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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
sdl4
251 posts
 

I want to reinforce the comments from @soix about the Innuos Sense app. I know several high-end audio dealers who consider Sense to be superior to Roon in sound quality, ease of use, and stability. Roon has a well-deserved reputation for having a wide range of features, but those features often put extra demands on the server/streamer hardware for faster (and noisier) processors and greater storage space. Innous designed Sense to include a sensibly chosen range of features that meet the needs of most users and maintain optimal SQ while keeping hardware demands reasonable. 

I have used Sense for several years and I love it! The more I hear about problems with Roon, the happier I am to have embraced a better streaming/storage app. If I were forced to use Roon, I would probably take a close look at the Grimm MU1 or MU2. But my positive experience with the Sense app has kept me firmly committed to Innuos gear.

antigrunge2
1,557 posts
 

@sdl4 Totally agree, Sense beats Roon SQ by a country mile. Use Innuos servers with a good clock either in your DAC or controlling it via USB and feed it with a fibre link or good switch in front

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campoly
133 posts
 

Is the Sense app only for Innuos products?

antigrunge2
1,557 posts
 

It is designed for InnuOs hardware but can be controlled by any Android or IOS device and output signal to other servers or DACs

pgaulke60 OP
349 posts
 

He Folks,

Yesterday morning my Roon Nucleus was not happy. Kept dropping out, searching, finding, then dropping out my endpoints. I was in the yard working and kept coming in to check on it. Four hours and nothing allowed me to play music.

when I was finally done in the garage I came in and said screw it. I turned on dCS Mosaic App and boom, music played right away.

Post shower I did a hard reboot of the Roon Nucleus, and it worked.

what this tells me is that my problem is not a network issue. It is the Roon Nucleus. My audio guy will loan me a Roon One to try, just to be sure, but I’m done. Seriously looking at the Sonic Transporter.

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