Replacing Roon - What Should I get?


I'm tired of Roon having brain farts.  I have an original Roon Nucleus and have updated and augmented the Memory.  This helped for a bit.  But now, I keep having to reboot the darn thing.

It's not my network.  I have checked it out and everything in the house works fine.

Here is the setup.  A direct fiber optic link goes to the Router.  Then ethernet to Roon from the Router.  This way I get Roon to talk with the setup upstairs.  I have an 35 foot ethernet cable that runs through the walls directly from the router into my dCS Lina.

I want to replace the Roon.  I am thinking about an Innuos Stream.  Just need a streamer that can hold Roon/Tidal.  Don't need a DAC as the dCS does that quite well.  I have a SSD in the Nucleus that holds a ton of my music that I want to move over.

Thoughts on what to replace the Roon with?  Innuos (Stream) always get bandied about.  I hear about Arender as well. I don't want to get an updated Roon.

I also wonder about deleting and reinstalling the Roon App on my iPads.

Thanks in Advance

pgaulke60

@dsnyder0cnn Yes, Thank You, I would love to chat with you.  How do I get ahold of you.  I will be at Axpona in April, But only Friday, and maybe a couple of hours on Saturday.  Talking instead of typing would be very beneficial. Thanks again.

@audphile1, I agree about JPLAY sounding great but the dealbreaker for me is that there are no sort options for Qobuz playlists within the JPLAY app.
 

I find myself gravitating away from Roon for listening sessions using Qobuz connect instead and only using Roon for discovery and even that isn’t as shiny as it once was.

+1 @woots .  I have run Roon for 10 years, had issues with a Nucleus.  Got a Grimm MU1 and it sounds better and is rock solid.  I've tried other software and Roon is the best for me.  Optimized it sounds great.

Like another posted Roon runs flawlessly for me.  SomicTransporter I5, ultraRendu, Venus II-12th DAC.

@pgaulke60 - Sure. Send an email to [email protected]. I'll reply back with more details so that we can find a time to have a call.