I have been using Innuos Sense but have trialled Roon a few times going as far back as 2016. Any suggestions why this time would be different due to developments at Roon?
Essentially roon = roon, regardless of version.
However roon 2.0 is more stable.
Having said that, it’s pretty much always been stable for me, in 1.7 and 1.8.
Roon 2.0 revised the gui and I really can’t recall what changes were made. Search is better. Radio feature is allegedly better curated (in the sense that it doesn’t drift off randomly from the starting point).
The screenshots on the website will show you what it looks like.
With Qobuz Connect I think Roon will become a redundant service, unless you want Roon’s feature that integrates locally stored audio files. I can do without the latter because I think all I have ripped/downloaded is available via Qobuz anyway. I can also just hang a USB drive off my NDX2 and put it in server mode if I still want to play those files.
Looks like I might start saving that $130/yr cost for Roon when it comes up for renewal this year.
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I’d also say that the Roon 60-day trail offer is suspect that Roon is running scared now that both TIDAL Connect and Qobuz Connect are out. That leaves a lot less room for Roon to tell a compelling story about their service.
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I took the innuos sense route which seamlessly integrates local and qobuz files. See no advantage to Roon, but thought I could be missing something.