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
Little dedicated Linux based device for running the ROON core only. https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/products/sonictransporter-i5?_pos=4&_sid=605a54238&_ss=r Advance to 1:00 minute mark for a rundown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkGGZckumA
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More and more end users are reporting that, in terms of sound quality, QC > Native App >/» UPnP/DLNA > Roon. Volumio might be an exception so far. So what should replace Roon - QC, or, if you are a Tidal user, TC? Unless you have a large local library stored on an SSD/server, although native apps can handle that as well. QC also has a pretty good search engine and autoplay feature, which has helped me discover many albums and titles worth exploring.
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@marcin_gps The difficulty I have with JPlay, and this problem has been discussed and confirmed on your JPlay Forums, is that with JPlay a stream from Tidal or Qobuz goes through your iPhone or iPad over WiFi to your local network and over the network to your streamer. This WiFi streaming causes dropouts. Local files from a NAS over hardwired Ethernet to the streamer is fine. But problems arise when streaming Tidal or Qobuz. That really sucks with JPlay!! Sorry, but that’s how it is with JPlay, and the reason I stopped using JPlay. |
