Does Roon change something, when it sends music to HQPlayer

[Sloop_John_B (John B)]

Okay Roon is doing nothing to the signal but neither is HQPLAYER, you have not selected any upsampling filters?

You may be having a similar issue to this poster

HQPlayer Settings For Chord DAC Users

it seems like my question (which i might add i have seen asked before and also ignored) was lost in the shuffle. My question is can someone explain how a track played from HQ player can sound better when played directly through the HQ player than when that same track is played via the HQ player via Roon?

.sjb