Popular Post Sevenfeet Posted July 14, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2018 I finally broke down and turned Roon on, after initially balking at paying for the cost. And in less than 24 hours, I understand why audiophiles love this. I'm sure earlier versions had some interesting bugs, but at Roon 1.5, it was surprisingly easy to implement across my house that includes two Oppo DACs hooked up to old Macs running Windows 10, three Apple TVs, one Airport Express and two Denon/Marantz processors. Installing the Core on my elderly 2008 Mac Pro iTunes server was surprisingly painless; It took all night for it to go through examination and equalization data collection process of all 30K songs and I boosted the rate by asking it to use all 8 cores maxed out. Surprisingly, it didn't impede other functions of the server during the process. The family watched a movie served through Plex during this process without a hiccup. And playing music during these period seemed just as fast as when the server was idle. Controlling the Core is also very easy regardless of the interface is MacOS, Windows, iPad or iPhone. I'm also impressed that the overall latency of asking for a song and it playing is shockingly low, regardless if the song is from the local library or from Tidal. I think the UI is pretty nice although there are some things I might change. Scrolling through albums horizontally as opposed to vertically is not how I'm used to coming from other software but it's a minor quip. Nice to have a choice between light and dark mode. It would be really nice if one day you could mix and match Airplay devices with RAAT endpoints to play all simultaneously. I don't know if the Mac endpoints can do DSD natively to the DACs or not (the main reason why I installed Windows via Bootcamp on those machines). And I haven't tried HQPlayer yet, which will be the last integration point to test. jabbr and tmtomh 2 Link to comment
Sevenfeet Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 And i just had a Roon victory in my house....I convinced my wife to use it. Will wonders never cease.... Link to comment
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