10-Feb-2021, 14:38
(10-Feb-2021, 05:02)LeeC Wrote: Just home from work, upgraded Roon across my Nuc, phone and tablet. Not quite sure why but now the signal path is RAAT when it was ethernet prior.Oddly enough, as with you, I found Roon 1.8 to sound noticeably better. I know -- bits are bits, and so forth -- but the sound was beguiling yesterday through an extended listening session.
Sounds noticeably different - better. More soundstage, separation and presence .
I'm liking it a LOT.
Anyone else found Roon 1.8 to sound better or is it the change to RAAT?
Devialet Expert 220 Pro Kinki EX-M7 power amp tethered to a fiber-fed Lumin X1 streamer via Grimm XLRs, Vivid B1 Decade speakers in Rosso Barchetta red (only 200 produced in a limited edition), Roon Nucleus with a Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD, etherREGEN switch fed by a Sonore opticalModule (and Sonore-supplied transceivers and 1M optical cable) with a SOtM dCBL-Cat7 cable to my Nucleus and a DH Labs Reunion Cat8 to my Lumin T2 streamer, Keces P8 linear power supply feeding a (to come) NUC and EtherREGEN switch with an external AfterDark OCXO clock., and opticalModule (5V/1A), AudioQuest Niagara 1000 power conditioner, ASI LiveLine loom (purchased directly from Franck Tchang when I lived in France), Less Loss Firewall for Speakers and Roon lifetime license with Tidal streaming.
