Devialet, Roon and Tidal

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With Tidal as a streaming source, you will find that Roon is a great product and the Air integration works very well. I went for a year's subscription first with Roon and liked the sound quality, interface and general convenience. A year later I found that Tidal was too limited in its variety of music and limitations on easily discovering music, and I wasn't using the full options of Roon. With the CI Board now installed in my 220 Pro, I can stream directly from Spotify to the Dev without the need for my Mac Mini in the chain at all. Many audiophiles make efforts to limit the number of elements in the streaming chain, and that's as direct as one can make it. I may not be the purest audiophile, but I have difficulty hearing the difference between Tidal HiFi (Master) and Sporify Premium, which I have also A/B tested with my Sennheiser 800S headphones and Sennheiser HD 820 headphone amp. Close non-audiophile friends can't either. The killer for me was when I discovered the joy of discovering music through Spotify which is so easy and convenient. Furthermore, the Spotify app on the iPhone does as much as the Roon app, and with rumors that Tidal may go into receivership this year I didn't go for the $499 Roon lifetime yet. I'm waiting for Spotify to offer lossless streaming, which may or may not come soon. Just to share my own recent thoughts and approach!