Is it me or does Roon degrade sound

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DSP Enable lowers Sound Quality

That’s true if you start with 16bit and end with 16bit, but that’s not what Roon does. In Roon, if you start with 16bit and do a -3dB headroom adjustment, the process looks like this: [57 PM] Notice that the stream going to the DAC is 32bits, not 16. This is because Roon expands headroom when performing DSP to 64bits (since 64bit float is our intermediate format). Then, when it’s preparing to stream to the device, it converts to the widest format that the device supports. In this case, 32bi…

DSP Enable lowers Sound Quality

Turning on the DSP Engine switch does nothing whatsoever. It’s actually active in the off position–it’s a detail of the graphic design that we present it as turning something “on”. In the off position, its behavior is a shortcut for flipping the enable switches on each of the sections in the DSP Engine to “off” if they are not already off. It does nothing extra. When “on” it has no effect at all–just the absence of forcibly turning that other stuff off. But–if those switches are already off, t…