07-Aug-2015, 23:07
(This post was last modified: 07-Aug-2015, 23:09 by Hifi_swlon.)
(07-Aug-2015, 22:17)Ron McKernan Wrote: ROON is impressive and the integration of TIDAL is awesome! So I definitely would love to use ROON as my standard player. However, even if the SQ on AIR/wifi/ethernet is pretty, no: really good (somewhat better than USB – in my case), JRiver MC20 does a bit better. A bit more detailed, a bit more open, a bit more precise. I listened to a whole variety of different music and the result was always the same: JRiver outperforms ROON quite clearly.
In both players I use « Devialet AIR » as speakers, both tell me that I am in WASAPI mode, exclusive, bit perfect. My music files are on a standard NAS, controlled by a win 8.1 laptop.
Somebody has an idea how I can raise ROON SQ to JRiver level?
P.S.: Just in the moment I am listening to one of ROON's/TIDALS's terrific playlists!
Quite a lot of info and discussion on their forum, including some early days talk of possible HQ player integration.
But to be honest, having tried loads of players, Roon and Tidal just does it for me - I listen to far more music, and discover more, and get enjoyment that way and kind of just stopped worrying about the finer details of playback. I compared to Audirvana+ and couldn't honestly detect much difference. That said, they are clever guys over there, and I've no doubt SQ will only improve. I've abandoned Air and just reverted to USB, its somewhat irrelevant to me whether Air is better or not, as its just not a viable solution and I just cant be bothered with it.
There are a few things that dont quite fit my workflow as it stands now in Roon, but then neither does anything outside of iTunes really… its so entwined into my other devices.
Then the other thing is cost, because I dont like subscription models, so the outright is at the high-end price wise.
But then its like nothing else I've ever used in terms of discovery and linking collections together, so its unique and I've listened to and discovered more streamed music in the past few days than I had in the last year before trialling Roon.
I do hope they integrate Qobuz though, I have an affinity to that provider and like to support a more local service rather than another American one.
>>> 1st Place Award: Devialet, last decades most disappointing technology purchase. <<<