Influence on sound quality from the server is even less than a digital transport. While a server from PS would be nice I’m happy they decided to drop it (for now?). It’s also one of those devices that will show significant diminishing returns. A budget for a streamer starts at about $50 and goes into the low 5 figures. I’m seriously looking forward to review but this is a tough space to show value. AirLens, on paper, appears to be the right design to feed it a bit perfect audio stream and it will get this stream up to the DAC with less jitter and noise than many other designs. There are excellent digital playback systems powered by Roon but it requires synergy like any other playback system to get there.īack to the PS discussion. edit: Most digital playback sounds dull and lifeless. However, you’ll no longer be feeding a bit perfect stream into the DAC. If one thinks Roon Core sounds flat or dull you can throw HQP into the path and you’ll get that sparkle back. You’re hearing closer to what your digital chain actually sounds like.
Now, I’m not one to believe bits are bits and we’re all hearing the same thing but if you’re using a network bridge / streamer then Core has no influence on the sound (as long as its not under-powered, network is up to the task, etc.). Roon Core sends bit perfect audio streams over the network.
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