Yep! I agree that I don't think it would make sense for you with your setup. I'm really enjoying the NUC now though. It has been nice not having to run it off my main computer at home. I'm digging the new layout and features so far but need to mess with it more!
i do like the idea of the things Valence can do.. as well as the magazine and the new design to make classical music easier to comprehend to those aficionados (who probably buy like DSD512 and subscribe to qobuz), i feel like if a more standalone player was able to do this stuff it would be a buy in a heartbeat... though i really like foobar's customization, and audirvanas integration with tidal (all the way to giving you the bitrate), its not the ultimate AIO experience
How long were you using it for? This is a good argument for not making snap judgments on audio gear. There have been plenty of times where I bought something new and thought that I didn't notice much of a difference. Then after weeks or months of listening to it, when I went back to the way it was, I noticed a very large difference. Your ears get trained a bit and things you thought were subtle really start to jump out when you switch back to the old gear.
i had it on with JUST the isilencer on it and just left it there for about a month or so...
Yep! This is why it's difficult to just listen to something quickly and try to hear a difference. I know my ears definitely aren't good enough to notice something like that immediately. I have noticed it with my DAC and other items in my audio chainm whereas when I first got it, I noticed some small differences but now it seems night and day to what I was using before.
I decided to get Roon, and all I have is Quobuz. No NAS or other offline library. I had been on the fence after enjoying it for a trial run, but didnt love the navigation. My logic is the discovery aspect will be worth the cost to me. I'm betting I'll find multiple new artists I really like per month, and that's incredibly valuable to me. Also, the 1.8 is definitely easier to navigate and there's an entertainment value to the info I can read on the artists
I have been using it a little over a year now. I use it every single day. I really like the new updates so far and I do find that when connected to Qobuz, I do discover new music pretty regularly. The real strength to me is blending my downloaded music seamlessly with Qobuz. According to the stats on the updated Roon interface, I'm at 920 albums between downloads and Qobuz favorites (almost 12,000 songs) and it doesn't skip a beat.
This is what I envy about roon
I thought ya didn't have tons of downloaded music? Or you just store it on your laptop?
i store it on my laptop.. i dont have a streamer or anything but i have 100 gigs of exclusively MP3 and FLAC audio on both my phone and my laptop (i have a good sized SD card and UAPP to make my LG a DAP)
Gotcha. Yea that's the other really nice thing with Roon. I have a bunch of MP3s but it will recommend the Qobuz version as my main version to listen to, or replace Qobuz versions with higher res FLACs. Other times, I may have a lower res version but I like that mastering better so I want Roon to prefer that version when listening, so it's all very simple. I tried JRiver and a few other similar apps and just found the interfaces annoying or not very practical to use. I used the Aries lightning app for a bit and it just wasn't a great UI.
WAYYYYY too late for that
I’m not sure that one app can do all of that (and is also free)! Others may be more knowledgeable than me though.
