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Innuos Zenith MK3/ Roon

I have an Innous Zenith MK3 connected to a Mearson DAC and am using a Hegel H160 as an Amp.  I don't care for the Ipeng app.  I am interest in using roon with this system.  I downloaded the roon App. 14 day trial onto my Computer.  Roon works fine with the Computer.  I would like to use roon with the Innuos.  Roon does not seem to recognize the device even after installing the Roon App. onto the IPad and following all of the instructions.  Does this mean the Innuos is not compatible?  Do I  need to purchase the Roon Nucleus + to get it to work with my current setup?  If so how does the Nucleus integrate into my system?
  
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grannyring
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Yes Innuos Sense sounds far better than Roon! 
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fuzztone
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AND it is FREE.
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True that! 
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Having just completed a Roon trial, I can confirm that the SQ is better from my Zenith Mk3 (v2.2.3) than when Roon is enabled.  This was running with the Zenith as the Roon Core.

However, what did tempt me to persist with the Roon was the provision of DSP.  We all like to think that our perfectly balanced systems should sound perfect with every recording, but of course that's not true.  Even the best system in the best room occasionally requires a little equalization.  The parametric equalization is pretty good - though detail and transparency does suffer.

I had additionally been suffering sibilance, so tried buying a MiniDSP UMIK-1 microphone and generate a convolution setting using REW.  It didn't help really, and just seemed to cause excessive clipping with some tracks, unless I applied a -6db attenuation - which for every other track just resulted in much lowered output.

Roon does offer many features, though most to me seemed excessive.

My lesson?  Innuos's OS is simpler, has a purer path and sound quality, and has enough features to allow easy music selection.   And it's free.  If they could include a simple parametric equalisation option that doesn't impact SQ then it would be perfect.

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