DannyBoyNYC
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I tried Roon with both Qobuz and Tidal. Qobuz had more tasteful recommendations that Tidal but in the end I disliked Roon's awkward multiroom capabilities (unlinking and relinking in order to change configurations?!) and its much lauded "dig deeper" capabilities fell flat compared to simple internet searches. I enjoyed its PEQ capabilities and informative sampling, resolution and chain information but in the end it was not enough to keep me on board. The fact that I had to pay for two services meant that they fell to the knife in my twice yearly "culling of the subscriptions" and I went back to Spotify (can't cancel due to family) and Apple Music (crappy, mass market oriented) which I get as part of a larger subscription package (and allows me to listen to Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and other artists who've dropped from Spotify for one reason or another).
I use Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil on a headless server and primarily Spotify Connect for sending and for whole house audio and do not have a library that I care about maintaining or growing. I never use the manufacturer supplied apps for music selection or streaming. Airplay support is important to me but I almost never use it via MacOS or iOS (its a hot mess) unless streaming from Apple's excellent Classical Music app which is currently iOS only.
My systems (4 in total) would probably be labelled "mid-fi" by most audiophiles (WiiM, Fosi, NAD) but I don't believe I'll achieve appreciably better sound by paying big $$$ for audiophile boxes and cables - apart from speakers that is. I'm sure many will say something along the lines of "your system isn't resolving enough to appreciate..." but for me its less about the gear and more about the music.
I use Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil on a headless server and primarily Spotify Connect for sending and for whole house audio and do not have a library that I care about maintaining or growing. I never use the manufacturer supplied apps for music selection or streaming. Airplay support is important to me but I almost never use it via MacOS or iOS (its a hot mess) unless streaming from Apple's excellent Classical Music app which is currently iOS only.
My systems (4 in total) would probably be labelled "mid-fi" by most audiophiles (WiiM, Fosi, NAD) but I don't believe I'll achieve appreciably better sound by paying big $$$ for audiophile boxes and cables - apart from speakers that is. I'm sure many will say something along the lines of "your system isn't resolving enough to appreciate..." but for me its less about the gear and more about the music.
Vinyl path is analog all the way to the speakers, all other sources are room corrected using the MiniDSP FLEX.
My car is the main place I'd listen and I don't because my wife is almost entirely deaf, and as such music (with a lumpy bandwidth for her of about 2K) really disturbs her, so I refrain. There's no chance of streaming to my car in rural Spain in a valley with no 3g let alone 4g or higher, so I still use CDs or a re-broadcast device, when I am driving on my own.
