Originally Posted by Carl
I tend to purchase the highest SQ available, once I have it ... well I have it.
Roon's policy that all files be playable on all zones helps a lot with this. In practise it means you can buy as high quality as you fancy, and Roon will allow all zones to make the best of it they can. So DSD for example will play as native DSD one the zones that allow it, be converted and down sampled to 24/88 on Meridian Sooloos zones, and down sampled further to 16/44 for a laptop or other low-quality playback.

Talking of which, I look forward to an ID4x allowing streaming of 192kHz and DSD into my 818v3...


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