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Alternatives to Roon to play SACD-ISO files

I have 2,100 "high rez" recordings on an HDD which about half of them are SACD-ISO recordings, which will not play natively on Roon.   So it seems my alternatives are to convert them into DSD/DSF files which are compatible with Roon or abandon Roon and use Audirvana or JRiver to play them, but I unclear as to how complicated that conversion would be with my limited technical abilities.  I have never been convinced that hi-rez recordings are superior to Redbook recordings so there is that.  Any advice would be very much appreciated.  

whitestix
betrthanren
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I used Jriver to convert the ISO to DSD to put on my NAS and stream to my DAC. I like having the DSD files. In my testing when I did this using Jriver it sounded really weak compared to the TraX conversion which sounds much better. I thought maybe that’s what you were doing. 

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kr4
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I don't know why your experience with Jriver and direct ISO playback was unsatisfactory to you.  It has not been so for me.  That said, I do not know what you expect to hear, what your system is, what your room is or how you have set up Jriver.  Just relating my experience.

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kr4
3,781 posts
 

Which version of Jriver were you using?  Until recently, Jriver made such conversions via a PCM intermediary step.

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