Can Qoboz Connect sound better than Qobuz viz Aurender Conductor?

Another vote for Qobuz Connect. It's been a noticeable improvement in my sensitive tube amp monoblock full range system. 

Don't see myself giving up Qobuz Connect in the future either. It is as intended a great "route" pardon the pun from a fiber optic router/service. Roon doesn't compare. It doesn't make sense IMHO to layer additional hardware in-between to an audio system. 

At best maybe you can get a different sound as some indicate but IMHO, it's not for the best. It's merely a hardware flavor on top. 

In addition to a fiber router incoming, I use Blue Jeans Ethernet cables through two modified Cisco Meraki to the streamer. Both have made a nice impact. 

I'm curious if Qobuz will add features to Qobuz Connect but it's really great now and being able to jump to any device: computer, tablet, phone and control what is playing and make changes is quite nice. 

Qobuz Connect is so good, I can't even say that HQPlayer 5 sounds superior when I've compared through a M1 MacBook Air. HQPlayer sounded better prior but now with Qobuz Connect, I strain to hear one better over the other. Impressive. 

I use Qobuz Connect too with my Innuos MK3.  It sounds better and the ease of use is better since it’s using the Qobuz app instead of the Sense app.  I have to check at the bottom that it’s using my Innuos streamer since it will also show my iPad and iPhone since they both have the QC app. 

Qobuz connect sounded better than my default Roon setup. But the interface with QC is pretty weak. The last change I made to Roon was to turn on upsampling to DSD256 and now Roon sounds better than QC. My dac does dsd256 using i2s.

I am also a huge fan of Qobuz connect by itself.   I started with an Innuos Zenith Mk3 and Roon.  With many experiments, I decided I liked Innuos Sense better than Roon.  Eventually I determined that eliminating Roon and the Innuos was even better.   I now run ethernet into my Meitner MA3i DAC and feed it with Qobuz connect, no more server.  For me it sounds better, and has let me sell off a server, expensive power cable, and extra ethernet cable.  I was surprised and happy!

Either way, be sure to check out a filter between your Aurender and your ethernet input. I just signed up for Qobuz and was fearing it would be a little bright via the ethernet cable (even though it is direct from my AT&T fiber router with no other connections in place). As it turned out, it was a little "hashy". After investigating several options I chose a simple, straightforward unit.

I added an inexpensive iFi Lan Filter with opto isolator and instantly received much clearer signal. $300 investment.

Some of their wording:

"The iFi LAN iPurifier Pro is all you need to enjoy uninterrupted, clean data transmissions from your media PC, network streamer, or media player. By converting an electrical ethernet signal to a clean, optical signal, and then back to a "purified" ethernet signal, the iPurifier Pro effectively eliminates noise, jitter, and distortion for the best video and audio streams.

Many options out there. I chose this one and it is very satisfying.

And like all of you, I sure like the Conductor facilitation of combining Qobuz tunes with my hard drive tunes into playlists. Sweet.

Good listening!