Roon Labs – Who is using it and how?

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Millemissen wrote:
Seems that you are not quite up to date....B&O did not ditch NL.

... we will see, but you forgot to add, that for multi-channel streaming B&O is using WISA. So no need to change anything.

But unfortunately B&O is not following WISA consequently - or did B&O ditch WISA, too? 
At least B&O forgot to consider a WISA transmitter in the Beosound Stage and in the Beosound Core. As well as a WISA receiver at least in the Beolab Shape.

But probably no B&O customer cares! Because consumers who are looking for state of the art integrated audio and video products will not find anything within the B&O product range (not taking about the mass market of Airplay, Chromecast and bluetooth loudspeakers).

WiSA is not a streaming protocol - it is a way to wirelessly connect speakers to a source (with the transmitter unit built-in).....and supports up to 8 channels from one source.

Let’s call it a transmission protocol - B&O calls it Wireless Power Link/WPL.

As for the other ‘things’ in your post, I already gave my take on why WiSA is not a part of the mentioned products - and I understand that you miss it for your use case......which is ok.

From the beginning B&O has offered the external Transmitter 1 unit for these cases and more.

Why should B&O have ditched WiSA?

By the way, they worked closely with the WiSA people, when this technology was developed and they know pretty well what WiSA is about.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

I love this post from Alsfed! A product like Moment is is perfect for Roon. In my case, I considered a Moment but decided to use my iPad Pro instead as a Music System (I have it docked in my living room almost exclusively for Music and Home Automation control -  works well). The Roon UI/UX is superb. Having said that, it is not difficult to integrate Roon into current B&O products if anyone chooses to. 

My dream would be, that Bang&Olufsen opens the Beosound Moment operating system. Perhaps as a Bang&Olufsen Create / Beocreate project.

It should be not too difficult to install a Roon labs control app on the Moment Jukebox, as the technical specification of the Jukebox should be the same as the Nexus 7 from 2012. And to use the Moment Soundheart (Cortex A8 CPU with a linux distribution) as a Roon lab output by installing Shairport Sync (= linux based Airplay receiver) on the Soundheart.

Does anybody know, who in the B&O organization to address for support?

It would be easy and risk-free step for B&O into the Roon Labs world. Getting feedback if Roon would be an useful addition to the B&O product portfolio.

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