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Roon Sound Quality

So I finally retired my stalwart Logitech Touch in my main rig and replaced it with a Bryston BDP-1, a nominal but worthwhile upgrade (the Touch remains an outstanding product in my opinion). I am running the Bryston using Squeezelite sever as an endpoint because I still have 3 other Logitech zone players throughout the house and I am very familiar with the interface and love the flexibility and convenience. My question is: would moving on to the Roon server platform give a noticeable sound quality improvement over LMS? I hear good things about Roon but unless there is a qualitative SQ improvement, I would stick to my current platform. I’m not (at this time) looking to do DSD or MQA, so these are not decision points for me. Thoughts?
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audioengr
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Depends mostly on jitter. If you are using a USB interface or S/PDIF now and go to an integrated Ethernet interface, the jitter may be lower.  It is on my products.  With Ethernet though, you must ground the DC common on your router if you go wired.

If you are still using USB, then all bets are off.  The software typically is too involved with volume control DSP etc..

Steve N.

Empirical Audio


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