Made the Move and Not looking back!


I have streamed music thru Roon and Qobuz for about 4 years now.

My Innuos Zen 3 -Paid $2.2 new through a dealer-has been a great

product. Very responsive company. I watched them develop what is known as

Innuos Sense. A version of the Roon Product. 

Last week I said goodbye to my monthly Roon Payment and hello to Innuos.

 

After making CSV lists of the playlists I wanted to save, I pushed delete on

the Roony Tunes folks. Roon is probably fine for techies but the "No Support"

system they offer was frustrating for me. Waiting days to get help with no service.

Of course you are still paying for it.

Innuos Sense may only be available to those using their product.

Just a heads up.

OBTW- Many streamer makers claim Roon degrades the sound. Most 

end up caving to Roon just to survive. Linn cut a special deal with Roon

to avoid the quality compromise. Hats off to them.

128x128jeffseight

Hmm. I have roon and like it. I don’t use their DSP which might "degrade" the sound. I also have an Innuos streamer with Sense.

I read your post with interest until I got to the part "you still pay for it". Seems if you use Sense to control Tidal or Qobuz you wouldn’t need Roon.

Please clarify. Perhaps I don’t need to pay for roon.  Your comment that Sense is a form or Roon is intriguing.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jerry

Similar experience here with Auralic and their Lightning DS music management software. I had Roon - loved the interface and meta data. But, when I compared the exact same Qobuz files over Roon vs Lightning DS, (no processing -  so it was a fair comparison), I dropped my Roon subscription that day.  LDS sounded better. 

I’m guessing there are certain systems for which Roon is perfectly fine. And, there are some systems that are built around Roon.  But, I would never go back. Over LDS, music is much more open - there’s just more spatial information - depth and breadth.

As I thought about it more, it didn’t surprise me, though I’m sure the 1s and 0s crowd remains skeptical. Native music management systems are built around the architecture of the hardware. Buffers/cache etc are all optimized. Roon is like MSFT Windows. It has to run across all kinds of hardware. How can it be optimal for all systems?  Again, love the interface, but LDS is also more than good enough on that front. The quality of the music reproduction matters more to me.  As always, YMMV.

Best,

If you want the best streaming then buy the innuos Ethernet switch 

my brother has one and is exceptional.

Never bought into roon. First it was bluos, now it's innuos sense, both remarkable in simplicity. If you have a good os, Roon seems like an unnecessary expense.

Glad its working for you. Based on my personal experience, I am smitten with Roon.