Sound quality - not as good as other programs?

[R1200CL]

so the machine running Roon Core, and the quantity of processes running on it, has no effect at all on SQ?if so… why ROCK?

1. ROCK is very helpful from a support standpoint as a lot of the issues with using Roon on a general-purpose system are now gone. Now MS updates breaking things, no virus/firewall programs, no strange network drivers. Just a known-good configuration and a very simple OS.

2. The core can have problems delivering when installed on a machine that is more of a general-purpose computer. Roon uses a lot of resources and when the computer is resource-constrained then Roon starts having problems (usually slow browsing and/or dropouts).

ROCK addresses these two issues (and others) by providing a very streamlined and simple platform on which to run Roon. No management. No OS updates. No fuss.

I taught I was joking when I commented on SQ in my privious post.

And people have started to purchase HW, waiting for Rock, believing, I think, they most likely will achive better SQ.

Intel NUC & sonicTransporter: A Tale Of Two Mini Computers Running Roon Core

I suppose until Rock propperly tested on different HW and setup, people should considder the SonicTransporter as their best option for Roon core.

The only issue I can think about is how the SonicTransporter will implement Roon Extentions, as I would expect Rock to have that feature implemented.