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?  

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Showing 1 response by rms456

Roon's database is quite a problem due to its size. For my library of 8TB files, Roon database was 50-60 GB. Jriver is a fraction of that, as well as Minimserver. With a Lumïn U1, the best results were with the native app and Minimserver as the front end, I'm putting down to less processing by the Win10 LTSC  file server.

Roon has artwork embedded in the database as well as metadata for music which it thought better than what you entered and some work, usually to correct this behaviour was tedious and annoying.  Box sets are a drama with Roon, do collectively,  with other annoyances,  in particular the attitude of management at Roon, was the nail in the coffin, Roon and I divorced.

Not long after , Roon encouraged members to submit artwork to consolidate Roon's metadata,  which in some respects short circuited work that Roon was supposed to do in the first place.

I've been Roonless for close to three years, don't miss it at all.