I am not sure why the folks who are complaining about Roon support are needing Roon support. Are you folks using Innuos products? Are your devices Roon Ready? The only time I ever needed Roon support was when I ran my Roon Core on an Innuos Zenith MK3. But the Innuos was not Roon Ready, at least it wasn’t back then. After I got away from Innuos and built a miniPC/Intel NUC to run Roon Core I had zero issues. My Innuos gear was underpowered to run Roon and it crashed all the time. For you folks needing support for Roon, as an experiment, but an Intel NUC, some dual rank RAM (I suggest 32GB) and a 250-256 GB M.2 SSD from Amazon. Put it together and load Roon ROCK and run your Roon core there. Compare the performance to what you had been using. If you don’t want to stay with the NUC, then just dismantle the NUC and return all the parts to Amazon. When I did this experiment the NUC blew away my Zenith Mk3 which I then sold.
Once your get your Roon core on a proper Roon Ready device or a NUC, Roon is maintenance free. IMO. Just run the occasional updates.
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.
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@jeffseight are you sure Aurender won't adopt Roon? See this thread here, scroll down to Willy response https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/music-server-advice
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The other strong point is using various endpoints with multiple systems. (Sonore, Bryston, BS, Moon even the old and lowly Sonos ZP 90s can be used)
Its even cooler that the app on my iMac acts as and endpoint and can digitally output to the USB headphone output or my USB connected Schiit DAC for desktop speaker audio. Even the ipad can do it for remote headphone listening anywhere in the house.
I agree with others that once you get it dialed in you really don’t need that much support. Since I moved my core to an SGC i5 its been rock solid and sound close enough to my Bryston BDP pi to be good enough. Super easy to switch to the BDP for critical listening.
Also understand the frustrated people. If you dont have all the piece parts dialed in the SQ will not compare to a quality high end stand alone unit. |
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