Current quality of Rune

This static problem may not be related to Roon.  It's often a problem withe the DAC not syncing the right bit rate.  For instance, playing 96/24 and then switching to 44/16.  I've had some luck fixing this a couple of different ways. You can upsample everything to the same bit rate, for instance, 96/24.  Then your DAC never has to switch.  It's not a bad approach as some DACs simply perform better at higher sample rates. 

The other approach is to go into the advanced (I think) settings of your DAC and increase the inter song delay.  Also worth checking you have the correct maximum sample rates.

@sls883 

Running Roon on a laptop is what I consider a basic set up. A good way to determine if you can get used Roon app interface and its features. If you like the Roon user interface (UI) then you can look into commercially successful hardware to take full advantage of its potential. I would read up on @sns posts. He has pretty much laid out the road map for anyone who wants to learn, build a SOTA streaming experience using Roon. 

Some folks will make their case that running Roon render and server separately will yield the best SQ. That’s not my experIence. To my earlier comment, the devil is in the details. If you pick a component that has managed to carefully execute both functionalities (end point + server) in one box then running a Roon server remotely is not necessary and would also keep things simple. 

I am using a one box purpose Roon render/server + DAC that allows me to take full advantage of Roon features and renders amazing sound quality. 

@erik_squires Thanks for the reply. The static problem is with Audivarna. I had the same issue with my Gustard R26 dac. I did some internet searching, and it seems to happen to a number of people with no simple solution.

I have Roon working and it's pretty nice. No clicks or static between songs. The gui is great and I'm just getting familiar with it.  I can see why people like it.

Once I have Roon optimized, I'll do a comparison with it connected through my dac and compare to my Innuos Zen Mk3 streamer. 

@lalitk It's working well. I love the gui. 

At some point, I'll do a comparison with my Innuos streamer, but everything sounds good. If the Innuos streamer sounds better, I'll just use it. 

OK, correct menu items are "Device Setup" then "Resync Delay"

That will probably fix most problems. 

Under Show Avanced options however you should check the maximums to ensure that Roon doesn't think your DAC can do what it cannot, and also worth setting the buffer size to maximum.  This slightly increases the time to play the first track but also makes your DAC less sensitive to network issues.