14-Jul-2017, 02:11
Just some lines to comment on issues affecting me but that may help others.
First of all, my setup: up to now I'm running Roon with HQPlayer (poly-sin-ext, NS9, DSD passes through directly, PCM is taken to 176/192) through a mRendu directly into the USB input of my D220 Pro. I'm applying convolution to take care of at least some characteristics of my room.
Everything went fine when connecting Roon directly to the D via Ethernet. I even used my .wav convolution files in Roon, although I think that HQP took better care of the room issues. Now, Roon directly did appear to sound "with more air" and a bit better instrument definition and placement soundstage wise. But it depended a lot on the record I was playing. I played a number of songs of songs, no issues whatsoever, until I got to playing DSD: applying convolution to DSD was a little too much for my MacBook Pro 2008 and had gaps, dropouts and strange noises until I increased the delay in Roon, until I simply disabled convolution altogether. It sounded fine then, of course, no issues whatsoever, but it then again, I had lost convolution.
My take is that it works really well, but requires a newish computer with real horsepower to take full advantage of everything Roon offers. Going back to using Roon + HQP + mRendu, the impact of the convolution was evident, and in fact I didn't feel there was much of a difference (trying to leave the convolution effect aside) between both paths available to me right now. Of course YMMV, this is just my experience.
Enjoy, Roon has really helped us out here, and everything is for the better. Cheers!
L
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First of all, my setup: up to now I'm running Roon with HQPlayer (poly-sin-ext, NS9, DSD passes through directly, PCM is taken to 176/192) through a mRendu directly into the USB input of my D220 Pro. I'm applying convolution to take care of at least some characteristics of my room.
Everything went fine when connecting Roon directly to the D via Ethernet. I even used my .wav convolution files in Roon, although I think that HQP took better care of the room issues. Now, Roon directly did appear to sound "with more air" and a bit better instrument definition and placement soundstage wise. But it depended a lot on the record I was playing. I played a number of songs of songs, no issues whatsoever, until I got to playing DSD: applying convolution to DSD was a little too much for my MacBook Pro 2008 and had gaps, dropouts and strange noises until I increased the delay in Roon, until I simply disabled convolution altogether. It sounded fine then, of course, no issues whatsoever, but it then again, I had lost convolution.
My take is that it works really well, but requires a newish computer with real horsepower to take full advantage of everything Roon offers. Going back to using Roon + HQP + mRendu, the impact of the convolution was evident, and in fact I didn't feel there was much of a difference (trying to leave the convolution effect aside) between both paths available to me right now. Of course YMMV, this is just my experience.
Enjoy, Roon has really helped us out here, and everything is for the better. Cheers!
L
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