Roon for high end audio?


I have been listening almost exclusively to CDs but want to start to get into music streaming.  Sound quality is very high on my list, and I am interested in streaming for 2 reasons; broad selection and hopefully better sound.  I am using a dbx Venue 360 with a Jeff Roland Concerto Preamp and Roland Power amp.  I have a Savant system that allows music playback in multiple rooms, controls video etc.  My Savant integrator suggested Roon. Since I am not currently into streaming, I can’t figure out if Roon is the right thing to do.  It seems like a great music server service with the ability to manage very high quality digital files, but the downstream handling of the files and conversion to analog (DAC) seems lacking.  It seems most people are using it for playback in less than audiophile situations, and compatible equipment is very limited.  Quality wise, am I better off with something like Bluenote and a high quality DAC like say, Denafrips?
kingofgix

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Better sound is a subjective opinion. Same thing with sound quality.

It can support the same formats, so why not?

If you want equal performance to a good CD player, download Jriver and enable SoX for resampling, load file into memory (before being played) and play as HDCD.

I have a music library on my laptop and files either open in foobar or Jriver.

Regarding DACs - they sound different. Buy one that claims to be accurate/neutral.