23-Jul-2016, 11:44
Besides the differing hardware and software another mechanism at play probably is splitting the Roon Server part from the rendering part, so the 'dual machine' setup with Roon RAAT used in between. Many people have noticed differences here, I can't remember exactly/in detail how or what (it's all on the Roon forum and also CA) but I've even read that with Roon 1.1 the single PC setup sounded better than dual PC setup and in Roon 1.2 this was the other way around (or vice versa).
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