Just a question, I know that there’s minimum specs for hardware to run Roon Server so that i can resample and do DSP etc. on the fly. I see that in Arc all that processing is available in the phone itself e.g. it downsamples from 192Khz to 48Khz direct on the Iphone, for example.
So hence my question, is the same high quality level of processing built into the Arc app and our phones can handle it just as well as our dedicated Roon Server machines? Just curious
It’s not the same. ARC doesn’t do DSD or convolution filters, for instance
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It’s in the digital domain the maths doesn’t change and is the same on either. On mobile compromises have to be made for slower cpu, less memory and slower storage so efficiency is the key here. On ARC It does a lot less than Roon server does to help here and it just has the basics needed to apply eq, sample/bit depth conversions and headroom volume management. You don’t get nearly as many options as they won’t be efficient and drag the performance down or just won’t operate. You can’t build complex trees of different processing like you can in Roon, it has no convolution engine and no DSD processing. The stuff it does should in theory match Roon as it’s all the same maths, different kit doesn’t change this it’s just not as efficient overall. It’s all at the expense of the systems meagre resources and likely affect battery performance and generate more heat.
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