How good is Roon AIR?

[Unclemonty]

I have an Aurender N100H and am also using Roon Air. I would say that the Aurender is noticeably better, though Roon Air does sound very good, and cetainly loads better than a Sonos unit I also have connected.

I put the superiority down to the fact that the Aurender is playing most off the internal disk, has caching, and is connected to the Devialet with a short USB cable. Roon Air, on the other hand, is connected via about 20m of standard cat5 in wall cable to a NAS.

Despite the sound quality improvement with the Aurender, I have to say I think Roon Air is more than good enough, and if I did not already have the Aurender already then I would feel no need to buy a dedicated streamer given that Roon Air is 'alsmost' free.