How good is Roon AIR?

[Gerronwithit]

Yeah, but bar the look and feel, do you (and f1eng) find the sound better via Audirvana and AIR? I guess that's more the point of this thread?

Both posts are somewhat ambiguous as to whether they were the same or one was better than the other....

I apologise if my post was a little bit cryptic but I was writing it on my iPad which has a dreadful bug while using this comment box. It gets slower and slower until my type ahead is miles in front of the letters appearing on the screen. Then, if you make an error and backspace, it will erase the whole lot unless you can somehow stop it. This is being written on a MacBook AIR which works fine.

Anyway, I meant to add that I need to get a little bit of time to compare the two products to see if I can decide which one, if any, is better. Certainly not much in it so far. Roon's configuration has changed my link between this, the MacBook I am using go control it, and the 250Pro. For example, when the Grandkids, sigh, want to use Spotify I need to pass through my AV amp rather than feed it directly. This may not be Roon's fault as I may have just added another layer of complication to my system. Anyway, this I can definitively say, that Spotify fed via the AV amp is pretty naff. 

Through Roon am playing Passenger's latest album, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, which is simple and not full of competing musical layers, it is Tidal FLAC  44.1 kHz 16 bit 2 ch, no oversampling which Audirvana can do. It then classically feeds Devialet AIR. Since my ancient Castles have been SAM'd am delighted with the enhancement, particularly bass. Am enjoying this very much so will have to get back when I run this album through Audirvana. . J

Just a little aside. When in Brugge a couple of weeks ago while I was watching the F1 in the hotel my wife wandered to the Grand Place and saw a crowd standing around a guy busking there. Lo and behold, it was Passenger, Michael Rosenberg himself, which he apparently does quite often while on his endless tours. He was making a fortune!