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Title: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 5 May 2018, 12:01 am

Hi fellow Salkstream III/Roon owners.

Roon just released a big update, v1.5.

Anyone using it yet?  Like it?  Any issues?

After my troublesome update to 1.3, I’m hesitate to update to new big releases until I get a sense of any issues it might have (btw, updating to 1.4 went much smoother than 1.3).

Thanks. :)

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Paret on 5 May 2018, 12:28 am

I upgraded earlier today.

Listening to it as I write this.

No issues at all.

I have a Salk III streamer.

 :popcorn:

Luis D. Paret
Keller, TX

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 5 May 2018, 02:02 am

Thanks, Paret. :)

I’m always so tempted to update right away, but I think I’ll resist and wait a week or so.

I’m following posts on the Roon forum as well.  So far I’m not seeing many issues. There’s lots of discussion about MQA, which I don’t care about.

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Paret on 5 May 2018, 07:57 pm

(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=179799)

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 6 May 2018, 04:50 pm

:D

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 6 May 2018, 09:47 pm

Paret,

Does your Salkstream III have a HDD drive or did you upgrade to an SSD drive?

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Paret on 7 May 2018, 11:09 pm

Quote from: Saturn94 on  6 May 2018, 09:47 pm

Paret,

Does your Salkstream III have a HDD drive or did you upgrade to an SSD drive?

HDD

 :thumb:

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 7 May 2018, 11:20 pm

Mine as well.

I keep reading on the Roon forum how they strongly recommended using an SSD for the core.  Perhaps to assure a good experience with larger music collections?  Compared to many on the Roon forum, my collection is relatively small (about 650 albums).

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Roninaudio on 8 May 2018, 12:14 am

I have 600 albums too and have Roon on a Seagate Hybrid HDD.  No issues. In fact I can stream, run an A/V check and file transfer simultaneously and it does fine.  I was just testing but perhaps you are correct- if I had 6000 albums = different story.

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Paret on 8 May 2018, 02:38 am

1089 for me and it works fine.


(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=179870)

 :popcorn:

Luis D. Paret
Keller, TX

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: jsalk on 8 May 2018, 02:49 pm

So far, we have only heard of one customer who had an issue with Roon 1.5.  We just re-installed Roon and I think that solved the issue.

In our setups, we have not had an issue.

One thing that 1.5 brings to the table is the ability to play MQA files with a non-MQA DAC.  Yesterday we played quite a few Tidal MAQ "Masters" using a non-MQA DAC.  It worked flawlessly.  Couple this with the ability to up-sample or down-sample, and you have a system that can play high rez PCM, DSD and MQA on just about any basic DAC.  Quite impressive!

- Jim

Title: Re: Salkstream III/Roon owners...using v1.5 yet?
Post by: Saturn94 on 8 May 2018, 10:54 pm

I went ahead and updated to 1.5 last night.  So far so good.

I just discovered the ability for 1.5 to stream radio stations using FLAC.  The few I’ve listened to so far sound great. :)