Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound

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.

My experiences are exactly the same @dougthebiker !

This was my second time around with Innuos, in about a year, but I did notice the Roon Squeezelite Experimental mode is much more stable this time compared to the last time. Almost flawless 

Objective measurements are a tool to get better sound quality but they don’t constitute better sound quality. Measurements do not represent sound quality in its totality. In the end if it sounds better, it is better. Or if it sounds worse, it is worse.

Agreed. If Roon sounds worse to the streamer maker, then to them it is worse. We all have personal truths. We also benefit from experience, which requires an open mind to try different things. If the OP wants to decide for themself if Roon degrades sound quality, they can try different software and compare. They (and anyone in general) would be better served by doing so than taking anothers word for truth.

I  have heard Aurender having a bias against Roon,

 your server,dac hub has a lot to do with the final outcome .

my dedicated server I built ,uptone audio hub ,New Denafrips Terminator2, with reclocker is incredibly good And is very natural sounding ,=Analog .

iits actually a T+  for less $$  for  under $5 k  a Steal, prices going up Tonight though what % we will see.

My ROON Core is located in my ROON Nucleus Rev B. All it does is allow me to choose between which music on Tidal or Qobuz that I would like to hear. The Nucleus has its own linear power supply, and has RFI eliminating filters front and back, which makes for a pretty clean signal before it travels into my Chord Hugo M Scaler and then to my TT2 DAC. Does it sound as good as any another streaming software being run through a dCS Vivaldi stack? Probably not. But it does sound as good as most high end CD transport or vinyl system that I’ve heard. What makes ROON great is its convenience and ease of use. Quibbling about perceived sound quality issues up in this rarified audiophile air is mildly interesting, but not the most important thing to discuss IMO. I don’t believe that the sound engineers at ROON are trying to cut any corners when it comes to providing the best product possible. But by all means if something sounds better to you, then use it and don’t look back.