I just went through this drill, except my Node 2i is on wifi. After fending off tons of “can’t use wifi on Bluesound” posts, I found two workarounds. (For reasons too long to go through, it’s not practical for me to hardwire right now so that advice was not helpful.)
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I got a Raspberry pi which is a WAY cleaner endpoint on wifi than the Node.
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If I use the BluOs and select Roon as the output on THAT software first, rather than starting to play music on Roon and selecting the Node as the endpoint, the signal cleans right up and I don’t get sputter or other junk. This makes no sense to me, but it is what it is.
I believe you indicated that playing thru BluOS was better, which may be the same thing I discovered.
BTW, it seems that everyone on Roon forums blames Bluesound, and the Bluesound house techs I talked to blamed Roon. Lots of buck passing and finger pointing.
FWIW, here’s a link to a very long troubleshooting discussion that may have a useful nugget or two for you.