Would I benefit with Roon?

I think among the best features of Roon is the music discovery and automatic metadata handling.  The ability to integrate your personal library with your online libraries.

DSP is of course good too.

The downsides is another subscription, and that you often need separate hardware to act as the roon server.

After years of frustration with apps from numerous streamer manufacturers I eventually succumbed and subscribed to Roon, principally for one reason - because it is the only app I know which catalogues classical albums properly. Roon does other things too most of which I have no idea how to use and their customer service is next to non existent, relying mainly on responses from other subscribers. If you don't have a large classical album content in your streamer library and don't need the DSP you probably don't need Roon.

it really depends  on what you want to achieve, 

we are a roon, and server dealer, and a bluesound dealer, as well 

In terms of sound quality a better roon server feeding a dac will outperform the Node both as a streamer or as an all in one as well.

Roon is an amazing interface. 

Davev and Troy

audio intellect NJ 

Roon dealer 432evo roon core dealer and bluesound dealer.

One advantage of Roon is that it is hardware independent in the sense that it eliminates the use of proprietary apps for accessing content so a hardware change doesn't require having to use a different manufacturers app. That and the fact that Roon's interface is superb.

Initially I wasn’t sold on ROON, another subscription, costs etc. After using it for over a year, Id be hard pressed to go back. The way it manages my music is on my NAS is outstanding and gives you a tremendous amount of control over the metadata. The information that I can read about the albums I stream is way more than just entertaining and is something I now rely on and enjoy. The way it interfaces with Quobuz is amazing using the ROON radio function. I haven’t used its DSP but that’s just another bonus. What finally pushed me to go with ROON was how buggy the blu os software was getting. It was driving me crazy. So going from blu os to ROON would be a huge upgrade in my opinion.