Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound

Innuos’s own Sense sounds better than Roon on my Zenith 3. Much better.  I also just learned Roon sounds just OK. I love the features and such of Roon, but the sound could be better. 

Roon folks firmly believe, or rather state, that they will not take sides in the Great Argument on SQ. However, for some reason, they keep tweaking their algorithm with most of new versions release. For example, the upcoming version of the 1.8 that is currently on Beta says among others:

Improved buffering and caching for streaming content

We’ve made changes to Roon’s buffering and caching infrastructure when playing streaming content. The new implementation is designed to use a lighter touch when interacting with your network and internet connection, making streaming less intensive for your Roon Core.

That is great news! Thanks for the heads up.  

How do I know Roon is less than ideal?

Someone else said so!

I prefer to listen for myself.  I recently implemented Roon and have not detected any degradation in signal quality.  What exactly is it that you personally are hearing (or not hearing) that needs to be "fixed"?

Roon has a user forum, you might try taking your "issue" there.  They might be more likely to "listen" in on their own forum.

I did some testing a while back: Roon vs audirvana. In the past, audirvana was the leader of streaming software IMO and during my month of testing, I thought both sounded similar, but the interface was much better using Roon.