![]() Your not doing anything wrong but separating might make a big difference. Lots prefer Roon to the native apps and others don’t it’s a very up down scenario with lists of variables it seems. I use my core attached to my RME DAC and it doesn’t sound any different to having a lighter device such as a raspberry pi running Roon bridge or the Bluesound Node 2i I used to have. However It does seem to be rather DAC dependant though. As excessive CPU activity can affect sq and not all pcs usb sections are the best for audio. Roon do recommend to not have the core attached to audio equipment due to this to get the best from it. Roon unlike other apps is very active and heavier on CPU activity and this includes Qobuz app which is pretty benign. Roon on Android always resamples to the freq the device reports it supports under the Android audio stack so in your case the DAC in it is saying I support 96/24 and Roon will upsample or downsample if higher to make it fit rather than let the Android OS do the resampling.Īs for your PC it’s likely that you are hearing a difference. ![]() Is this because I’m not listening on the same device where Core is running, or some sort of limitation of the 900kbps bandwidth available via LDAC?Īll looks fine there. But regardless of whether DSP gets into the mix or not, both apps sound the same to me. When upsampling is active it runs at 78x-82x, so clearly there’s plenty of horsepower available. Roon does (automatically) engage DSP on some songs, to convert to either 48 or 96Khz, because apparently this setup does not play 44.1Khz. Interestingly enough, I repeated this test on my Galaxy Note 10 as a remote, with Moondrop Blessing 2s running off of a FiiO BTR5 via LDAC, and cannot tell a difference between Roon and the native Qobuz app. Is there something I’m missing? Is there a structural issue with having Roon co-located that is over and above electrical noise, and this should resolve itself once Core is offloaded to ROCK? It is almost like swapping out my Clears for Bluetooth earbuds. In theory, this should not be possible, as the Roon UI shows me that I’m getting lossless playback. ![]() I do have an EQ curve set on the DAC/Amp itself, but I’ve tested both with and without it with similar results. No DSP or processing of any kind is enabled in either app. But even if I handicap Qobuz by turning the volume down to ensure it’s lower than Roon was, it still sounds better–just quieter. However, the SQ argument there is electrical noise, which I would expect to affect all sources equally.īoth apps are set up to use the DAC in WSAPI Exclusive mode, which does make volume-matched comparisons difficult (though in theory they should be the same since both are in Exclusive mode), since I have to close one app before another can talk to the DAC. Monoprice USB cable connected directly to motherboard USBĪll 3 Roon components are running on this machine, which I know is not the top recommendation for sound quality. Both are being played back on the same system: The Roon rendition sounds thinner and less lifelike. Playing the same song back to back via Roon and via the Qobuz native app, there is no question that the latter sounds better. I love the functionality of Roon and the SQ of Qobuz, but it seems I’m missing something if I want to enjoy both at the same time. So I’ve settled on both Roon (trial ended and annual sub started today) and Qobuz (going annual at the end of this month).
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