Anyone notice any sound quality change with 1.8? I swear things are a tad thinner sounding to me, a bit less mid bloom on down, but if nobody else hears any difference I’m fine to chalk it up to audio nervosa or whatever else. I double checked my settings, everything looks to be the same. EDIT/UPD…

Important to state: I do not use any form of DSP.

Hi @Diethard_Wehn and welcome to the Roon forum. [image] Diethard_Wehn: Wouldn’t it be a 3 line statement of the Roon people to tell us whether they changed any remarkable things in sound processing with 1.8? Put aside DSP and just look at “bit-perfect” which is viewed as a “gold standard” f…

expectation bias works both ways.

Even my vinyl sounds better. 1.8 is magic :innocent:

[image] Christian_DEPLANTE: …background noise during signal reproduction has gone lower… Well, that’s not possible technically with bit-perfect transport - which has been proven - because this background noise must be part of the encoded signal. But if you are inferring that the noise is bei…

Hello, Not this time. For me it was clear since the first seconds. Emotion was gone but I agree it is not something you can find on many systems. Using the Antipodes music server squeeze player allows to recover emotions so it is not psychological. Regards,

Ha, true. Blind to the fact what the test was.

[image] killdozer: Put aside DSP and just look at “bit-perfect” which is viewed as a “gold standard” for digital audio transport. How can Roon announce an improvement? They’ve been selling a “bit-perfect” player for a few releases. To suggest this has been improved in 1.8 is to suggest users of …

It’s not so complicated if you lay out the permutations. There are 2 noted changes that might affect SQ in this release: change to audio pipe cpu/memory utilization or any other electric/noise impacting changes changes to DSP dithering. This effectively generates 4 different use-cases in order o…

Roon 1.8 sound quality change?

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Margaret_Charlton (Margaret Charlton) February 12, 2021, 3:55pm 152

Top trolling. Bravo.