How are you judging things? Improved audio performance?
I had the impression of a light SQ uptick. As Iāve subsequently changed my set-up, though, (new amplifier, power cords, interconnects, and ethernet switch), at this point I obviously canāt say much about that anymore. Based on the posts in this thread, it would seem that I āimaginedā things, even though Iām still waiting for a clear explanation as to why the update couldnāt possibly alter the SQ.
Iām specifically intrigued about
Lucky you! Others, it seems, are losing theirs because of massive problems. 
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How could the road improve the quality of the apples in a cargo truck?
Roon is just an infrastructure. Takes digital audio from point A to B.
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Anders herum wird ein Schuh darausā¦ A bumpy road damages the applesā¦ bad analogy I believe.
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Bit errors in digital music are very audible. But bit errors basically dont exist.
Jitter can provoke distorsion. But with todays buffering and re-clocking of data
in devices, ROON can affect that very little by network transport timing.
But for sure ROON wont improve the quality from the original if no DSP is active.
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Donāt disagree with you on this.
And yet, there are quite a few people who prefer Audirvana SQ over Roon. Are they all mistaken? After all, both Roon and Audirvana just push bits around.
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Nope.
But wait ā¦
What if the source code was compiled on a computer powered by a LPS?
Now I start hearing it too.
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I noticed an almost immediate but subtle change in the sound quality, though was extremely hesitant to say so on this forum as Iām not mentally ill, nor anti-science, nor a snake oil dupe, which is sadly how itāll be painted by many here. Just sensitive hearing I suppose. But I did notice it on both of my major endpoints.
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My feelings and impressions exactly! As soon as you touch on a controversial topic (Roon SQ, interconnects, ethernet switches ā¦), expect to be taken for an audiophool.
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There is a slight but still noticeable uptick in transparency.
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In my main system I perfer HQPlayer SQ over both Audirvana and Roon. I did try Audirvana which sounds good but I felt like there was a false set of reality around the sound, especially with classic rock or older music. Meaning I thought I lost soundstage and dynamics but the bass was present more. It seemed to me that many of the dynamics were stuck in the back of the speaker and Audirvana required a different kind of convolution filter than I have so thatās where I stopped. Just my opinion though, please take with a grain of salt 
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The interesting fact is that you felt that Audirvana sounded different! That is something the bits-are-bits crowd wouldnāt admit is actually possible.
By the way, I also believe that Audirvana sounds different, but itās not very much to my liking (over longer listening stretches, I find it fatiguing). I prefer Roonās sound, and what with Roonās overall level of functionality, thereās no contest.
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Yes, I do believe it sounds different, when not looking at things in numbers on a whiteboard and listening subjectively and I donāt want to start that conversation. I also have a substantial hearing loss in my right ear which plays a big factor for me. But I do believe that all of these services use different filters for sound signature, could be wrong, unless if you send source to your dac and let that do all of the legwork.
Did you A-B test audirvana against ROON?
I.e someone at the sticks and you ignorant?
How am I to read this?
There were no substantial changes to Roon Bridge in this release, just minor bug fixes not related to audio playback.
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The lossless audio sounds even more lossless now, itās amazing. The -ādb pitch black silence sounds even more ā now. Really impressed how roon can keep making digital audio sound better with every incremental product release.
Hehe, Someone is switching and you dont know which? Blindfolded?