![]() ![]() Simple TP Link or NetGear, non-PoE switches are good enough. Cisco, Juniper etc) make no such claims about their equipment and are the equipment of choice for commercial use including record companies and studios. The standards ensure that this cannot be turned into a proprietary goat rodeo.īig manufacturers in the enterprise world (e.g. If they really did anything special with data payloads they would start to fall-out of the 802.1 specs for Ethernet and the TCP/IP specs too the downstream receiving node would not be able to decipher what it was being sent. Be very wary of manufacturer audiophile claims for their routers and switches. Ethernet has mechanisms in place to prevent the transmission of noise. I'll get shot for this here by some hobbyists, but you waste money on routers and switches. That is delivered "bit perfect" and if you are not doing any DSP (volume levelling, room correction etc), then the onward transmission from your Roon Core to your streamer/DAC is also bit perfect. Roon can't improve what comes from the streaming service. I keep Spotify because it does have the best artist/track radio algorithm. I only use Spotify for background listening in the car or on some Sonos boxes around the house - hardly ever for listening on my primary system. I believe it is worth it so that is the way my setup works. If you don't want mqa, then Roon could be seen as an expensive front-end for Qobuz and your own home-hosted audio files alone. ![]() Roon needs far more for its metadata needs in order to provide extensive, rich relationship information aiding in music discovery. This is due to other platforms refusing to share anything more than an API to their service. Roon is great, but does not do anything other than Tidal or Qobuz at present. ![]()
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