Playing Roon over RAAT - Does the server matter for SQ?

[rblnr]

As a former reviewer and now dealer, I’ve spent some time A/Bing servers from a Mac laptop to a Roon Nucleus+ to a middle of the line Innuos and other expensive servers using Roon over the network, and often direct USB as well.   From a dealer perspective I would love to sell a higher end/more expensive server than the Roon, but every time I A/B on my very revolving and high performance system, I’m just not hearing any difference.   I know people who rave about their Taikos, etc — the improvement isn’t there for me, or whatever benefit there may be is so subtle as to not make any sense from a value perspective. 

[rblnr]

I doubt it's very different either.   What the Nucleus gives you is a compact, quiet, turnkey solution that ensures speedy operation of Roon -- this is appealing to both me and many of my clients. .   I did add an LPS; whether this makes it sound better or not I haven't tested, but a couple of respected friends, and John Atkinson of Stereophile all rec'd it, so I did it.   One day I'll get around to testing it, but there's no great way to A/B.