Please good people… what do I need to start Roon? I’m new here and I don’t know nothing.
I have only Samsung Galaxy S24+, Wimm Ultra and Argon Audio Activ speakers.
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Maybe start by reading this.
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You are only missing a server. Most people just start with using their laptop/gaming pc as server and then move over to NUC/mac minis/NAS etc.
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Try reading some guides.
If, as you say, you currently only have a Samsung Galaxy S24+, a Wimm Ultra and Argon Audio activ speakers, the question might not be so much what you need to start with ROON, but what your interest in and objective with ROON is? In short: what do you want ROON to do for you?
… I would like to use Roon for make better sound quality… I have Tidal and Spotify.
From what I’ve read, the Galaxy S24 can’t play higher than 48Khz without additional software. However, that should be good enough for most people. If you want higher resolution you need to modify your phone or use a different source to stream. The Wiim Ultra can stream higher resolutions and you don’t need Roon for that. Tidal streams up to 24/192 on the Wiim.
Roon does two things that you may or may not need. It is a music library management system and it allows multi-room playback over your home network. With the addition of ARC, it also allows remote access to your personal library. One of the additional benefits of Roon is it can apply DSP to any of your endpoints such as your phone or your speakers. However, discounting DSP Roon can’t improve the sound over what you can get with your Wiim and the native Tidal app.
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Welcome @Zoran_Bacalja to the forum.
Hold on, this journey that you are fixing to partake in will be a good one no matter what direction you go in because it is not static and will be a constant change as your journey carries on.
Enjoy!
–MD
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That’s not what ROON is for. ROON can ensure that the best sound quality you have gets delivered in the best way possible to your gear, but ROON cannot and will not improve the sound quality you already have. That is not its primary function.
If you have a Wiim Ultra and Argon Audio activ speakers, and they are set up great, and you have a Samsung Galaxy S24+ to operate these (that’s what I assume your setup refers to), there is very little that ROON can do for you. At this point in time. I don’t mean that as a limitation, your setup may just be great. Enjoy your music. But I don’t think spending money on ROON should be your primary focus, and I say that as someone who enjoys what ROON is and can do.
Because the money you would spend on ROON, you could better invest otherwise. The WiiM Ultra is a great device, and while I don’t know your speakers, there isn’t really anything ROON can do for you to improve your sound quality. That is not ROON’s primary objective.
Thanks soo much..i agree with you..!!
This is my third year with Roon, and it does a lot of things, but it is hardly guaranteed to be a good journey.
ARC never worked for me, and only streams in lossy anyway. Other lockers are better.
Multi-room support is for rich folk with multiple systems connected to the core. If OP is using mobile as a controller for Spotify / Tidal on an affordable amp, this is of limited appeal.
Music management is better if one is collecting a digital library and needs help with the chore of tagging, but for streaming other options are more elegant.
Music discovery may be, at least for me, something of interest, but even that doesn’t please everybody.
This application is an acquired taste, and just spinning that it’s going to be just great no matter what is too rich.
Anyhow I think OP has a answer now.
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Did you change your streaming quality settings in the ARC app?
Sorry to hear this. For me at least it has been a good journey. I guess it really depends on how you use Roon. I would prefer to encourage a newcomer than not. His ups and downs will become his journey good or bad and I am wishing him well.
–MD
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Interesting. Happy to be proven wrong there.
Thanks Mike… yes Roon is still charming, even given it’s quite the investment. And firing music up after a bad day or two, which has been my recent past, is worthy of support.
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See the various settings and what they mean here:
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