I must say that I agree with Grannyring, I have tried Roon for many years and it is the best music mgmt software yet available. That said, however, I believe it falls short of the mark as it relates to SQ. Not bad but certainly not setting any benchmarks. That's a shame, because I believe that Roon is capable of making significant improvements in SQ but for whatever reason has not made this a high priority. Now that I said that, let me explain my experience with my system and other high end systems that I listen to frequently from my audiophile friends. My system consists for an Innuos Zenth Mk II SE, Innuos Phoenix reclocker, Optical Module, Etheregen, Ansuz C2 power distribution and cables etc. I have used Roon, Ipeng9, Euphony, Audiavarna (not all on my server) but on other very high end servers with high end LPS. My experience has been that the Innuos OS sounds significantly better than Roon on my server and Euphony sounded better as well on other high end servers I have done critical listing on. The great thing about Innuos as a company, is that they are very committed to continued improvement of their software and hardware; specifically as it relates to function, features and in particular, sound quality. Their customer service is excellent as well. I am pleased with the investment I have made and continue to increase my enjoyment and satisfaction with every new update. I should have mentioned previously, that I am not a dealer, nor have any financial interest in any way with Innuos. I hope this was helpful.
Sound quality of Roon
I am considering trying Roon. I have been using my Bluesound Node but I am going to upgrade as I do enjoy streaming more and more using Tidal. It is quite an investment to get a NUC or Nucleus and then have a separate tablet to control it all.
But apart from the cost I have read some people say Roon does not sound good. Their streamer by blah blah sounds better. Is this true? For all that is required to use Roon, the hardware, the subscription and all, would Roon be popular if it made digital streaming sound bad?
I would love to hear people who have experience comment on this. There is info on the Roon Labs discussion site but as you can imagine it is saying this is BS Roon sounds great. I guess Roon as a software also has had updates, so maybe this is a thing that might have been true in the past?