Is there any sound quality improvement with the new Roon 1.8? What are the improvements, if any?

[Martin_Webster]

@Sgr

But when I decide to build a new server I’m building it with two Xeons.

Adding to @ipeverywhere I also have a Xeon-based server that also hosts Roon among other things. Recently for convenience I moved Roon to an i3 NUC (ROCK) and guess what? No difference in “sound quality”.

Xeon is not really the optimal processor for Roon … from the horses mouth.

DSD512 - Is this even possible? [yes, just needs more cpu]

Roon uses 1 core per zone normally, or 2 if you enable “parallelize sigma delta modulator” setting and are doing DSD output. If you haven’t turned this on yet, try that first: [20 PM] In general, the “many slow cores” model like your XEON is not the best for Roon. Almost none of our users have this class of hardware, so putting in a ton of effort/complexity optimizing for horizontal scalability doesn’t make a lot of sense. This isn’t just about audio, either–for UI responsiveness it’s also adv…