In previous versions of Roon i have always had the impression that a stream from Qobuz/Tidal was cached in the Roon Server as fast as possible, and then delivered in a more or less real time fashion to the endpoint(s).
This seem to have changed, either due to Roon restructuring or perhaps Qobuz changes in their CDN’s previously.
Looking at Performance Monitor in Windows (my server choice), this snapshot is from a couple of minutes into the song playing. (Birds- Dominique Fils Aime, 5th Element 24B-88.2K)
Note the Receive column, at around 800Kbps… This has previously been done within 10Seconds of a song chnage/initialization.
My Internet speed is not significant, but 100Mbps should be fine to stream this kind of material, at least 20 times in in parallell!
Any reflections on the subject from other observant users?