Do Tidal/Qobuz streams go through/via the Roon Core?

[Marten_Sytema]

Hi Folks,

I’m new to Roon, currently trialing.

I have a Bluesound node 2i streamer, and I use Tidal. I was wondering, since Roon uses a Core architecture, is the datastream from Tidal going through my Roon Core, on to the Bluesound?

Or will Roon Core just instruct/pass off the stream to the Bluesound, where the data stream goes from Tidal to my bluesound directly (and basically ‘only’ serve as a database / metadata / music collection manager) ?

Cheers,

Marten

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

All streams go to the Core, which then processes them into LPCM and the Core sends that to the endpoints.

[Marten_Sytema]

Thanks!

Also I felt that sometimes I could here a difference between Tidal Connect via the Tidal app and the same song played via Roon.

Am I delusional?

PS: fwiw, I have an Hegel h95 amp, and some Kef LS50meta’s and the Kef KC62 subwoofer.

[BCBC (Somewhere in British Columbia)]

@Marten_Sytema

Am I delusional?

Hard to say

However the sound will change if you’ve enabled any of the DSP settings in ROON. I upsample and find it makes an significant difference.

[james_macdonald1 (james macdonald)]

I noticed this the other day on my zen stream,tidal connect sounds noticebly better than through roon,other members actually told me that this has been reported before by many users

[Marten_Sytema]

Funny, because I thought it was the other way around actually. Different streamer though, so…

So far I like the ergonomics of Roon, in that it automatically connects to my streamer and I don’t have to re-setup that all the time. Also I already prefer the roon suggestion to those of Tidal (I kind of got in a ‘most listened’ loop on normal Tidal.)