It not so much high maintenance as it is involved setup. Unless you change cartridges or loosen the set screws there is little to do to the turntable beyond the initial setup. This is a table for people that appreciate the flexibility to setup the table perfectly for cartridge chosen. This...

Since ketchup is mostly tomatoes, ketchup is a fruit.

No, with the sonicTransporter it is built for you and the case choices are made based on which version you get...not personal preference.

It's called sarcasm......you can argue that vinyl sounds better than CDs. But, there is no way CD transports sound better than ripped tracks...equal..yes.

I use a sonicTransporter i5 and an ultraRendu endpoint....both of which are Linux-based but I don't have to touch them. In fact, there is no way from me to get to the Linux. I get the advantages of the Linux OS without the downsides. I manage both devices via a web interface that lets me update...

No, they don’t work the same. They do some of the same things but they are not close to being twins.

No, not twins.....

I knew before my trial subscription was up that I was going to buy the Roon lifetime license. I have it for almost 3 years and I am still very happy with it. I invested in a sonicTransporter i5 and HQPlayer Embedded to go along with an ultraRendu. The sound quality is fantastic and it is simple...

What adds value for you is probably different than what adds value for me or many other people. As popular as Roon is, you might want to consider that not everyone but you is stupid or likes to waste money. That is an arrogant position to take. I have 3 distinct listening locations, setup as...

One person's scam is another person's utopia. How is Roon a scam?

Except the RPi using USB does not sound as good as an ultraRendu on Schiit DAC with Unison. Crappy USB still sounds worse than quality USB even with Unison.

You guys can keep dreaming but you are just fooling yourselves. Roon is a small subset of the streaming market. So, not only would Schiit Audio need to build in Roon Endpoint support to this Ethernet port on their DAC(s), they would also need to support at least DLNA/UPnP if they wanted to...

No, not unique. You are talking about the filter being “closed form”. HQPlayer has 3 closed form filters in its filter array.

Of course they have not. All players have to read all the data to either run the digital to analog conversion process or pass the digital data on to a DAC to do that. Any company that says anything else is, at best, stretching the truth and, at worst, out and out lying.

Wait. Because it is not convenient for you to keep your DAC powered up something that is factually correct about your DAC is hogwash?? That makes no sense. I guess that isn’t surprising considering the source....

Well, we are if you think the continuous up time thing is hogwash. It really is best to just leave the DACs on all the time. Especially Yggdrasil and Gungnir Multibit.

The Yggdrasil needs a couple of days, not months, to sounds its best. The Gungnir Multibit takes about a day to sound its best and the multibit Bifrost and Modi take a fews hours.

About as much as you have added with your comments....I just took a lot less words!

But, it is not hogwash.....

That would be correct.....

That is hilarious coming from you!

Sarcasm. If you already new the answer, why did you ask the question? If you didn’t know the answer, why did you say the answer you received was incorrect?

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Roon is talking to the ultraRendu now, not your DAC, so you will no longer see the DAC is the signal path.