Current quality of Rune

@sls883  I have found the secret to great SQ in Roon is to turn off any equalization or volume control in Roon.  Don’t let it mess with the signal at all and it’s great.  IMHO.

@dougthebiker I changed the volume in Roon to fixed. It was set to "use device" which is fixed.

I don't find any equalization settings. 

@lalitk makes sense.  Given the gear that I have, I think I'm best off using the Innuos streamer. I do like the Roon GUI, but there's nothing wrong with the Sense app. 

I’m a big Roon fan, running the Nucleus + core. All digital media is on the internal hard drive, it is reliable, streams to my primary system and to any other system with a Roon compatible device attached. I use Roon Arc anywhere in the world to access my library plus Quboz, Tidal. Fantastic digital solution. 

@sls883 You're correct on everything, bridge in dac is endpoint or actual streamer. Agree with the others here, Innuos should be superior.

Also agree turning off many of these 'extras' with Roon is good, no volume leveling, throttle library analysis, no dsp. All these extras only add to work processor in streamer has to do, adds noise and may cause glitches if processor stressed. This also part of reason why general purpose computers not good as streamers, the operating systems alone take up far more processor resources than need be, dedicated streamers have operating systems optimized for streaming only, processor barely working which means low noise and no glitches. And I could go on and on about optimizing interfaces such as ethernet, usb, I2S, etc. general service computers don't give a crap about any of this, serious audio streamers pay great attention to all this.