Awful performance/audio drops/skips

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@Scott_Weaver

It just seems like the processing power I have at my command should be able to make short work on this stuff

As far as playing music, it’s my understanding that single core performance rather than the number of cores is what is important for Roon. I know my i5 NUC runs Roon better than the dual Xeon motherboard I was running it on.

In that regard see this -

DSD512 - Is this even possible? [yes, just needs more cpu]

Roon uses 1 core per zone normally, or 2 if you enable “parallelize sigma delta modulator” setting and are doing DSD output. If you haven’t turned this on yet, try that first: [20 PM] In general, the “many slow cores” model like your XEON is not the best for Roon. Almost none of our users have this class of hardware, so putting in a ton of effort/complexity optimizing for horizontal scalability doesn’t make a lot of sense. This isn’t just about audio, either–for UI responsiveness it’s also adv…

As for Audio Analysis, what do you have your cores set to?

Also, are you doing any DSP? Probably not, as this is just a trial.