Streamer/Server to replace Innuos Zenith

A few weeks back I logged a ticket with Innuos about anomalies with Tidal integration. I’d been seeing inconsistencies with playlists, favorites, missing tracks and other unusual behavior. I got an email from Nuno at Innuos saying issues similar to the ones I reported have been fixed in 2.0.6. I updated my Zenith mk3 a couple days ago and am happy to report that fixes have in fact been made. Seems like there are some improvements with server connectivity as well? The connection seems to be more persistent and reconnects are faster. Still a long way to go to get to Roon functionality, but good on them for the updates and progress; very encouraging.

Innuos are quite clear that they use lower powered chips to achieve lesser noise interference and better sound quality. Obviously that will run counter Roon‘s processor-heavy design including DSP. The fact of the matter though is that Innuos Squeezebox implementation using IPeng or InnuOS 2.0 sounds better than Roon driven by their own Nucleus+  So those married to Roon have to account for the above.

I used to agree wholeheartedly with the above post regarding Sense 2.0 vs Roon. This is no longer true with Roon’s latest update.

@grannyring So have you found that Roon 1.8 with the September update is now on par with Roon Sense?

@grannyring Sorry I meant Innuos Sense!