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Sound quality of Roon

I am considering trying Roon.  I have been using my Bluesound Node but I am going to upgrade as I do enjoy streaming more and more using Tidal.  It is quite an investment to get a NUC or Nucleus and then have a separate tablet to control it all.
 

But apart from the cost I have read some people say Roon does not sound good.  Their streamer by blah blah sounds better.  Is this true?  For all that is required to use Roon, the hardware, the subscription and all, would Roon be popular if it made digital streaming sound bad?


I would love to hear people who have experience comment on this.  There is info on the Roon Labs discussion site but as you can imagine it is saying this is BS Roon sounds great.  I guess Roon as a software also has had updates, so maybe this is a thing that might have been true in the past?  

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decathlon1991
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Go with the Cary Audio DMS600, DMS650, DMS700 or the mighty Pro Series DMS800 streamer DAC with a Roon Nucleus. Very hard to beat the sound quality and the ease of use with the apps. I’ve never looked back since I have made the move. They sync beautifully. 

decathlon1991
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pcrhkr
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I liked Roon. There are many advantages if you can afford it.

In my opinion 1. The Roon interface is great.  2. There are many options it offers if you want to take advantage of them. 3. Ease of operation. 4. Nice gui interface. 5. Nice Digital EQ if needed for slight room compensation or music quality adjustment.

That being said. Due to my budget I cancelled Roon and using the lesser advanced interface for the Innuos which was recently released. As far as sound. Roon is great! Also the bluesound node 2i with a better DAC (Bifrost) is very good. Good enough for me.

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audiotroy
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itsjustme servers do sound different

 

we have sold and tested most major servers and streamers 

we have over 10 years of experience with these devices, 

we startred with mac minis and jriver

then aurender these sounded better 

we then went  to innous  these sounded far better 

we tried an sotm windows based server before this

then we found the 432Evo servers from belgium 

the 432EVO sounded even better and had the added advantage of being a modular and upgradable design.

differences in sound quality included sound staging midrange warmth low level detailing 

 

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

US. importers 432EVO Music servers 

 

 

bthemann
14 posts
 

I tried to love Roon. The UI is unquestionably superior to native Tidal and Spotify, and better than Lightning DS and the laggard, Aurender Conductor. But the platform is terribly unstable. Sudden crashes plagued all 3 of my systems (2 different cores, a homemade Nuc and a MacBook Pro.) Never found an SQ difference that would recommend Roon either. 

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