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.
Current quality of Rune
I did some searching and didn't find any recent posts about Roon. I want to try streaming with my new dac which is made to work with Roon.
I'm able to stream with Audivarna which I had used previously. It sounds good, but there is a glitch that causes loud static when switching songs. After lots of Googling, I've failed to come up with a fix.
I'll do the free trial and try Roon, but I wanted to get people's opinion on Roon. I've read that the interface is one of the best. Is it reliable? Good sound quality? I've read that Audivarna sounds better, but those could be old comments.
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@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.
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@sns I'm learning that my laptop is playing a bigger role than I had thought. Makes sense, though. My son is kinda in the "bits are bits" camp. It took him a while to hear the difference because he had convinced himself that there wouldn't be any. It was fairly obvious to me when I first tried Roon. It was confirmed when did the comparison. Roon did sound really good, but the Innuos is better. I love the Roon interface, but the Sense app is good, too. I'm sure Roon sounds great in other systems. |
@erock79 its an awesome program. Tons of features, but still very easy to navigate. |
Don't know if this still holds true for Innuos, but Innuos used to be in minimal processor low noise camp, other streamer manufacturers are in fast, powerful processor low latency camp. Roon requires more processor resources, works and sounds better with fast processor low latency camp streamers. Makes sense that sense app sounds better in Innuos streamer, that app designed specifically for their philosophy. |
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