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Hermes owner's manual
Updated 11-03-2020
is a trade mark of Roon labs

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  • Page 1 Hermes owner’s manual Updated 11-03-2020 is a trade mark of Roon labs...
  • Page 2 HERMES enables you to stream high res music files from network attached storage, online streaming services through the powerful ROON platform or others, outputting bit perfect audio direct to your DAC. The HERMES By Sonnet Digital Audio comes with all the connections an audiophile can wish for, and when hooking it up to your network it is a plug and play device.

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    Please contact Sonnet Digital Audio if you have any questions not addressed in this guide. 13. Sonnet Digital Audio cannot be held accountable and/or responsible for any form of damage or health issues inflicted to you, other people, pets, companies and non-living objects, that are caused by any form of usage of the product which is not described in this manual.
  • Page 4 Optical output: Use an optical (Toslink) cable to use the optical Output. The optical Ouput can be used for sampling rates up to 96 kHz. Coaxial Ouput: A 75 Ohm coaxial cable should be used to connect the Hermes to your dac. To avoid ground loops it has a galvanic isolation...
  • Page 5 New technology is used to make the I2S data format more reliable. Actually this format was made for internal use and not able to drive long data lines. Sonnet is using a kind of data transport based on the typical impedance of a standard UTP cable. By using this technology it is important that both transmitter and receiver is made for this quite heavy load of 100 Ohms.
  • Page 6 Operating Remark: When the Hermes is fully connected and switched to ”on” for the very first time, it can take quite a long time before the Hermes is operational as the latest updates should be installed. During this update period of the Hermes it should avoided to switch the device “Off”...
  • Page 7 The next indication is “Network Active” By default the Hermes is getting an IP address based on DHCP. As mentioned above during the very first time it can take a long time before the Hermes is operational as it is looking for updates and should never switched Off.
  • Page 8 Operating How to make the Hermes visible in Roon When the Hermes is connected and ready for use and shows you “system ready” it should be visible in Roon Roon settings  Start your Roon control interface (Windows, Mac or tablet) ...
  • Page 9 The current presentation is just an example but can be different. It shows all available Roon systems in your network  Enable the Hermes in your Roon network and give it a name for the area in use like for instance “living room” or “kitchen” ...
  • Page 10 Operating  You are now able to play music by selecting an album or track  The indication on the display will change from “System ready” to “Playing Music”  The sign “Playing Music” will also be visible between two tracks. Only in those cases that the gap between two tracks is longer than 15 seconds the display will show ”No music data”...

  • Page 11: Menu Options

    Menu options Like our other products it is possible to switch off the display after a certain time. When set in this mode , the display only will show you the startup cycle but will be blank after 15 seconds in case of playing music. Only when there is a real error like for instance a network problem or that there is no music playing for long time the display will tell you.

  • Page 12: Technical Specs

    Technical specs. Working principle: Linux based Roon ready end point Power supply: 10 VA Power consumption: Standby < 1 Watt Full operation 6 Watts Power requirements: 110-240VAC 60/50Hz Inputs: Lan (local area network) max. 100 Mbps Outputs: 1x optical Toslink, 1x RCA coax, 1x AES/EBU and I2S. Sampling frequency: Optical : 44.1 - 96 kHz sampling.
  • Page 13 Company info. Sonnet Digital Audio BV Daviottenweg 9-11, 5222 BH 's-Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Phone: sales office: +31(0)36-7856259 Email: info@sonnet-audio.com Website: https://www.sonnet-audio.com Chamber of commerce s'Hertogenbosch: 75452081 BTW / VAT: NL860288110B01 is a trade mark of Roon labs...