Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming Not liking Roon... Can I stream Tidal directly? How about Sooloos?

If you’re buying Amarra Luxe today - rather than upgrading from a previous version of Amarra - Tidal connectivity is included as standard.

G'day JustAlex mate!
FYI from another post today about Tidal playback issues through Sooloos.
I therefore don't recommend Sooloos to play Tidal.
Cheers
Bruce-o

6000 quid? Did you buy it new? I think my stuff is like second, third, fourth, fifth-hand! I've got 9 DSP5Ks and a 561 for less than 6000 quid. Not as good as your 3200s to be fair, but I'm sure those are out there too.

If the iMac is far from speakers, you could get a network player like Bluesound Node ($599), or a HifiBerry ($99) or plenty of things in between. Wont need the 218 then. Alternatively, as others have said, a USB to SPDIF converter and a long RCA cable works too.

Unfortunately the price of living in a country where the sun always shines is people are always outdoors, not sitting inside listening to music. Add freight and a distributor in the supply chain and you have lower demand and higher costs! Maybe one day I’ll buy an old pair of DSP 5000’s, sit my 3200’s on top and pretend I have a pair of 8000’s!

I’ve read using a USB converter can introduce jitter?

Sounds like Sooloos isn’t worth spending more money on... will have a look at Amara or persist with Roon. Have downloaded Audionirvana which is meant to work with network streamers but it can’t see my 218. Is that because it’s not actually a network streamer?

I think this came up months ago when we were first discussing that Sooloos would no longer be supported, but what are some other alternatives to Roon- I would be interested in other options that work well with 818v3, support Tidal and have an easy iPad interface.

I really like Sooloos, and it is very easy for all of us to use in the house (built in support for the MSR control App is also a big plus).

How do we get Meridian to relaunch Sooloos?

I’ll pay $500 for a subscription to support development costs... and so I don’t have a pair of £5000 bricks in my living room!

That’s a great idea 😂

It was relaunched already... it’s called Roon.

Roon is what Sooloos should have become, an ever growing system we can rely on with developers who actively engage with their customer base.

@Chris

Roon is what Sooloos DID become.

The fact is that the earliest versions of what you know as Roon today were called Sooloos 3.0.

For various reasons, already discussed at length on HH, the original Sooloos team separated from Meridian and the software renamed Roon.

IMO It was pretty obvious that there was a giant space in the market for a hardware agnostic streaming music management capability. Doing that from within a specific brand made no sense. Meridian also had other priorities for R&D money... that we see today as MQA.

Again, IMHO, it is quite remarkable just how well Roon have delivered on the original vision. And, at a fraction of the cost many of us spent getting into Sooloos with functionality far exceeding a single brand ecosystem tool.

The Meridian 218 is not a streamer (but will work with Roon), which is why I recommended the Meridian 210 Streamer, which Audirvana will recognise (but Amarra will not).

Amarra Luxe is only recommended if you’re making a direct audio connection.

Sell the 218, get a 210 or Digione signature, both can do Airplay.
Edit:210 can not do Airplay,thanks to VK for the correction

The 210 does not do Airplay. It was originally supposed to, but the feature had been pulled when the 210 was actually released.