Roon fans?

[NDA]

I subscribe to Spotify for ease of use (and Tesla) and Amazon HD for high res. My NAS has around 10,000 tracks, the vast majority of which can be found on Spotify or Amazon.

So... Roon?! I am two days into trialling it and it looks great - very tempted. But a monthly cost of (from memory) 12 just for library management seems a bit of a luxury... and yet....!

I am about to change my hifi from a NAD M10 into Ruark via MF amps, to the KEF LS60's. That doesn't make a huge difference I guess for a Roon discussion other than maybe I might switch from Amazon HD to Qobuz and a better Roon experience if I stick with it beyond the trial.

Will the new (ish) KEF Connect app offer a better Amazon HD experience than the NAD's clunky blue sound app? No idea until I have the new speakers.

What do others think of Roon? Waste of money?

[NDA]

How are you ripping your CD's? The last rips I tried were a bit choppy in audio quality.

[NDA]

Thanks - some really useful views.

I guess the game changer for me might be to abandon Amazon HD and sign up to TIDAL or Qobuz - integrating that with Roon...

I do like Roon, it presents my library in a very good way.

I'm not a techie and have Roon on my M1 MacBook Pro - my music is on a NAS drive. It would be good to have Roon on the NAS, but I don't think I'm up to the challenge of doing it.

[NDA]

I've signed up for the Qobuz trial - it looks good. I will cancel my Amazon HD sub.

[NDA]

I thought I'd update this thread as I've discovered something quite cool....

I am now a dedicated Roon/Qobuz user and can't quite imagine life without it. I use the KEF LS60's and am very impressed with them. I have moved the Roon Core to a remote M1 Mac Mini. It's all hard wired to the library, core and speakers.

The DSP (Digital Signal Processing) is excellent on Roon but I always wanted some room correction - not that I specifically needed it, just the gadget magpie that lurks within.

I've just downloaded 'HouseCurve' - a mobile app - on my iPhone. HouseCurve is room correction and the corrected files can be imported into Roon within 'Convolution' as a filter. It works very well.

As usual with room correction, you need to play a (supplied) sine wave which HouseCurve records. You then correct the measured curve and export the file. If you take multiple measurements then you need to zip those and import the zip into Roon.

It's a tiny bit fiddly as you need a mobile phone and then you need to get the corrected file (s) from your phone onto your laptop to be able to import into Roon. You can email it, or AirDrop it etc. If I can do it, anyone can.

It has made a difference. Definitely.

There's a free trial which gives you one export. The app is £5.99 to buy - I've bought it... price of a pint.

Anyhoo, I thought I'd post this up for the small group of Roon users on here.

Edited by NDA on Friday 10th March 08:04

[NDA]

Having recently got into active/wireless speakers, I was drawn to Roon as my speakers (KEF LS60's) were 'Roon Ready'. I have a moderately large library and Roon offers a very good way to blend Qobuz and my library seamlessly. And much of my listening is high res.... I also like going down musical rabbit holes, which Roon is designed for.

The DSP combined with clever and robust software make it easy to live with.

I don't know the NAIM system, will Roon read files on the uniti core? If so, try a Roon free trial.

[NDA]

With the amount I've spent on hifi, £140 a year is a small sum for a superbly crafted library management system and the ease of connecting my system with excellent DSP management.

I listen to a lot of music, so it's worthwhile.

[NDA]

I thought I'd ask a new question here - as I am curious about something....

Anyone added the HQplayer into Roon?

I've been doing a bit of reading on the subject and it looks tempting, but there are a couple of things I'm unclear about.