Roon Streaming Service actually Degrades the sound


The purpose of this post is to put pressure on the Roon engineers

to make Roon a better product. How do I know Roon is less than ideal?

From a streamer maker who has the highest standards and 

consequently refuses to go the Roon route. As he put it "I experiment with

my prototype and eliminate everything which holds the best sound back".

Sad to say he rejected Roon for exactly this reason.

I use Roon and do not want to learn a different, worse program.

Hence I want Roon to get better. Anyone listening Roon Folk?

 

 

chorus

Too many unknowns.  

If the mysterious streamer maker was using Roon from a computer verses a Roon nucleus, then ok sure the mystery streamer could sound better.

 

 

 

 

 

@richtruss No android device here. mconnectHD sounds good, better than roon. With mconnectHD streaming Qobuz to the Bricasti there is a wealth of detail and nuance, much better dimensionality and connection to the music. Heck, even Omnia Receiver through a NuPrime Stream9 > Bricasti leaves roon in the dust. I do prefer roon's interface and abundance of information. But sound quality first. 

I’m using a Lumin product, streaming from a Synology NAS. 
I found that I needed much updating to my music library, but am willing to “do the work”. 
There is a native UPNP server app that runs on the Synology. 
I looked at the rune set up and found it unnecessarily complicated, and I’m an IT person. Nothing in the sound path. 
 

@lalitk no don’t get me wrong made a marked improvement and quite happy. Just that streaming is not the preferred media in my listening room.

Have a great day.

@jerryg123 

Thanks for the clarification and glad to hear you’re happy with the improvements. In my system, digital streaming and files (ripped CD’s & DSD) playback has transcended Vinyl.