon. Is Roon improving as they release new versions?
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You can download the app which allows you to search and find and compare. The Radio free channel is very good, when you search for a album and select radio, the radio will play same sort of music, I think your choice get in a que as my experience that the radio plays the music you wanted to hear after a while.
I donāt have a Roon license, so I am not able to tell you what is better.
I posted the information because multiple Roon users expressed their concerns about classical music. IDAGIO is specialized in classical music and if you watch the Darko video you will learn that IDAGIO works with experts in classical music.
For the subscription fee of Roon, IDAGIO provides the music with the metadata instead of only the metadata.
I just happen to like it.
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What about suggesting key points to the PS AUDIO STREAMER?
Obviously I2S robust isolated HDMI output.
Linear power supply. R core maybe? External?
Display with very low emf interference. 3M tape shielded?
Ethernet galvanic isolated port.
Fuseless operation.
Aluminum casework.
Vibration free feet.
Fentoclocks
CD ripper
2Tb SS storage memory disk
Internet upgradable software
Reliable and ultra fast multicore cpu
Can a guy dream or what?
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Is the streamer a different piece of equipment than the server? Iāve heard us discuss the Octave Server, but not an Octave Streamer. Are these different pieces or just different names for the same thing?
It could be both.
I have an Aurender A10. It streams, and acts as a server. It has internal HDD storage, and can access an attached external drive, and NAS. It will stream from Tidal and Spotify Connect.
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In this instance I think it is just a plain bare bones streamer to replace the Bridge and not compete with the other unit. Likely to be nothing more than a streaming board in a case with some sort of power supply.