I do have some recent adds like Snarky Puppy, Brandi Carlile and some other fill-ins that I’ve been downloading from HD-Tracks. I may add a streaming service some day, but for now I’m enjoying ripping and rediscovering my library. Of course, Roon cannot group the Lumin and Sonos devices. By pausing, grouping, playing, all seems to work OK. If I group or ungroup while music is playing, the syncing takes a minute or two at best or the Core may get hung altogether. The Roon Remote controls all of this very nicely with the exception that I’ve discovered that the best way to group and ungroup Sonos devices is to pause play, group or ungroup, then resume play. In addition, I have Sonos throughout the house and will be upgrading my AVR to a NAD T778 in about two weeks which is Roon Ready. The DAC outputs to a Pass Labs XP-22 preamp -> Pass Labs X150.8 Amp to YG Acoustics Hailey 2.2 speakers. I’ve aggregated the 4 1Gb ethernet ports to a Cisco SG200-26 switch and use a 1Gb fiber connection from the switch to a Lumin X1 DAC (in Roon only mode). My setup is a Synology DS1821+ NAS Running DSM7 with 64TB HDD storage (Seagate EXOS drives), 2 SSD cache devices (Intel 670p series) and the Roon Core on a Samsung e-SATA SSD drive (850 EVO 250GB). To me, its the perfect radio station, playing all of my favorite artists and songs, and seems to sense my current "mood" well. My wife and I are both really impressed with how good Roon is at doing this. When an album is done, Roon keeps the music playing and does a really excellent job of selecting complementary tunes from my library. My basic use-case is sorting by artist, choosing an artist, choosing an album and playing from the start of the album. I currently have 4,600 tracks in my library and am working on digitizing about 400 LPs and ripping about 300 CDs. The interface is not perfect, but once you get used to it, it is very easy and does a great job. With that said, I am very happy with Roon. I do not subscribe to Qobuz and paid the one-time lifetime fee to Roon. In other words, my use-case is different than what you describe, since I am mainly interested in playing my library and not using the setup to discover new music. I am running a Roon core on my Synology NAS, playing my own library. So my suggestion would be to choose wisely as app software is just as important as choosing the right hardware (streamer or server). When Innuos users reported that Innuos Sense app sounds better than Roon, I wasn’t surprised at all. IME, Aurender’s Conductor app is very faithful to original source and doesn’t manipulate digital bits like Roon. I don’t use any of the DSP features in Roon either. For simplicity and layout, I prefer the Aurender Conductor app over Roon by a mile. Yes, Roon has an advanced but complexed interface but when I am listening to music, I don’t care for none of that! I just wanna queue up music and listen. Majority of the hardware providers has taken an easy way out of not developing their own app interface and chose to adapt Roon.įor that matter, I admire Aurender for not giving into Roon and developed their on very robust and straightforward app that’s easy to follow. To Roon or not, it squarely depends on your choice of hardware.
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