Streamer question

mahler123

I had the Bryston BDP3.  Sounds great but buggy, very difficult to operate.  Sold it to pay for my Melco

That's interesting. What you describe was my experience with Aurender. I dumped it in favor of the Bryston BDP-3, which has worked very well for me. I do use Rigelian.

You can also buy an Intel NUC or a similar computer and install Roon on it. That would be similar to the systems you mentioned but possibly cheaper or with better performance. 

https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/roon-optimized-core-kit

" That's interesting. What you describe was my experience with Aurender. I dumped it in favor of the Bryston BDP-3, which has worked very well for me. I do use Rigelian. "
@cleeds Can you configure Rigelian to stream a music service like Qobuz?  Or do you just listen to your own library?

As a former owner of an Innuos Zenith Mk3, I believe that the combined Roon core server/streamer market is very overpriced. I sold it, and replaced it with a fanless Azulle Inspire i5 mini PC with ROCK installed.  I will be selling this soon, as for fun,  I upgraded it to an Intel NUC10 i7 in an fanless Akasa case. This runs my Roon core and the streamer is separated in a different unit. The SQ is fantastic. Roon remote and Roon run quicker and better. Plus it is a satisfying little DIY project. 

Cleeds   I used Rigelian with the Bryston BDP-3.  It definitely was an improvement over Manic Moose, but ultimately there were many days Bryston just wouldn’t play nice, and just tired of it all.  There were may times, usually Sunday afternoon, when the whole Bryston site was down, and then Rigelian won’t work.  Why doesn’t Bryston just use an App?