I have to throw my hat in the ring of Roon fans. I think that it is excellent. Great interface, works perfectly, randomly plays new music consistent with what I was listening to and have through that discovered new music and artists! It is stellar. I also like the writeups about the albums and have actually learned things about music that I have listened to for years! I bought a lifetime plan when it first came out and that has been a great purchase. However, as @phishhhhh4 pointed out, their tech support is below subpar. if you have a problem, you must post it on their community forum. To Roon’s credit, they do actually respond to those support posts, but it is cumbersome to post a problem, wait for a response, then respond to that, wait again, etc. Luckily, I have been able to troubleshoot any issues myself. The one thing about Roon that really is glitchy is their ARC app, which supposedly lets you stream to your iPhone when you are away from your network. It is useless. It works maybe 25% of the time, if that. Most of the time it can’t connect. it is perplexing that a free program like Plex, for example, has no problem connecting to the home server, but Roon can’t figure it out. So I usually use Plex outside of the home. But other than that, I can’t imagine another way to manage my music.
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I did some searching and didn't find any recent posts about Roon. I want to try streaming with my new dac which is made to work with Roon.
I'm able to stream with Audivarna which I had used previously. It sounds good, but there is a glitch that causes loud static when switching songs. After lots of Googling, I've failed to come up with a fix.
I'll do the free trial and try Roon, but I wanted to get people's opinion on Roon. I've read that the interface is one of the best. Is it reliable? Good sound quality? I've read that Audivarna sounds better, but those could be old comments.
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@flkin , my experience is completely different. I consider my system to be “higher end” . . . Not the highest, but very good, and Roon definitely does not sound “mediocre.” I don’t use any fancy settings, it is sounds just great. I have CAT8 from my Upscale Audio RS9 server to my MSB Discrete DAC and have only been please with the way it sounds. But I agree with you that Roon is the pinnacle of music discovery and management, and I like the way that it handles Tidal, Qobuz and my large digitized album collection on my music server. And you can easily choose between the several versions of classic albums. |