Roon vs Qobuz Connect
Yes the title is misleading because Qobuz is a server and Roon is an aggregator. But this question is for all those who stream Qobuz via Roon, or via Qobuz Connect (QC).
There is little doubt that QC sounds significantly better than Roon streaming Qobuz. Admittedly a subjective opinion, but for all of those who agree:
The advantages of Roon in integrating personal and external sources are obvious. To counter this, I can run a small local server and access my personal collection via Qobuz. But the aggregation sucks overall.
What can I do to have my QC cake and eat it too? I’d love to hear about any clever tweaks to imitate Roon’s capabilities, while keeping QC quality.
I’ve done that before, with both ripped CD files and purchased hi-res files. I don’t hear much – if any at all – difference between them. In Roon I used fixed volume and disable all the DSP features, for minimal processing of the stream before it hits my DAC. |
Roon Labs Community is the Roon forum and it’s very good with Roon employees in the mix. Like this!
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@wsrrsw fun conversation -- and will continue to follow --- but apart from a couple of posts that corroborate the same points here, not much (on that particular thread I mean). Too many people already vested in Roon. Plus Paul McGowan at PSAudio seems to be a polarizing force! :-) |
@debrajray what about the Moon Mind app with your moon streamers? That should allow you to closely replicate what QC sounds like and enable you to read local files. |
