Popular Post ednaz Posted January 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2018 10 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said: Products didn’t have to be originally released in 2017. For example Roon was originally released years ago, but that shouldn’t stop people from making it product of the year. I'm completely with you on that. I tried Roon twice before - once when they were brand new, once a year or so later. Underwhelmed, but more than that, annoyed by this or that weirdness in their implementation, and the sound quality... well, JRiver just trounced them. At least to my ears. I signed up for a trial again a couple weeks ago. Holy moly. The implementation is smooth and consistent. The UI is quite good, and consistent enough across devices to make it easy to use. One thing that floored me was, I saw that they did Logitech support. OK, cool, let's see. Blew me away when I wandered past my Transporter and saw the Roon logo on the LCD display. They didn't just accommodate the Logitech legacy devices, they embraced and integrated them. Those Transporters (I have two, plus one Touch) sound better than they did with the Logitech server software. And then the sound quality. I wasn't the first to weigh in. First time I fired up the system with Roon with family here, I played some music that everyone likes (tough in families with a wide age range.) EVERYONE said, wait... we've heard this before, but why does it sound so different? When I said "Different?" Every one of them said "Better." Comparing it to JRiver on multiple output devices - it's better on most, equal on one or two. It's the product of the year here... a no brainer buy. Impressed. Abstraction, asdf1000, R1200CL and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Popular Post ednaz Posted January 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2018 On the cost of Roon... I admit that was one issue for me - one among many initially and one now when I was listening to the free trial and thinking, damn this is good. My extremely significant other leaned hard on me about that by running me through other things we "subscribe" to... Adobe takes $20 a month out of my pocket for use of their photo editing software. I pay another imaging software vendor about $140 a year. Linked In hits me each month. Netflix takes their monthly bite, Amazon Prime their annual bite. My Roku is full of ways to hand over $10-20 a month to someone. I send money to NPR, PBS, Radio Paradise a couple times a year. Then there's the backup service for my music library, and another for my phone. When she then started to pull up the bank accounts to look at what I spend on HD downloads... I ran screaming from the room with my fingers in my ears... and bought Roon for the year, along with Tidal. If that combo cuts my HD downloads in half, it's a hell of a deal. I'm still keeping JRiver, and keeping it current. It's just so convenient for my laptop traveling (four different laptops), and it's my fall back if some day I have to choose between Roon and dog food for dinner. The Computer Audiophile, LarryMagoo, Walcascar and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment
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