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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
artg
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rsf507, learn more here: https://jplay.app/faq

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audphile1
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I think jplay is only on iOS. If my assumption is correct then you won’t find it in any other app store. 

soix
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The only software I’ve read about where people ended up ditching Roon was with the Innuos Sense app, and while it may not be quite as good as Roon it may get close enough for you without the hassles and is constantly being upgraded for both sonics and usability so likely to get even better in the future.  FWIW, and best of luck. 

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audphile1
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@soix Aurender integrated roon with the latest generation of their streamers. The native conductor app sounded better than roon to me when I had the N200. Don’t get me wrong Roon sounds fine. But the recessed and dull sound signature persists. It’s a shame because Roon UI has the richest feature set of all streaming options. Funny thing is sonically it was almost there until the last few updates that I guess had added some additional processing that now resulted in even more compromises in sound quality. 

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mapman
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Occurs to me that premium audio hifi vendors would have little incentive to allow Roon to “sound best” on their hardware compared to their proprietary software.  
 

Also worth noting that no proprietary  high end hifi hardware is required to use Roon.  

More likely proprietary vendors shoot to deliver a more unique  custom sound of some sort to allow their gear to standout from others.  

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