After having my Lumin U1Mini for two years (and using Roon with it) - I recently discovered this #ROONONLY optimization. I have been listening to track after track for the last 2 days, comparing these two:
Qobuz & Local → Audrivana on a 2015 MacMini (i5/8 gig) → USB → Denifrips Aries
to
Qobuz & Local → Roon on RoonRoc (Dell i5/8 gig) → Lumin U1Mini → Coax → Denifrips Aries
Strangely whenever I try to use Audrivana with my Lumin within an hour or two I get issues and have to stop and sometime restart the Mac or the Lumin… so something is wrong in the UPnP/Plāys with Audirvāna, but USB into my DAC works fine.
I learned over much testing that I prefer no upsampling in Roon or Audrivana or in the Lumin, instead letting my Denifrips Aries DAC upsample everything to PCM 1411.2/PCM1536/DSD512
Before #ROONONLY the Audrivana had some clear advantages, especially when listening to bass. Now, the difference is much smaller, or goes back and forth between Roon and Audrivana.
Roon’s superior library management, ability to cast song & lyrics to my Sony TV, rock solid RoonRoc implementation (even through upgrades), plus all the music I browse into makes it amazing, and I am truly glad #ROONONLY closed the gap.
I will continue to rest Roon with my Lumin on #ROONONLY vs. Audrivana without the Lumin, but I think this is a keeper