Roon hq player


Hi I use a t+a sd 3100 hv dac connected to a wolf audio red wolf 2 sx streamer  via a nordost Valhalla 2 usb cable . I use roon and play dsd 512 files thru this.

Techs at t+ a recommended using the roon hq player upsampling audio to dsd 1024 to achieve the best sound from the sd 3100 hv .

My wolf and other streamers like taiko and innuos don’t have the computing power to run roon hq player and upsample to dsd 1024 .

They recommend building a super computer for audio with a powerful processor, audio and video card which would require a big box, power supply and fans.They recommend installing this along with the nas in a separate room from the sound system and hooking it to my dac via the home network .This they say playing roon hq will beat any stand alone streamer cause of the functionality of the roon hq player.

Does anyone have experience comparing roon with roon hq.

Is this supercomputer going to be an upgrade or will it be decrimental to the sound.

Thanks in advance

 

newtoncr

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@jgoldrick i looked at the forum and I couldn’t find any comparison between a computer playing roon hq vs a high end streamer playing roon 

@audiotroy 

that’s what I had believed too, till I heard from experts from t+a.

I guess I will have to try it and then compare it with the wolf and see which sounds better to me in my room.