A+ works, but library and Tidal are still somewhat separated in their own boxes.Īfter several months, all the extra features of Roon compelled me to purchase Roon. Roon also integrated my personal library very well with Tidal. I don't own an iPhone or iPad so I couldn't sit back and control A+ without stealing one of my wife's Apple devices. With Roon it seemed like I could control all my networked systems with a ton of different devices in the house versus A+ which I could not. I was very disappointed because I love the Roon interface, multi-device capabilities, artist & album info, etc. Roon sounded somewhat flat, lacking atmosphere and depth in comparison. A+ had better detail and body to the sound. On sound quality, I preferred A+ over Roon. I decided to audition Roon in early 2018 (not sure what version) with the free trial, mainly because of the multi-room, multi-device capabilities. On both counts, the move to A+ was clearly superior to iTunes. Most important to me is sound quality and reliability. I have been using Audirvana Plus for several years and Roon for almost a year. Late to the party, but I'll add my comments. Assuming both applications handle the memory to USB protocol the same, what else could cause this? On the one hand, yay for finding a sonic improvement but quite frustrating, because it seems there is no end to getting the 100% best possible sound from a PC. I have not tested Tidal for differences yet
My tests involved local DSD files and streaming from 24-bit Qobuz files. Roon also uses ASIO protocol, as I can see it in the Signal Path map
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My DAC is an Exogal Comet Plus I have selected the ASIO protocol because it was the only one that was available to the XMOS USB 2.0 ST 301C driver that Exogal uses I am not really happy about this because I have pretty much gotten used to Roon and love the integration. The difference I am hearing is more than the difference I heard when comparing Tidal to Qobuz (Qobuz sounds better cleaner more incisive, more 'direct' sound) Ĭomparing Roon to Audirvana There is more dynamic contrast with Audirvana Roon sounds flatter and less engaging when doing back and forth using same tracks With Aud, vocals have more "vibrancy" and focus overall sound has more life to it If I didn't do the back and forth I would not have believed this.
Through my headphones I can clearly hear that Audirvana is superior to Roon.
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I recently installed Audirvana on my Win 10 Pro PC (also has Roon) to test the SQ differences.
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