IMO most folks on this forum and Audiophilestyle know that ROON's SQ is not its best attribute, the GUI and song management is. Many use ROON's front end with HQPlayer as the back end with phenomenal results. I believe not too long ago it was purported that ROON + HQP's sq was on par with Taiko's solution. I say this not to in any way disparage Taiko, only to inject a bit of reality that ROON alone is employed significantly less than assumed on this thread so the comparison to taiko's solution is predominantly meaningless.Roon has for sure taken a turn for the worse, since the big Taiko software update in February. At that time, there was a period where Roon was sounding very good, but I think we all had that feeling that it was shortlived, and the other shoe would inevitably drop. It has. Roon has gotten worse again, and TAS is the gold standard.