Trying Qobuz Connect For the First Time


My Weiss 501 DAC just received the latest Firmware update. I have been using the JPlay interface which  I find to be very transparent and dimensional. So far the Connect sound seems more immediate and somewhat forward. I need to listen a lot more before doing a fair comparison with JPlay.

tuberist

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. 

@dwette 

Nice of Daniel to do that.

I have some correspondence with him as well, and I thought I had registered the product when I got it (second hand) but nothing emailed. 

@tuberist  just subscribed online via the contact form, hopefully good now. 

Thanks guys.

Yeah @audphile1  love Jplay, I have been using Roon less and less. Going forward I trust Jplay much more than Roon. The former is concerned about quality sound for audiophiles, and the latter is concerned with massive acceptance to music listeners, even those in cars. Wonder if I can sell my lifetime subscription devil

@mclinnguy I haven’t tried jplay in the car yet. I normally listen to tidal when I drive. Decent stereo there so it will be interesting to see if I can hear any sound quality differences. Doubt it :)

I migrated away from Roon because of the frequent and sometimes problematic updates. It became tiresome. I like less boxes in my rig; one of the many reasons I like my Weiss, since I use the preamp function.

@tuberist 

I migrated away from Roon because of the frequent and sometimes problematic updates.

Same here, plus the messy support system which essentially has you doing the leg work for them when there is a problem (often of their own making because software updates crashed something).