Sonore microRendu

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Are your rooms wired with coax cable? If so, you can look into using MoCA 2.0 for networking.

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11 hours ago, HumanMedia said:

32 minutes ago, HumanMedia said:

 

OK which do people think sounds the best?

 

Reason I ask this is I trialled Roon about a year ago. Made sure all processing of the signal was swItched off. Verified this with a Roon support person. In the limited time I had to compare, LMS sounded repeatedly better than Roon. It was enough of an unexplained difference for me not to subscribe. But I had so little time with it to figure out why and the Roon client (and LMS player) have probably been rewritten since then, so the same comparison now may not give the same results.

 

Anyone else hear differences between renderer clients on the Rendu? Any preferences on the basis of audio quality experienced?

 

I recently trialed Roon for 60 days and did not subscribe. Roon sounded significantly worse than an ultraRendu using MPD as music player. I tried Roon core on my iMac with both the uR as endpoint and a MacBook Air running Roon Bridge. I even set up a NUC as a ROCK. All combinations sounded worse than using MPD alone. I have no idea why this is but nothing I tried changed the fundamental SQ of Roon. I'm not surprised  that you found LMS to sound better. I found little difference in the SQ between the MBA/Bridge and the uR/Roon Ready, the problem appears to lie with Roon itself. This, of course, is my personal experience, YMMV.

 

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Roon's stance seems to be that if the Signal Path shows lossless, then there is nothing more to be said. We all know that many music players sound different and I don't think anyone really understands why. Nevertheless, most of the people who create these programs are generally trying to improve the sound with each update. Roon doesn't seem to be concerned with absolute sound quality, only the feature aspect. Roon support weren't even interested in trying to reproduce what I was hearing, they are only concerned with what the Signal Path indicates.

 

My experience with Roon was that it sounded like the upper mids & treble were boosted. This caused an over emphasis of harmonics changing voices and changing the tonal structure of instruments such as violin. This also gave Roon great depth and air but after a while it became quite obvious that there was something wrong musically. This was easy to demonstrate in my system, my wife picked up on it right away. To Sonore's credit, the ultraRendu did provide the "best" sound from Roon. The uR provided very smooth sound with no harshness but the harmonic emphasis remained.

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2 hours ago, steveoat said:

I am using a microrendu with a mytek liberty dac using roon as the music player.

 

I also have a  bluesound node 2.  Since the dac in the node 2 is only of average quality (though it does decode MQA), I would like to feed the bluesound node2 into the coaxial input of my mytek dac, which supports MQA.  Can I do this using the microrendu, or would I have to connect the mytak directly to the computer usb port to do this?

Seems to me that if you are using Roon the Bluesound node 2 is somewhat redundant. Why do you need to use both?