I measured Mytek’s Brooklyn Bridge II Roon Core using my Audio Precision SYS2722 system.1 I powered up the Mytek then connected it to my router with an Ethernet cable. However, the processor remained inert—it needed to be powered up after the Ethernet connection had been made. When I opened the Roon 2.0 app on my iPad mini, Roon identified two Brooklyn Bridge IIs in the Audio Settings window, one a generic ALSA device, the other a networked audio device not yet certified. I managed to enable the latter.
The Brooklyn Bridge II was recognized as a Roon core. I activated it, but when I tried to send audio to the Mytek nothing happened, because, as I learned, only one Roon core can be active in a system; I needed to unauthorize my network-connected Nucleus+ as Roon core, log out of my Roon account, then log back in and select the Brooklyn Bridge II as core. I followed the instructions in the manual to use Roon to pair the Brooklyn Bridge II with an essential Mytek extension file. The processor then requested to update its firmware to v1.0.8.
Once the update had been installed, I started the
