I was looking for an inexpensive solution to drive IEMs and headphones in our bedroom. Received both this week. I am impressed. Running through Roon. Driving Meze 109 Pro headphones and Dunu SA6 Mk2 with ease. Not difficult to set up. Couple of quirks with WiFi and Roon, but got things going in 5 minutes or less including Roon controlled volume and EQ. Soundstage and quality is impressive, even when compared to gear in my listening room that costs 10X to 25X as much. Great spare room gear. Would not recommend for those of you who are not using Roon or another transport system.
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Is Roon support still in beta?
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It appears so. But it wasn’t very hard to do the workaround. In Roon it appears as a Fiio device under a different name and it can be enabled. I renamed it and it all works just fine. Qobuz plays at full resolution.
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Has anyone tried the K11 r2r? How does it stack up to more expensive r2r dacs?
Hi. I have the SR11 Streamer feeding the K11 r2r as a system on my nightstand. Overall I am happy with this combination. As others have indicated, as an r2r design there can be a touch of background noise. Sometimes I notice it and sometimes I don’t. The SR11 firmware was just updated to integrate better with Roon (it’s Roon ready). And, the overall operating features seem to work better on this upgrade. I am driving four different brands of IEMs as well as Meze Pro 109s and it is easily driving all options. I think the amplification in my Matrix Audio iPro-4 is better, however that could be in my head as I haven’t done a one-on-one comparison in the same room. I tried my closed back high impedance stage/recording headphones as well and they did not suffer at all on the K11rTr. Feel free to ask me more specific questions. I hope this is helpful.
Thanks for the response. How does it compare to other dacs? Is this a good dac to try r2r?
It seems fine with the SR11. I haven’t paired it with anything else so I really can’t say. Better than a dongle for listening. I am serving through Roon on all my systems.To be more specific, the sound stage is good, the frequency range is also good, and the amp section is not clipping at any reasonable listening volume.Oh, and I have only been using it in OS mode. And, compared to anything else for a “nightstand system” the combination of the SR11 and K11 r2r is dirt cheap when wanting to drive a 4.4mm balanced output.
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