Krutsch - Any further improvements on Roon's SQ?
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I abandoned TIDAL in favor of Spotify. My wife, daughter and I have our own accounts and for 14.95/month we all get premium. Spotify's playlists are user curated and they wipe the floor with TIDAL's editorial staff curated playlists, so I canceled my TIDAL account.
I have Sonos speakers sprinkled throughout my house and that's what my family uses - they want me to keep my audiophile nonsense on my desk and away from them. Spotify Connect w/ their app into the Sonos speakers is great user experience.
Without TIDAL, Roon lost a lot of its shine for me. I am tired correcting tagging differences between my library and Roon's use of AllMusic.com's database. I am also sick of Roon's "Paw Masher" UI - I was vocal about this on their user forums, even triggering the moderators to run a poll to see who else wanted a change made to the playback UI. Fully half of their user base hates the Paw Masher, but they won't change anything.
Anyway... I am enjoying saving $20/month from TIDAL + $100/year from Roon.
I am exclusively using MPD playback on the BDP-1 w/ Soundirok. With USB sticks holding my entire FLAC library, it's the best sound, IMO.
For streaming services, I have a Sonos Connect sitting on top of my BDP-1 that runs through a Wyred4Sound Remedy to clean-up the S/PDIF TOSLINK output into my DAC.
Honestly, 320 Mbps Ogg files from Spotify sound just great for previewing new music and if I really like something, I buy/rip the CD or download from HDTracks. Same with Amazon Prime music and Sirius XM streaming.
Sorry for the TL;DR response...