To Roon or not to Roon?

Roon is by far the single most important element of my various systems. It is what links them, unites them. I use it to distribute music to different rooms, to understand the paths the signal is taking, to set different EQs for different rooms, and to have the same view of my music wherever I go.  I find it wonderful and I’d be lost without it. 

I tried to use Roon again and followed the instructions as told to me by a Roon rep by email and not only did it not work for me it screwed up my Auralic app which required to be deleted and reinstalled. I really would like to try Roon but it doesn’t seem to work for me. It will play on my google speakers if enabled, my Sony TV if enabled and my computer speakers if enabled but not my Auralic Aries G2.1 even when enabled. I really want to at least try Roon for myself and I don’t mind the fee for it but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Any advice to get Roon working would be appreciated.

Love Roon and the latest update is simply awesome.  Just a dream to use and to organize my music. Never had a single problem or glitch.  I use mine with an Innuos Zenith and they play well together. 

The convenience and sound quality of Roon has spoiled me so I rarely spin anything.  My primary Roon endpoint is an Ayre QX-5, secondary a Senore ultraRendu, both on a Google MESH variant of the Ethernet.  

I’m one of those users who found Lighting DS to sound significantly better than Roon through my Aries G2.  I dropped my Roon subscription.  While I somewhat miss the UI, I find what I’m looking for easily enough and have more than enough metadata through LDS anyway.   

For a few posters above considering the Auralic Aries G2, I found it a big step up from other streamers I own or have owned.  I know of a dealer (biased yes - but he sells other brands) who says it handily betters pretty much everything regardless of price and uses it in front of 6 and even 7 figure systems. I can’t confirm that.  However, I can confirm, it’s very, very good.  
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