My Roon is always buggy - need a bit of advice

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Also, I’d never thought of it, but this suggestion to “downsample” to 16 bits instead of 24 for all your Sonos zones is a really great idea. This thread is useful reading…

How to throttle Sound Quality to Sonos speakers, and not to other Roon endpoints

Although I’ve seen conflicting info on this over the years, most of the older Sonos devices are only capable of handling 44/16 streams, although Sonos advertises that its devices will handle up to 48/24 without openly disclosing which ones actually are limited to a 44/16 max. Roon appears to use the default of 48/24 for all Sonos devices, so as @Michael_Harris indicated, one can (should imo) reduce the Max bits per sample (PCM) in Device setup to 16, especially on older devices, and even consid…