High Quality sound

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Roon Core Machine

Intel Nuc headless

Networking Gear & Setup Details

Connected Audio Devices

Number of Tracks in Library

Description of Issue

I was getting high quality then it changed to enhanced and do not know what I did any ideas anybody.
Many thanks

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The signal path should give an indication why it has changed.
My Cambridge shows up as enhanced since it automatically upsamples everything to 384 kHz.

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You’re upsampling which by definition is not bit perfect. However, enhanced does not imply inferior. In fact it may sound better to you. That’s a matter of perspective.

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Hi Victor,
to achieve better answers it would be very helpful to fill out the given support template in your first post (you can still edit-in the information).
Also give us a screenshot of your signal path info to gaze at - says more than a thousand words.

Good luck!

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This is the hierarchy of sound quality as published by a third party Roon guide.

  • Bright Purple: Lossless – the stream is going from the file to the device without being modified.
  • Shining Blue: Enhanced – Roon is performing some user-selected signal processing on the audio (volume leveling, DSP Engine, etc.)
  • Green: High Quality – OS Mixer outputs, or conversions for compatibility, and DSP volume.
  • Yellow: Low quality – lossy file format playback.

By my reckoning lossless or enhanced are both better than high quality. To better understand what the indications mean look at the Roon knowledge base.

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Describe you setup as to what’s connected to what and what method of connection you’re using for Roon to play music to your audio devices . Sounds like you’re either using non exclusive system output of a pc or perhaps Airplay to play music. Both of which will not show as lossless.

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