Has anyone used the new Innuos 2.0 Sense music app? Compared it to Roon?

@grannyring,

I downloaded the new firmware and app yesterday to my Zen Mk 3 and I have to agree with everything you say, especially in offline mode.
Cheers!

I downloaded 2.0.4 yesterday Zen MK 3 and must say I am impressed. I was using Roon and liked it, but the SQ of InnuOS 2 is definitely better. The interface is not quite as good as Roon but darn close, and considering the SQ improvement and that InnuOS is free I’m pretty sure I’ll be canceling my Roon subscription. I have not tried offline mode yet.
A couple of things I do not like with InnuOS so far:
1. No Roon Radio, so when my “Now Playing” is exhausted the music stops (and I don’t get exposed to new music). 2. There is no way to change the default when a song is pressed...In Roon I set the default to add that song to the bottom of the Now Playing queue. InnuOS default is to wipe out whatever is in Now Playing, play the song that was pressed, and add the rest of that album to the Now Playing queue. Not a huge deal when I am controlling but when someone less familiar has the controller it’s inevitable that they will press on a song (first hand experience with Roon during get togethers with a bunch of people over).

nuno, the developer of innuos wrote me in an email that the new interface sense 2.0.4 "ONLY" provides ONE path to a nas.
so no second path outside of the innuos hard drive.
so also not a second path to my pc e.g.
this means a very big limitation for everyone who tries to collect a larger collection, which do not fit on the innous hard drive at all and may not fit on a nas system, cannot be operated ???? !!!!!!!
this is bad news and actually not logical.

Count me in the camp that noticed an immediate improvement in sound quality using Sense instead of Roon with my Innuos Statement.  Can it be as simple as the fact that the music now streams directly into the server instead of making a detour into the Roon core before reaching the server?  We had been using Roon nucleus as the server.   I agree with other posts that something akin to Roon radio would be nice, but I think it’s a great App overall in terms of user friendliness, and bottom line, you have to go with the better sound.  Very happy I invested in The Statement.

At first I thought it was better, but after having many issues with the app and even the web controller I decided to switch back to Roon. I think the Innuos app is EQ’d kind of like MQA files. I’m listening to a Zenith mkIII through Chord Qutest, PrimaLuna EVO 400 to Sonus Faber Sonetto VIII’s and I’m playing a high Rez flac file saved on the internal drive. On Norah Jones album Pick me up off the floor, on the last track, heaven above, she just sounds more natural and the piano in the left rear just has more presence and focus. On the Innuos app she sounds nasally and raspy.