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Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it

I just had to post this somewhere, and their moderators won't allow it on the Roon forum.  Just so people know, it is not an open forum when it comes to comments about Roon or its stability.  

Their moderators edit and delete posts.  It can get a little Orwellian.  

There are users that have identified severe resource leaks or situations where the Roon software pegs a single core in a CPU until Roon has to restart, causing drop-outs in audio as well as very slow responsiveness.  

The moderators must all be severe fanboys.  

Take it for what it's worth.  I just want potential users to understand they may not get the most complete picture by reviewing the Roon forum.  And sure, I understand that moderators moderate.  When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. 

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yyzsantabarbara
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I have been a ROON Lifer even before the product was released, so maybe 10 years now.

A few things I have learned. 

1) If you are updating the software and things are not running as expected, then reboot the ROON Core. This has become less of an issue, and I cannot remmber the last time I rebooted.

2) If you are running hi-res streams then make sure you have enough bandwidth.

At one time I have my ROON core on the wrong side of my PowerLine adapter part of my home network. Playing hi-res resulted in intermittent drops. I moved the Core to the Ethernet side of my home network and that solved the hi-res issues for me.

3) I am using a cheap $500 DELL PC to run my Core. At one time I had 3 zones, Grouped some for DAC evaluations. I occasionally ran hi-res and I also had CONVOLUTION filters running inside the CORE. This is all heavy data processing. It worked fine with the cheap computer. 

ROON software is genius level audio code. However, it is code, and code evolves sometimes with glitches.

BTW - if anyone needs to use a BALANCE control for their system. Try ROON's and compare with an analog solution, such as a preamp. ROON's is spectacular. 

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