Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

Tonight, it feels as if streaming is totally involving. Two albums by Ashra on Qobuz are sounding fabulous.

Not sure if it’s just a fortunate happenstance or if all the tweaks that I’ve done over the past couple of months have come to fruition. Either way it’s a treat for my ears.

After I posted my previous comments last night, I lay in bed reflecting on the sudden improvement in the sound quality of streaming that I am experiencing.

A bizarre and heretical thought hit me like an express train. Yesterday, thanks to my kind wife, I had replaced the ageing iPad and Kindle Fire that I have been using as a Roon Control Point with a new 13 inch iPad Air with 512GB. Overkill for the job perhaps but likely to be useful for other purposes. This was an instant upgrade from an ergonomic point of view. The screen is bigger, the connection to Core and Linn DSM more stable and the screen refreshes much more quickly. Could the new iPad have also been responsible for the improvement in sound quality?

Google Gemini thinks that may well have been the case. The insecure connections of the old iPad and the Kindle would have been generating extra traffic over the wifi, which may well have been causing noise and thus be perceived as digital glare affecting the sound. Whether this is true or not, I’m going to take the win and enjoy the improved sound quality. 

One thing is clear, my long term dissatisfaction with streaming is over.  

@newton_john 

it isn’t the iPad  

Roon deployed a major update at the end of April. 
it addressed several issues with the product, including memory leaks and performance sluggishness. As part of this update, and most likely due to memory leak fix, the sound quality improved tremendously. 
I have been noticing a much more engaging sound after the update. 
I actually had cancelled roon with effective date few weeks ahead. I rescinded the cancellation. It sounds excellent right now. Gone is the rolled off anemic sound. It’s open and engaging now

@audphile1 

The MA3 mysteriously connected with Mcontrol, which I don't know how to use yet. I'll try downloading Roon.

@audphile1 

Is that Roon 2.65 back on 27th April? I am talking about a change that happened last night.