Roon 1.8

A great new improvement that is likely not considered by most people is the GPU usage on the ROON client. It used to be so bad that I would shut down the client and restart it again whenever I needed to select music (prior to v1.8). 

The Client also did not play nice with NVidia computer graphics drivers. I had to separate my ROON CORE and CLIENT into 2 machines. Which also gave many other advantages.

Today with the new v1.8 the GPU usage is under 10% on my cheapo DELL computer which has 6 monitors attached to it. A big win in my books.

These GPU issues were also a problem on MACs though I do not run it on my MAC anymore.

One issue I had with the upgrade was that I lost RDP connectivity to my ROON CORE computer server. I rebooted that server and will see how it goes. It is working well now.

@tvad 

It appears that Roon have some server issues, as to be expected for today’s release.  The Roon Community forums were down for most the day.  I think things with 1.8 will get worked out as new bugs are addressed and the servers get back to a normal load.

So far, I’m having a great experience, but I haven’t used all the features, yet.

Please keep me posted as to your progress.  Thank you!

@david_ten 

I need to spend more time listening (mainly I have been learning the new interface and features), but I can confirm that there is no loss in sound quality.  I might even lean toward a slightly better sound, but I will not make that claim official until I have more listening time.

What are your thoughts?

@yyzsantabarbara 

Interesting!  I have a Raspberry Pi that I have used as a Roon player, I need to update it and give it a go.  Thanks!

@allane  The changes in SQ surprised me. I was not expecting any SQ changes. 

Significant (as in most noticeable): More body, weight and impact.

Cleaner / more transparent / more opened up.

An additional ease / flow to the music. 

I need to listen more to get a feel for whether there are aspects lessened.