OK. First post. Everybody's musical journey is different. We all have different setups in different rooms. It's about you. We learn from each other but it's about you. I am not trying to over complicate things, although I might be past that point. I use 2 Roon Nucleus devices, (one a Nucleus Plus) with a lifetime subscription. The other is just as a streamer into a Massdrop Airist R2R dac (yup). The other (Plus) is the core. I also use a Lumin X1. Was going to sell the Nucleus but decided to try it on the Airist dac. Well now the Airist sounds as good as the Lumin. Different but just as good. Roon is no joke. Get a Nucleus and a great dac and you will be done. All updates are automatic. Features out the wazoo. I believe that once you reach a certain plateau, a lot of the things we buy in this hobby are just different, not necessarily better. The thing is trying to find out what works for you. For me Roon is possibly the most important cog in my machine.
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?