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See first post in the thread.

It seems they designed this primarily as a low-cost, low-power PSU to feed the Regen, but then expanded it to work with other similar devices, including the micro rendu. At the same time, Alex has also said this is the first in a line of products, so I'd guess at some point there will be a bigger, and more expensive one (or two?), to serve other uses.

Curious to hear what John S. thinks about this hypothesis.

To add a bit more to my report above about successfully running DSD128 in Roon mode, this is also with a mixed fiber-copper network. So the micro rendu is connected to a fiber switch via an FMC, that fiber switch is connected to a mixed copper fiber switch (which my NAS is connected to), and in turn to the router. It's probably similar to your setup. Maybe you could try another mode to see if this is an NAA-related issue?

FWIW, I have no problem playing DSD128 in the Roon mode.

Good to know; thanks.

Generally a good idea to just leave it on 24/7, even with the 9V iFi PSU?

Not sure about with microrendu, but Chromecast Audio works pretty well here.

I don't think you're being very clear. Forget about the underlying technology (it's likely you actually don't want airplay): what do you actually want to do?

Is there any documentation to show the commands for the basic use cases here (dsd2pcm pcm2dsd, dsd2dsd)? If not, could you perhaps add one to the repo, or post them here?

So you have the music drives connected to the sonictransporter via USB? If yes, you're right; local storage. How are you specifying the paths? Possible there's some kind of syntax error or something?

If you read earlier, you'll see him responding to someone that was have one custom built.

Not 100% sure, but I thought Sonore was bundling the hard adapter with the device.

If you go with BTRFS (on Ubuntu, or Rockstor), worth noting that the RAID 5/6 code is newer than RAID 1/10, and so maybe a little less robust. Great thing about BTRFS, though, is that you can seamlessly convert RAID configuration, and so start out, say, with RAID 10, and then convert to RAID 5 or 6 later.

I'm happy with my DIY build; using a Chenbro 4 hot-swap bay chassis, the Asrock C2550D4I MB, ECC RAM, and four drives, in a RAID10 configuration, using Rockstor (CentOS + BTRFS). I chose hardware that would also do well with ZFS if I changed my mind later, but so far so good.