Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound

@richtruss No android device here. mconnectHD sounds good, better than roon. With mconnectHD streaming Qobuz to the Bricasti there is a wealth of detail and nuance, much better dimensionality and connection to the music. Heck, even Omnia Receiver through a NuPrime Stream9 > Bricasti leaves roon in the dust. I do prefer roon's interface and abundance of information. But sound quality first. 

I’m using a Lumin product, streaming from a Synology NAS. 
I found that I needed much updating to my music library, but am willing to “do the work”. 
There is a native UPNP server app that runs on the Synology. 
I looked at the rune set up and found it unnecessarily complicated, and I’m an IT person. Nothing in the sound path. 
 

@lalitk no don’t get me wrong made a marked improvement and quite happy. Just that streaming is not the preferred media in my listening room.

Have a great day.

@jerryg123 

Thanks for the clarification and glad to hear you’re happy with the improvements. In my system, digital streaming and files (ripped CD’s & DSD) playback has transcended Vinyl. 

What is going to sound best depends on the synergies with your existing equipment. 

My system is very revealing, IMO, and I found my Innuos Zen MkIII sounded much better with Roon running in experimental mode (one of the options they give you) than running Innuos Sense.  It is a little glitchy running it from my iPad, occasionally loses the server for a minute and sometimes skips tracks, but the SQ has everything else beat - more detailed, more top end, more dynamic, more transparency, more presence.