Music Server Advice

lalitk

If you don’t wanna give up on ROON then consider the alternative from CAD’s CAT, Grimm Audio - MU1 and one of many Wolf Audio offerings. I was at AXPONA recently and I got to hear all the server/streamers from the top names, including EVO432, Auralic (full stack with clock) Innuos Statement and Aurender N30SA.

I am also a lifetime ROON subscriber but stream through Aurender 99.9% of the time. Once you done messing around with ROON, consider a Aurender N200 or N20 and call it a day :-) 

I am also interested in the Grimm Audio - MU1,  Aurender N200, or N20. 

I have never been able to audition these fine pieces of equipment and would be very interested if you could give us a detailed explanation of your observations with your experienced ears on what you heard at AXPONA.  I have the equipment that could easily benefit from their abilities.  Thank you. 

I casually mentioned Computer Audio Design’s CAT in my last post. This is a relatively new product that doesn’t get lot of press here. If you mind extra boxes and added cost, CAT server is worth check out with an external power supply and one of the CAD grounding module. 
https://www.computeraudiodesign.com/cad-cat/

dinov, I choose the D-05x over, at the time, N-05 because of the higher DSD rate and other improvements. I also use fiber opt tx/rx ethernet connection.

I stream music from the internet via Roon almost 100% of the time because it’s simple and convenient. 

You might want to look at the Memory Player.  I have a custom server / streamer built by Sam, super happy with the Memory Player. Below is a link to a newer version

https://www.thememoryplayer.net/general-1-1