Current quality of Rune

@sns I'm learning that my laptop is playing a bigger role than I had thought. Makes sense, though. 

My son is kinda in the "bits are bits" camp. It took him a while to hear the difference because he had convinced himself that there wouldn't be any.  It was fairly obvious to me when I first tried Roon. It was confirmed when did the comparison.  Roon did sound really good, but the Innuos is better. I love the Roon interface, but the Sense app is good, too.  I'm sure Roon sounds great in other systems. 

@erock79 its an awesome program. Tons of features, but still very easy to navigate. 

Autocorrect changed Roon to Rune.  lol  Can that be fixed?

@gkelly Yeah, that's what I've been doing.  It works great.  I wanted to see how the streamer in the dac compares to the Innuos. 

@hgeifman Thanks for the reply.  I think I've tried all of those things, but I'll try again. I like the program. I installed the remote app so I can run it with my tablet. 

@audphile1 Does mconnect work on a tablet or would I need to use it on a laptop?

My dac appears to support AirPlay; Roon, UPnP/DLNA, HQPlayer, and Spotify.  I don't use Spotify, so that's not an option. 

Roon is functioning very well. No noise between songs, etc.  The GUI is great. I like it better than the Innuos Sense app. 

I'm running it on a dedicated laptop with good speed and memory.  No issues using it with Roon. 

My son and I just did a comparison. He felt that the sq is similar, but I give the advantage to the Innuos streamer.  Things seem a little softer and less defined with Roon.  That could be the fault of the streamer built into my dac.  Idk. 

I really wanted to use Roon, but unless I have something set up incorrectly, I'll be using the Innuos Zen Mk3 streamer and it's Sense app. 

@sns If I'm understanding correctly, my laptop is the Roon core. My dac has a built in bridge, or whatever it's called. They are both connected to the network, but there is no USB connection. It works well, but I could swear it's a little softer sounding than my Innuos streamer.

I think everything is set correctly. 

@lalitk I have Roon installed on my laptop and it's running. I installed the program on my tablet as well.

Are there any particular settings that I should check? 

I'll do some homework and get more familiar with the program. 

Quick listen, it sounds good. 

@pinball101 Gustard X-30.

I'm very happy with the performance of the dac.  I upgraded from a Gustard R-26 dac. 

@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. 

@catastrofe The output on my dac is set to fixed.  I'm using the volume control on my preamp. 

@lalitk makes sense.  Given the gear that I have, I think I'm best off using the Innuos streamer. I do like the Roon GUI, but there's nothing wrong with the Sense app. 

@dougthebiker I changed the volume in Roon to fixed. It was set to "use device" which is fixed.

I don't find any equalization settings. 

Canceled my Rune, I mean Roon, free trial. I really like the program, but I don't think I could get it to sound as good as my Innuos streamer and Sense software 

I did see that my Innuos streamer has an experimental mode that would use Roon software, but use the Innuos player software.  Might get good sound quality that way, but I'm good with the Sense software, so I see no reason to try it. 

@wyoboy It's been interesting and informative. I appreciate all of the comments! 

Unfortunately, people searching for information on Roon will have to search for Rune.  Lol.  I blame my damn autocorrect...