To ROON or not to ROON ?


I have read a lot about upgrades from a blue sound vault of which I have. I have considered the rose, aurender, among others. The first question I have is Roon worth having ? I am a qobuz subscriber and wonder if Roon will make a substantial difference. As far as I know Aurender does not support Roon. Anyone with Room experience ?

THX for the feedback

fullerco

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I have exactly no issues with Roon! The interface is simply the best, easily most intuitive. As for sound quality, my new streamer has capability to use proprietary music player, Roon, HQPlayer, all in one or two computer setup. Roon has built in compatibility with HQPlayer, along with Qobuz and Tidal libraries. HQPlayer is incredible in that you can manipulate bits to provide best sound quality for your individual setup. I can also use a variety of network adapters, using Roon as endpoint via Squeezlite is present favorite setup. Roon also integrates with local libraries far better than the proprietary music players.

 

Some complain about Roon sound quality, I have no problem with this aspect vs. my proprietary player or HQPlayer. While I'm still evaluating sq versus HQPlayer and Stylus which is my proprietary player, Roon via Squeezlite is amazingly natural, lifelike, never heard better digital vs top flight vinyl setups. Bottom line, Roon is indispensable for me, while the Stylus player may yet end up with better sound quality, Roon will remain my main player. User interface so superior the trade off in sound quality between Stylus and Roon is far too close to chose Stylus as main player. I'd have to hear far superior sound quality from any proprietary player to stop using Roon as main player. And I haven't even begun to really get deep into HQPlayer integration with Roon, initial listening session have HQPlayer as major competitor as it pertain to sound quality, and I'd still be able to keep Roon interface if I choose to go this route.