Distorded sound when streaming Tidal

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

One last thing to try. Please shut down Roon, shutdown NUC and laptop. Unplug their wall warts from the AC. Use your Lumin M1 and Lumin app to stream Tidal without the presence of any PC. Unplug all other non-essential power supplies from the AC including phone chargers. See if it still sounds the same.

If your conclusion is correct, you may consider room correction, starting here:

A guide how to do room correction and use it in Roon

I have experimented with REW (Room EQ Wizard) and room correction, and how to apply it in Roon, and decided to write a guide about it. This is what produced best result for me (I sit in a small room with concrete walls), but the way I did it should work well in bigger rooms and for different walls as well. This guide assumes you have a 2.0 or 2.1 system, and works best if you have a specific listening position and you sit in the middle of the sound, with an equal distance to left and right speak…