I did not expect Roon to sound great during a trial. I just wanted it to be responsive, so prior to my trial I installed a 10th gen i7/ssd NUC. I'm now on the path to approach the listening experience of vinyl. So, money sump, care with the little stuff..especially anything that reduces power and ethernet noise and improves the timing of the signal feeding my DAC. Not an easy task when on a budget.
Sound quality of Roon
I am considering trying Roon. I have been using my Bluesound Node but I am going to upgrade as I do enjoy streaming more and more using Tidal. It is quite an investment to get a NUC or Nucleus and then have a separate tablet to control it all.
But apart from the cost I have read some people say Roon does not sound good. Their streamer by blah blah sounds better. Is this true? For all that is required to use Roon, the hardware, the subscription and all, would Roon be popular if it made digital streaming sound bad?
I would love to hear people who have experience comment on this. There is info on the Roon Labs discussion site but as you can imagine it is saying this is BS Roon sounds great. I guess Roon as a software also has had updates, so maybe this is a thing that might have been true in the past?
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