Thank you. I didn’t need a big SSD but was a Demo and I bought it as it was.
What’s the point of the Matrix > AQ Dragon HDMI 48? Just more cables.
The Innuos operating system shuts down the SSD when not in use. It is electrically noisy, which is why it has an extra power supply dedicated to the SSD drives, compared to the Zen. On the other hand, the SATA drives in the Zen make a bit of mechanical noise, just about audible close up without music playing, not audible with music playing. Not audible if you put the Zen in a cabinet.
I use both approaches:
- Wi-Fi connects my iMac to my router; and
- Various isolation techniques are employed with my internet of things downstream of the router and upstream of the DS DAC/Bridge II Ethernet card.
FWIW.
Just had a look at the AQ Dragon HDMI. Costs £1,899.
My 4TB Innuos Zen Mk3 cost me £1,900.
£1 difference
Never done the exact sum of my cables (just the idea could terrify me!) but might be 60% of the entire system components, speakers included.
Quiet crazy outside this forum, please don’t tell anyone it’s pretty embarrassing!
After I experienced the I2S connection with the Dragon HDMI over the USB, it was simply my decision!
Once the Innuos arrives I’ll do some more comparisons to confirm you or not worth it again.
Like you I’m in the same boat. Once I realize how much a great cable can improve the sound, I could not go back.
Cumulative effects of forum psychosis…
Once I put in the Sonore with Optical I never looked back. Is it the Optical, or Sonore or combo? Not sure. But it works very well. The Sonore for me seems to be very fussy on boot order and gets out of sync with DAC and I have to reboot both. I would love to simplify things with Airlens. I wanted to keep optical isolation for for my room (dont like wifi except on phone and pads) so I went with a used Melco S100 and feed the unit with optical source. This had enough switching ports to handle the whole room. Using Plixer recommended LPS. Will it make a difference? Too much work to figure out. I needed a switch in there, so I went with what I thought would be the best.
I should not say nothing else for wifi, as I did get that wifi dongle for the P20, but that is not for audio that is for my fun at work looking at the graphs.
The Innous is not Roon Ready. It looks like it works, but Roon doesn’t support it.
I debated about this “experimental mode” with the dealer, who asked directly to Innuos team in Portugal today and they assured me that it works. Otherwise the unit will take the return way.
This aspect makes me a bit nervous.
My worry would be future updates that might cause issues.
Particularly when/if Mobile Roon comes out.
Don’t worry at all. It works Roon Ready and is why I bought mine in the first place. It has been faultless as a Roon Core for over 3 years with all the updates. Many thousands of Innuos machines have been sold to host Roon.
The reason is because Roon specify Intel i3 as a minimum. Innuos use Intel NC4200, which is slightly slower, but more efficient.
The chances of the Innuos processor being unable to handle your Roon are incredibly small, irrelevant for pretty much everyone, unless you are upsampling many zones at the same time.
Mobile Roon makes no sense.
Not sure why mobile Roon makes no sense. I have access to my hard drive collection through JRiver/JRemote and use it on a regular basis. I can then cast the music to my car through carplay, or other devices using airplay, bluetooth etc… The music is organized, in JRemote, the way I like things organized. I can even select data rates for quality or efficient streaming. I would assume a similar feature in Roon would be valuable.
Incidentally, if you want to use the Air Lens with Innuos and don’t have Roon, the best way is likely to be with Sense uPnP integration.
Would you expand on this please?
To me it means that the same functionality I have at home would be expanded outside that premises. We would be able to use Roon anywhere there’s a cell or internet connection. We could use it in our cars, hotels, work, etc… I personally think it would be fantastic.
Me too as always when softwares are involved, I’m scared also each time my Mac in office offers to me the last version upgrade. And a few minutes later is always scheduled an urgent or important “thing to do” that requires my computer is ready to work. Puah!
What release of JRMC are you using?
I did not realize I might be able to do this!
TIA.
SEE