Trying Qobuz Connect For the First Time

6 months ago I stated that Qobuz connect sounds better than Roon (with no up sampling) with Roon running on Mac OS or on Linux, and the guys in our audio club thought the same. The interface of QC is terrible. I setup a playlist of 100 songs that really bring out the sonics of my system and it was a chore using QC. 

With a new dac, I modified Roon server to upsample everything to dsd256, which sounds better than QC.
 

@dwette @tuberist 

Thanks for the heads up, had no idea.

Kudos to Weiss for implementing Qobuz Connect. 

Yup, gotta love quality companies that continually update their products instead of stating their obsolescence in the hopes one just buys a new one. Just updated mine, worked like a charm. Most times one gets what they pay for in life. There hasn’t been an update in 4 years, and now 5 in a couple of months! I see the latest one June 1 was a Roon roll back to RAAT v1.1.47, must be some issues with the latest Roon update- not surprising.

As far as sound quality in my primary system with my server LMS/Squeeze/Squeezelite is still the best, then MPD/Minimserver/Jplay and then Roon, regardless of file resolution or format. however this is not where the 501 is, it is connected via ethernet in a different system. Have yet to try Qobuz connect. 

Can you guys tell me how you were made aware about the firmware update? 

@mclinnguy 

Can you guys tell me how you were made aware about the firmware update?

Daniel Weiss sent me an email to let me know, because I had asked about it previously. Now there's also a note about it on the product page.

mclinn, I signed up for emails from Weiss about product and software updates and that’s how I learned about the software addition of Qobuz connect. Through my 501 playing QC, the music presentation loses a lot of spatial qualities. It is not night and day, but it is definitely noticeable and the QC presentation is sure to appeal to some. I used Roon for years until Daniel Weiss recommended I try JPlay, although both sound good, JPlay sounds more natural to me and is preferred

I use Jplay and Roon with Nucleus One as Roon Core.
The latest roon updates have addressed a lot of performance issues including sound quality. As of now the gap between Jplay and Roon has narrowed. But…given roon’s historical inconsistency with updates that can and most likely will impact sound quality again, I will be using both Roon and Jplay. I have a large music library on SSD mounted inside the Nucleus. To make the local library available with Jplay I need to install minim server…additional time, additional subscription…and I haven’t gotten around to trying to it yet. I have been enjoying Roon a lot more nor after the update.