I recently discussed the listening experience with roon core with my audiophile friends, and we all enjoy its sleek, user-friendly interface for music management. However, we noted that there is room for improvement in sound quality, particularly since my friends use Audirvana Studio, which they find offers superior audio performance.
Despite this, we have no intention of switching from roon. We are just exploring ways to enhance the sound quality with roon setup, though there is one suggesting nucleus. I would welcome any insights or recommendations from others on improving the audio performance of roon.
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If you only use bit perfect payback, there is no way to improve sound quality. The Nucleus will make zero difference.
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Me upgrading to a high-quality DAC, and it improves a bit only.
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Have you optimized your speaker’s positioning or have you done some room treatment?
You may change the audio bits intentionally. This can be done by creating and using so called FIR filters for “room correction”. You may create such with REW which can take long time if you don’t know this tool. These filter files can then be imported to roon server pretty easily.
For sure, you could also start with using roon’s integrated MUSE EQ which is pretty powerful and needs careful tweaking to your liking.
Though, be reminded, all this is about “different”, not necessarily “better” for everyone’s ears.
And even more, certain tweaks may improve SQ of concrete music tracks but may decrease SQ of other tracks. So, whatever you do it will be always a compromise.
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But that has nothing to do with Roon, does it?
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Sound level match to within 0.2dB and report back
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but at least sounds improved a bit - bass and vocals enhanced.
I guess I misunderstood the question. I thought it was about improving the quality of Roon software, which was perceived to be somewhat inferior to Audirvana’s. Such a comparison would make sense if all else was equal. It would be fair to assume that a better DAC would improve the sound of both.
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No problem, thanks for your input. Does Nucleus makes any sense in this case?
You are somehow a bit stuck in analogue ideas, aren’t you? 
nuclues PC like hardware runs the same roon software as on any other hardware running roon server or ROCK. It’s all software. There’s no difference in SQ on any hardware running roon server or ROCK. It’s all digital 1:1. That’s been always the goal. And roon confirmed this several times.
From that base you may change audio bits intentionally by EQ to your liking, but again, identical results on all platforms.
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I went from Roon on windows PC to a Nucleus one and sound got better. Can only explain it with digital jitter added on the windows PC. So digital is not only 01. My experience. So hardware has a role too. It is playing on the exact same Audio gear and the same LAN cable.
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Thank you. A friend of mine mentioned the same, but he went from roon on mac to a nucleus and the sound got better.
Guys, please don’t extend this thread by this sort of discussion. It has been done for years already
It’s a fact that the brain influences your hearing/listening experience beyond your audio gear 
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I would suggest the bits are bits poster leave the thread and let server sound quality posters enjoy their discovery.
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The bits are bits posters would be proven wrong as soon as the server sound quality people post a single repeatable and logical fact. That’s how arguments are settled in a modern world.
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They are not trying to prove you wrong while bab are driven to do so. It’s a hobby and perception is big part of it. Perhaps the bab could make a sticky and post once pointing to it.
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Well you wanted one party to leave the discussion. If you don’t want to prove them wrong, you want to shut them up for no reason at all.
Nobody says that subjective perception isn’t a thing. The bits are bits people suggest precisely this.
If the server sound quality people want to suggest that it’s all subjective perception, then they should just do that, instead of making up fake/misunderstood technical explanations. Nobody will have anything against it.
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Just a suggestion which I will withdraw.
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