If sound quality is your primary consideration, Roon may not be your best choice. By all accounts, Roon is wonderful for music file management, but other server/streamer setups using leaner (and quieter) software may sound better. Check out the A-gon thread by Grannyring describing the sound comparisons between Roon and the new software that runs on Innuos hardware. You may still decide that Roon's user interface is worth making some compromises in sound quality, but at least you'll be making decisions with eyes (and ears) wide open.
Wyred 4 Sound vs. Roon Nucleus
Trying to decide which way to go for a Roon streaming system. W4S has the Essential MS (Music Server) and the MS. Roon has the Nucleus and Nucleus+. I am using a W4S DAC2v2SE. Sound quality is my primary consideration.
Streaming is new to me, and other than the MS having a CD ripper, the differences between these units is mostly Greek to me. I can't translate different values of RAM, gigabytes, GHz, SSD, HDD, etc. into anything meaningful. I really don't know if or why one of these units would be better than another. Help!
Streaming is new to me, and other than the MS having a CD ripper, the differences between these units is mostly Greek to me. I can't translate different values of RAM, gigabytes, GHz, SSD, HDD, etc. into anything meaningful. I really don't know if or why one of these units would be better than another. Help!