Roon sound quality observation

[Zappydev]

First, according to Roonlabs knowledgebase, separating the core and audio output will supposedly result in better SQ, which should make sense considering leaving my NUC to focus on music library management and playback, and leave audio output handling to a AudioRenderer (which is RoonBridge). I always worried that my NUC running Win10 will have BSOD because of Devialet AIR device driver issue, which has happened many times in the past (though it has none for more than 1.5 month).

As for now, since I last re-configured my setup, it has been reliable and trouble free. And, Roon has been playing non-stop with all kind of music bitrate music with no issue. Having Fidelizer on both Core and Audio Output further improves SQ. I have also installed JPlay on the RoonBridge which now allows me to select JPlay ASIO or Devialet WASAPI output. Both use Devialet AIR-ETH streaming to my Le200.

I will update further after a longer period of testing.

Good work Gary!  

Guillaume

Hi Gary

I decided to follow your lead, and installed the Core on an iMac, with RoonBridge on my NUC outputting to AIR.

So far so good, and AIR hasn't bombed out yet. (Which means nothing. I'll see how I feel in a week)

One small mystery: I copied the database files from the NUC (previous Core) to the iMac, but the system still insisted on re-scanning everything, which means I have lost the various edits I had made. The actual audio files have not moved. I was surprised that happened - I thought the database continued everything, and could be used to transfer to another system?