dCS Mosaic Vs Roon Nucleus Plus - Titan


Greetings, I have a Rossini dCS Apex which works very well with the Mosaic app.
I'm curious to know if anyone here has been able to compare dCS Mosaic with Roon Nucleus Plus, also with the new Titan model.

avl1947

I totally agree with geardaddie.  I have no experience with the Mosiac app, but I  absolutely love my Roon Nucleus Plus with no plans on replacing it with the new Titan.  One thing I did do that was extremely effective in making my Roon Nucleus Plus quieter, therefore raising it's level of performance, was to add a neat little tweak called called, ifi Lan iSilencer.  I actually put one of the iSilencers on all three of the ethernet cables in my audio system to great effect.  Happy listening. 

I don’t have experience with Mosaic but I compared Roon to several native apps   While Roon is unbeatable when it comes to UI/UX, it falls short sonically in most cases when compared to streamer apps and proprietary processing. 

I also highly doubt there’s a sonic difference between Roon Nucleus models if you only use those as Roon Core without leveraging Roon DSP (that’s when processing power comes into play and you can benefit from an upper tier model).
To do Roon the right way I’d look into streamers that were also designed with a music server/Roon Core functionality in mind. Grimm MU1 is one example.

On my Nucleus Plus I first used an ifi Lan iSilencer which increased the performance but later replaced it with a SmoothLAN network filter which took it to another level   After breaking in detail, soundstage and clarity was at another level 

If you put all the right components in the chain ROON can still match the SQ.

I agree, Roon can sound just as good as anything else when done right. A lot of people I know default to an attitude where something that is more trouble to use sounds better to them. Sort of like vinyl where the ritual outshines the actual sound. People seem to feel like the sacrifice in usability compared to Roon makes some other streaming platforms sound better. I disagree but to each their own.