MSB Renderer Setups

[Robnpg]

Would like to know about MSB users with Renderers in place. What are Your setups like to feed the Renderer? What has your journey been like getting there? Would you do things differently?

 

[asiufy]

The beauty of the Renderer is that it doesn't take much to get great sound.
I use an SoTM switch, and last week I got the new DJM Filter (sucessor to their popular Gigafoil), very nice unit, much better than the original.
Roon Core can either be the store's Innuos server or my Mac (that hosts my own music collection).
A good network cable helps, and I'm using Kubala-Sosna there, but just for the "last" cable, between the DJM filter and the Renderer.

HTH!
Alex

 

[Young Skywalker]

I am a long term user of the Renderer V2 module. Initially, it was installed in my Reference DAC and it now resides in my Reference Digital Director which is galvanically isolated from the Reference DAC. My Renderer module takes an ethernet cable from a wall plate that is wired back to a remotely-located commercial grade network switch fed by a Ubiquiti Amplifi mesh router. My Roon Nucleus Plus resides on the same hard wired network. No issues with sound quality at all. Could it be improved with thousands of dollars spent on linear power supplies and other isolation gizmos that purport to do exactly what the MSB Digital Director does? Perhaps, although I am very skeptical. Do I care at this point? No.

 

[Brucemck2]

I’ve got a Reference with a Digital Director. The sonics fed by an Antipodes K50 outputting AES/EBU are materially better than the same upstream chain feed into the Renderer. (Physical files are resident on the K50. Playbook via Roon. SwitchX as primary upstream feed.)

 

[Robnpg]

I’ve got a Reference with a Digital Director. The sonics fed by an Antipodes K50 outputting AES/EBU are materially better than the same upstream chain feed into the Renderer. (Physical files are resident on the K50. Playbook via Roon. SwitchX as primary upstream feed.)

Awesome. So you have an aes input on your director then? And you prefer that over the renderer? cool