Current quality of Rune

roon can sound magnificent it does depends on how you run it and how you connect it to your dac.

if you are connecting to your Dac via USB, then the quality of the server absolutely matters 

we were Importing the 432evo servers from Belgium which were designed to be a Roon core as well as delivering an ultra clean noise free Usb output to your Dac.

the 432evo servers combine a proprietary low latency operating system compartmentalized to run roon in its own cpu core with a state of the art clock  and USB cards and two outboard linear power supplies all designed to eliminate radiated noise,\.

the result is a much more analog sound from your Dac.

Dave and Troy

audio intellect NJ

Roon specialists and $#2evo dealers

I’ve subscribed to ROON with Tidal and Qobuz for around 18 months and I’m never going back…

Sound quality is excellent and “ROON Radio” new music discovery algorithm is in my opinion the best I e experienced yet.

Lifetime subscription is looming!

In my experience, the Innuous and Aurender apps sound better than Roon, but with Roon I can use the DSP function to correct for room/speaker interactions which results in a better sound.

I also think Roon has a much better UI and discovery mode.

Out of curiosity, what is your DAC?

@pourdecisions and others using Roon dsp, you can do far better dsp with HQPlayer. One of my streamers allows 1/2 hour auditions of HQPlayer, so this compared to Roon no contest, Roon opaque, artificial sound quality. One has to be aware using dsp requires tons of processor resources which may stress processor,result noise, glitches.