I have to admit this is a general help/thoughts/opinions question.
I dont like Roon for many many reasons but they are semi irrelevant as the Renderer only supports Roon, when I saw the ProISL inputs I said great I will wait for Aurender to release a model that supports it natively and off to the races but now that the N50 is announced I am starting to wonder.
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Do you control volume using the MSB DAC or using Aurender or via the native app?
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Can you hear a difference using ProUSB vs ProISL?
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As I dont plan to up-sample is there an audible difference between the N20/N30/N50
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Has anyone compared high end streamers such as the Lumin U2?
Actually, the Renderer is not Roon only. I used Minimserver running on my NAS and JPlay on my iPhone streaming to the Renderer with no issues.
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my apologies, you are correct JPlay is an option but we are a Android, Windows, Apple household, my Wife is a Spotify user and I like Tidal (playing with Qobuz now and the app isn’t bad but the Roon wrapper is awful)
Hi
I’m a Roon fan and longtime Room user. I was very pleased to see their acquisition by Harman, ensuring their long-term survival, which is rare in high-end audio.
For years, Tidal engaged in widespread consumer fraud, in partnership with MQA, claiming, falsely and ridiculously, that its platform had higher resolution than Qobuz and other, unaltered HD formats. Fortunately, with Tidal dropping MQA that charade has finally stopped. Qobuz is a vastly superior platform.
Since you have said are not doing DSP at the server-level, you are therefore only passing bits from the server into the cache of either the DAC or Digital Director. If you use Pro-USB you are further isolating network noise since it cannot travel over optical.
So, the first question before spending a lot of money is:
In this configuration, why should any music server have any impact on the sonic signature of the analog output stage of a DAC? How could that happen technically?
Cheers
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