Roon Questions

[OceanDad]

I know that several on here use Roon fairly extensively.  Does anyone have experience of combining Sonos zones with matrixed C4 audio zones in Roon ?  If so, do they all appear as Roon zones ?  Can they be combined together in a group ?

I'd be interested to hear up to date experiences of how it all works under C4.  

[South Africa C4 user]

@time2jet

[Matt Lowe]

depending on your needs i run c4 into a sonos connect and use it to broadcast to my wireless zones.

 

[DLite]

On 1/29/2022 at 5:52 PM, OceanDad said:

I know that several on here use Roon fairly extensively.  Does anyone have experience of combining Sonos zones with matrixed C4 audio zones in Roon ?  If so, do they all appear as Roon zones ?  Can they be combined together in a group ?

I'd be interested to hear up to date experiences of how it all works under C4.  

Roon will only let you group Sonos zones with other Sonos zones.  Roon will recognize and play to different types of zones in the same system, but Roon will only let you group "like with like" for synchronized playback.  

I don't have personal experience with C4 audio matrices and Roon, since we are an all-Sonos house.  However, there are people over on the Roon forums that appear to use this setup.  The folks over there that I am familiar with connect their Roon Nucleus to an external DAC via USB, and then connect the DAC to the C4 matrix. In this case, C4 would view Roon as a single source, and you'd have to handle grouping via C4 only.  (In principle, you could get two Roon sources out of a single Nucleus, because the Nuc has both a USB and an HDMI output, and the Roon driver allows you to bind the Nucleus HDMI output to anything you like.) I am not sure if there is an alternative strategy that causes each matrixed audio zone to appear as a Roon zone.