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My intuition tells me that if you're not using Roon's audio player for playback, then the DSP options would not be available. Can you confirm by checking your Zone options and seeing if the Volume Leveling option is still available?I'm interested in trying the HQ Player to see if I can gain any fidelity, but I won't even attempt if I have to use Replay Gain.
Yes, the sound leveling works with HQPlayer.
iPeng is a control point (remote), not a music player. LMS can function as a player, or you can use any LMS compatible player, such as Innuos, Squeezebox, etc.
I've just been listening to Holly Cole's "Night" album, a well-recorded 48kHz 24-bit FLAC downloaded from HDTracks onto the internal disks of my NAD M50.2 vault/player. The M50.2 is connected directly via an Audioquest Coffee AES/EBU cable to my NAD M32 amp with no external DAC or preamp in the path. I can play music via NAD's native BluOS or Roon, with the M50.2 serving as Roon Endpoint.I listened to "Night" tracks back-to-back on the two different platforms and there is no question that, at equal volume levels, Roon has a more "crystalline" sound than BluOS. My ears are almost 69 years old, so I appreciate it in most cases. However, if a recording is inherently harsh I'll switch to BluOS, which warms the sound a bit.I also compared Pink Floyd's "Delicate Sound of Thunder," (96kHz 24-bit FLAC), and was a bit surprised to find that I didn't note any loss of weight or bass with Roon vs BluOS. And, fortunately, I don't find Roon "dry and Hi Fi sounding" as Rollo did.