Sound quality of Roon

@jjss49

This is actually a great question. I believe that it has to do with the shorter signal path (UPnP App-> Player -> Internal SSD) vs Roon which requires a lot of back-and-forth traffic between core, player, etc.  When you condition for good power, low noise, and jitter, issues are reduced a lot, but not 100%.  Of course, this is just speculation based on a purely pragmatic approach.  Also consider that while there is a difference that most will be able to tell easily, it is between great and greater, no bad choices IMO.

Vast, vast majority of Roon issues are either user or network issues, I've not had single Roon caused issue in a few years of using it, only time I had issues, my network to blame. Roon forums will also prove this out, Roon pretty much as foolproof as it gets.

Sorry but I couldn’t disagree more with this.  Roon is great but those who post saying they’ve never had a problem are just lucky.  Plenty of power users have had issues too.  If it’s a network issue, why does restarting the software resolve it temporarily?

I agree that statement that is the implementation not the software that causes issues.  How can the Alsace software have issues with person a but the vast majority do not?  I am on all the roon sites including Facebook groups.  It’s NEVER the NUC or Nucleus.  It’s always someone with crappy network or some old PC or MAC.  I support software for 12000+ users.  All different types.  IStandard install that works on 95% of the PCs that share the same image but the few that don’t which always seem to a VP or other VIP break it’s ALWAYS something on the PC. Drivers or something.  It’s a singe pc running many many apps and various things a user downloads.  Roon or any software writers cannot account for the 10 million variations out there.   If you like roon on your trial on your PC invest 700 and get a NUC loaded. Done 

Observation of Roon forums with those having issues, one will find problems nearly 100% of time individual in nature. Extremely rare to find a single issue universal to a particular version of Roon.

If there was a problem with a particular iteration of Roon wouldn't you think this would affect all or nearly all users of Roon!

Having read countless threads discussing digital sound quality, can anyone corroborate or counter what @blisshifi is saying? It seems to me the dac and speakers are the key factors in resolution not really anything else assuming bandwidth is flowing and adequate.