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To Roon or not

For the past few years I have been using a LuminT2 w/ Qobuz and it's copacetic. 

Happy with the sound. Ok with the software. Not happy with having to pull up a browser to search for information about the artists or have similar music/artists be at the ready to explore. 

Back when Roon didn’t work with Qobuz. Now it does.

In my testing I think the native Lumin software sounds better (fuller, richer) that when using Roon. 

A few questions please. I’m looking for secret sauce settings.

Are there MQA setting(s) that I might be better off using? Currently set to “render only.”

Use the Roon DSP?

Sample Rate Conversion Settings?

I’m using an iPad that sees the Roon core on a computer else where in the house. If I can't tell any sound difference then an old computer can serve as the core. The iPad also runs my Amp/Lumin with split view and that's great. For some reason Roon will not work with split view?



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erik_squires
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I’ve found the Roon forums to be very responsive.
I am running a Macbook Air right now as I type for the UI, no issues. I run a Linux server and Linux/Pi streamer.

Same for my Android and Windows as controllers.  All work fine.
erik_squires
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I am enjoying the Roon music discovery a great deal, not to mention the UI.

I couldn't care less about MQA, though my DAC supports it and Roon can apply EQ to it while keeping MQA.

As for upsampling, with modern DAC's I haven't found a big benefit to doing more than 96 kHz.

You can get brighter and harsher by doing to DSD, but meh. Not for me.
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