Has anyone used the new Innuos 2.0 Sense music app? Compared it to Roon?

@grannyring, were you running Roon core on your Zenith? Was there anything you did prior to updating to 2.0 (backup, reindex)? Did it go smoothly? I’m going to be be taking the plunge soon...also, how does the Sense interface compare with Roon? I would appreciate any insights you can provide, thanks!

Just updated to 2.0.4. and the new Sense app. Aside from a small glitch getting Tidal reconnected it was a breeze. Listened to a couple of tracks and it sounds pretty great! Nice looking interface with a volume control...can't wait to dig in deeper tonight. Big win for Innuos and the Innuos user community.

@lalitk, I can attest to the fact that turning on DSP caused a negative outcome when running the core on my Zenith. My journey was from Bluesound to Innuos running Roon so overall I there was an uptick in SQ but the big attraction for me was the Roon UI. I have been a user for just under a year and a half and really got to like the interface and the way that it managed the content I like to listen to, but more than that, I just love the connectivity Roon exposes between artist. There's a lot of capability to mine out details and discover new artists and music which has been nothing short of fantastic.

My recent DAC upgrade was transformational and it continues to evolve so quantifying the SQ change from Roon to Sense is difficult to gauge. I will say that the music my system is making right now is intoxicating to point where I find it difficult to walk away. Evening listening sessions are going later in the night and in some cases into the next day. On the downside the Sense UI looks Roonish but it isn't there yet. I subscribe to Tidal and so streamed content and my ripped library is not integrated yet. There is also less in the way of reviews and liner note type meta data but Innuos says they are working on it. Right now it feels like Christmas in July.

Not sure if 2.0.7 is better as my auditory memory stinks, but I can confirm that my system sounds better than ever and I am very pleased with the incremental progress Innuos are making with the functionality and stability of the Sense app. They are still not on par with Roon but they are making improvements that have remedied a lot of the problems with server connectivity, Tidal playlists and favorites. Sense is evolving into a really solid application and represents some serious value-add for Innuos owners. 

rc,
We are in the same boat, my Roon subscription ends in March. I was close to buying a lifetime subscription but there was news about Innuos building their own app so I held off. I do love the functionality of Roon but like you I loaded Sense a few weeks after it was released and haven't looked back. I've provided some feedback to Innuos and they do seem to be working hard on it. I updated my DAC right before switching to Sense so it is hard to know what improvements are due to the DAC and what might be associated with the app, but to be honest I don't care. I do know my systems sounds great and am thrilled that Sense has evolved past the point point of being clumsy and frustrating. If they can continue improving the functionality and maintain or improve the SQ, it is a huge win for us and them. The value proposition of their gear will be through the roof compared to what it was prior to the availability of Sense.

The only issues I ever saw with Roon came when I engaged DSP; so I turned it off. I do hope that Sense adopts the machine learning or whatever logic Roon uses to suggest new music based on history. There are also some other features like "play from here" that sense doesn't have yet or maybe I've not figured it out. Perhaps the best Roon feature is how it abstracts the underlying music sources and presents them as a single library. Sense does provide the ability to create playlist using both sources but they are still managed as separate resources. They seem to be going in the unified direction as search functions can be specific to one or all which is all good IMO.