Review of Roon Media Player and Server

[Blizzard]

Blizzard ...

So, there's a way to take the PEQ settings from Fab Filter Pro and convert those to a convolution file with the appropriate sampling frequency and bit depth for HQ Player to process it?

I've tried convolution engines such as Acourate and AudioLens, and while powerful, they did "too much" and sucked a bit of the life out of my system. Fab Filter Pro works a lot better for me.

It's not obvious that VST plugins have to degrade quality. Sure, some are lousy, but not all of them are. Just as with most audio products. It should be entirely possible do the noise shaping and upsampling that HQPlayer excels at following the application of a plug in or convolution engine.

Try REW. It may not be obvious that VST plugins degrade quality. But depends on the quality in the first place. It's obvious to me the difference going from Jriver to HQplayer makes. Jussi knows how the code works, and he didn't find the way VST plugin's work to be acceptable to achieve the level of quality acceptable for HQplayer. Otherwise, he would make them compatible. It's not because he doesn't know how to do it.

What would be nice is if fabfilter allowed export of impulse response profiles. I like Fabfilter as well, but I don't like the sound quality, and lack of DSD support bottleneck.

 

[amirm]

Since this the Roon review thread, I moved all the recent posts on DSD to its own thread: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?19882-Multi-bit-DSD-versus-PCM&p=375074#post375074

 

[NorthStar]

? http://www.techhive.com/article/292...st-have-software-for-hardcore-music-fans.html

 

[NorthStar]

Since this the Roon review thread, I moved all the recent posts on DSD to its own thread: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?19882-Multi-bit-DSD-versus-PCM&p=375074#post375074

The thread is already closed. ;-)

Most likely an inadvertent honest mistake. :b

* And you were right Amir to transfer the last couple pages to their appropriate forum's section. Sorry for that bifurcation; I'm @ fault.

 

[Blizzard]

Since this the Roon review thread, I moved all the recent posts on DSD to its own thread: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?19882-Multi-bit-DSD-versus-PCM&p=375074#post375074

Yes I see it moved, but you moved it and closed it. So hard to continue the conversation there.

 

[amirm]

The thread is already closed. ;-)

Most likely an inadvertent honest mistake. :b

* And you were right Amir to transfer the last couple pages to their appropriate forum's section. Sorry for that bifurcation; I'm @ fault.

Sorry, I forgot . It is open now.

 

[Blizzard]

The thread is already closed. ;-)

Most likely an inadvertent honest mistake. :b

* And you were right Amir to transfer the last couple pages to their appropriate forum's section. Sorry for that bifurcation; I'm @ fault.

Yes the multibit DSD topic was going off topic, but HQplayer is an add-on to Roon that supports DSP to both PCM and DSD. So folks who don't want Roon due to it's lack of DSP capabilities, might want to know this. And knowing why it does it better than Jriver, probably isn't information that would cause them any harm either. So anyone reading this tread and what's to know more can go to the other thread now.

 

[Whatmore]

How much is HQ player ?

 

[amirm]

Looks like it is about $142: http://www.shareit.com/product.html...http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signalyst.com%2Fwebshop.html

 

[Blizzard]

Looks like it is about $142: http://www.shareit.com/product.html...http%3A%2F%2Fwww.signalyst.com%2Fwebshop.html

$92 through member Bibo01. He's an authorized reseller.

 

[dallasjustice]

Sorry to post a remark about Roon on this thread. But here goes:

Does anyone using Roon find themselves asking "is this really MY music?" Sometimes I feel like I'm getting new music for which I paid a long time ago.

 

[beaur]

I know what you mean. The latest update makes it a little easier to see where you purchased the music but I am definitely digging the depths of my library. Ad the Tidal feature of adding the album to your library makes it even more confusing.

Sorry to post a remark about Roon on this thread. But here goes:

Does anyone using Roon find themselves asking "is this really MY music?" Sometimes I feel like I'm getting new music for which I paid a long time ago.

 

[christoph]

James, someone else posed your question of "ceases to exist" to Roon on the Roon Forum. I suggest you go on the Roon Forum and do a search and see if the Q/A meets to your satisfaction. If not pose your follow-up questions to ROON as they are very responsive to all.

That was me and the answer I got led me to sign a lifetime membership

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/wh...scribers-if-the-company-folds-or-is-sold/4540

 

[amirm]

I am glad they answered the part about the connection to the service as without terminating that, the software would have failed to do anything useful.

 

[amirm]

Sorry to post a remark about Roon on this thread. But here goes:

Does anyone using Roon find themselves asking "is this really MY music?" Sometimes I feel like I'm getting new music for which I paid a long time ago.

Hey I am finding music I bought recently that I had forgotten I had bought .

 

[Rodney Gold]

I have over 8000 cd's I ripped , I also am finding nuggets in my local collection I never remembered I had bought...its wonderful....
Add TIDAL to that and Im in music lovers heaven, revisiting my collection and fleshing it out with tidal albums
I am a roonlifer..
In reality , there is nothing roon really does that another interface + search engines etc will do for "free" ...
The biggest obstacles roon has to overcome is that it costs money and that users familiar with other players feel more comfortable using them.

 

[Sauerball]

I have over 8000 cd's I ripped , I also am finding nuggets in my local collection I never remembered I had bought...its wonderful....
Add TIDAL to that and Im in music lovers heaven, revisiting my collection and fleshing it out with tidal albums
I am a roonlifer..
In reality , there is nothing roon really does that another interface + search engines etc will do for "free" ...
The biggest obstacles roon has to overcome is that it costs money and that users familiar with other players feel more comfortable using them.

Yes and no, maybe? It doesn't do anything necessarily different, yet here I am listening to stuff I forgot I had. Or, with Tidal, stuff I never knew I wanted. I'm impressed.

 

[FrantzM]

Waiting for Tidal to be available here in Haiti... Roon is impressing me by the day.

What I find most interesting is the lean interface.. Rich if you want to sparse most of the time and the richness of the Metadata!? I find myself being less and less nostalgic of the gate-folders.. Music is served in a very interesting and wealthier way with Roon. Wow!

 

[Blizzard]

Waiting for Tidal to be available here in Haiti... Roon is impressing me by the day.

What I find most interesting is the lean interface.. Rich if you want to sparse most of the time and the richness of the Metadata!? I find myself being less and less nostalgic of the gate-folders.. Music is served in a very interesting and wealthier way with Roon. Wow!

Now you just need to combine it with HQplayer for good sound

 

[FrantzM]

Now you just need to combine it with HQplayer for good sound

The Berkeley is not DSD and I am not entirely convinced ..yet.. maybe I don't have a DSD DAC of the Berkeley caliber... HQ is nice though and I will look more into it.