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Roon vs JRiver

Hi all,

I am using JRiver currently on my laptop and am quite happy with it for earphone listening via an AQ Dragonfly.

With the recent rave of Roon, I downloaded the trial to find out more about it and whether it is worth the costly switch. The Roon sub is $119 a year or $499 for a lifetime sub which is hefty compared to JRiver's one-time price of $29.99.

When I compared Roon with JRiver, and I only did this with my laptop, AQ Dragonfly and Shure earphones, I find that Roon's noise floor is rather high compared to JRiver which is actually almost dead quiet. Maybe I am not setting it up correctly but the Audio set-up tab seems rather straightforward and intuitive.
The other thing about Roon is you can't set sampling rates with the versatility that JRiver offers.

Has anyone else compared Roon with JRiver?
I would appreciate any input before I make the decision to stick with JRiver.

Thanks in advance.
J. :)
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My experience is quite different. Jriver is crashing (on all computers, not only mine) when you select DSD upsampling and press skip a few times. 

I had ZERO such a problems with Room. It has been super stable to date (Xeon 8-core processor, 64-bit system, 16GB ram).

Roon's library management is easily the best in the biz. So is the Tital integration and their iOS app. They have been developing their software for over 10 years (they first started as Sooloos) - and it shows.

You can greatly improve the sound quality in Roon by adding HQ Player plug in. This is how I use mine.
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