Aurender is finally Roon Ready?!

I meant the internal processing. Sorry for the confusion. 

I have a roon core. I do realize the Aurender is only an end point. 

@tvad I assumed that the conductor processing will most likely be superior to Roon but was hoping to be wrong. 

@stievus first of all it doesn’t work with Aurender and second you don’t need it there. The Conductor app is really good. Roon ready capability is a good feature set expansion. If you bypass the aurender queue processing there’s most likely a compromise in sound quality but it rids you of having to manage the queue. So for more casual listening Roon should be awesome.

@carlsbad2 don’t take what I said out of context. 

@carlsbad2 the discussion we’re having here is specific to Aurender Roon integration. You must have missed this. 
I’ve used Roon for years with great results with several streamers and with others I found the native processing to sound better. So the Roon sound quality can and does vary depending on Roon integration implementation in certain streamers.

Don’t put words in my mouth. 

@stievus does Metronome come with an app? If not, then you’re limited to Audirvana, Roon and may be Mconnect. Out of the 3, only the Mconnect doesn’t require a computer to run on…it’s UPnP and is just a control app. Unfortunately it never sounded very good to me in my system and I preferred Roon over it. Besides, the Mconnect is just a super basic UI. Not even close to Roon. 
As to Audirvana, I tried and didn’t like it but that was long ago. 

@lalitk yes I’m super excited about it. Hopefully it’s a matter of days now before it rolls out to N200. Need to try and set up roon to read the SSD mounted inside my N200 when Roon rolls out. I was able to do this with the Auralic I had before. Should be awesome. 

Doing it now as I type!  System update in progress. 

It’s exactly what I thought it would be. I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
It isn’t difficult to hear at all that the Room is inferior to Aurender processing. It took me all of 10 seconds of a well known track to know. Roon is a nice to have here and will be relegated to casual listening and new music exploration duties to avoid unnecessarily cluttering the queue. It’s definitely a very welcome addition!

@mapman When you use the Conductor app the data stream flows thru the Aurender proprietary processing of the data stream that includes a large SSD cache where the final music files are stored for playback (around 250gb).
This is similar to playing back physical media except it’s even better - there are no moving parts. End result is a digital signal that is as clean as possible that is sent to the external DAC.
Using Roon turns the Aurender into a Roon end point and bypasses all Aurender processing done by the OS. I have heard similar differences when I owned Auralic streamer. The Auralic LDS sounded better than Roon. Auralic also uses caching, just not to the same extent as Aurender.
The difference isn’t difficult to hear, as I mentioned.

Here’s another downside, not for me but will be for some…if you have DSD files in your Roon library, they will be downsampled for the Aurender. Not an issue for me since I mounted the library on SSD inside the N200. Just wanted to bring that up.

Once again though, this is an awesome addition despite the slight degradation in sound quality.

I will include my roon device settings…

Fixed Volume, Volume Leveling Off, Clock Priority 1(Highest), MQA disabled. 
DSP disabled. 

That’s a cool album @tvad !

Thanks for sharing the settings! 

@tvad I streamed DSD and on the N200 display it showed as 32/352.8khz

I guess with the N200 implementation they limited streamed bitrate to above whereas on the N30S it’s a straight shot despite the settings that appear to limit it to DSD128. could just be a bug.
DSD isn’t even in a dropdown for the device settings in roon for N200.