PS Audio Directstream Bridge II stability with Roon


I am in the hunt for a simpler one box digital front end that can simply hook up to a stable Ethernet Cat 6 Ethernet cable from my gigabit switch and stream high res (DSD, 24 bit, etc) and Qobuz , Tidal, with minimal headaches. My PC is attached to same gige switch. I have read numerous reports and reviews about the sound quality of the direct stream dac. I am interested in its stability as Roon endpoint in particular. Where does it’s networking performance fall in the range of 0 to 10;
0 being a glitchy piece of hardware with poorly written software that has latent software bugs ( aka half baked solution but they needed to ship product and figured we will patch it)
10 being rock solid. It works perfectly provided the Roon server and network up, of course.
budget is approximately about the direct stream with bridge.


thx

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Showing 1 response by pmotz

I would strongly recommend you go over to the PS Audio forum which is on the PS Audio website, https://forum.psaudio.com. There is lots of discussion on the Bridge and Roon. I have the DirectStream DAC and Bridge II, but don’t use Roon so can’t offer any good advice. One thing to keep in mind is the Bridge II is a third party device, Converse Digital being the third party. PS Audio is working on a new Bridge which they will build and program, but that is a long way off.