Roon is snappy responsive now

1 x a week you should shut down your router for a minute ,No power 

then let it reboot it clears the cache and operates more fluid 

also you want better sound and faster buy a new router- modem combo 

I bought the Motorola 8702 Thst has docsis 3.1 modtolder ones still use 3.0 

the is much faster bigger processor andbuffer ,wifi too much better for tv  I useRoku. For music to stream better clearer music as I did ,most routers are 12v 

using a garbage $10wallwart   Buy a decent  LPS power supply ,it tells onthe wall wart or unit howmany volts ,they take roughly 4 amp. I bought the gemstone under $1200 for $700 ,have tested many Linial tube Audio, handles up to 8 amps great build quality and comes witha excellent Dc cable to router most others charge $150for , buying onAudiogon save $50 -$700+$30 shipping great build quality 

and streaming is much better sounding. I also but a decent Ethernet hub $600

that has a LPS ,low noise regulators and a ocxo over controlled clock ,very good value , and buy quality Ethernet cables ,the most critical going into the streamer .

everything counts to get good sound.

I’ve ran Roon, audirvana, and pure music on Mac’s for over 15 years. I’ve also had 3rd party servers like the Auralic Aries for a couple years. I’ve also tested Roon on an enterprise Linux server. My current setup is using an m1 Mac mini with a very large library and Qobuz with no issues and it’s fast. The only other setup I would run Roon on is a Linux based server probably on a 2012/2014 Mac mini or a server using a ryzen arm processor. The best technology in todays servers is the arm chip, which is an apple m1/m2/m3 or ryzen.

Roon is very flexible in how its sound can be tweaked including applying user defined EQ and/or DSP. DSP is perhaps the feature now that I could least live without. I use the DSP for room correction and canned DSP convolution filters with headphones. These are game changers and big time $$$$$ savers used right or can also easily be a seeming deal breaker if done wrong, which can easily happen given all the options to consider,

I plan to dive right into that as soon as my basic room treatment is sorted. 

Agreed, something has changed for the better.  Previously, I'd be browsing an album and when I returned to my Artists list the top row of Artist icons were blank causing me to restart my Roon Remote every single time.  That's now stopped happening.  It was a minor bug, but it was getting pretty annoying.

My experience is the exact opposite. Each time my phone locks, the roon remote app on my iphone loses connection with roon sever running on a macbook pro. When I reopen the remote app I have to restart it to resume playback control. I'm not sure what's going on but the issue may be isolated to iOS. Roon seems to work fine when I use my second macbook pro as the remote. Minor nuisance and not worth brain damage to open a ticket.