When you say Roon, you need to specify what hardware you are going to use with it. Roon started out as a software program and now they offer dedicated hardware to run the program on.
Purely as a software program, Roon beats the pants off of every other app, Bluesound included, except in Classical Music, where I didn’t detect any advantages during my free trial period. Roon’s effects on sound quality are debatable. Many audio critics opine that it degrades sound and during my trial I thought Bluesound was definitely better than Roon, but plenty of Forumistas that use Roon swear otherwise.
My advice, based on the rest of your system, would be to to use Roon not from a PC but from a streamer that has a lot of firepower, such as a Bryston or an Auralic player. Roon is a huge program that can overwhelm a PC (it did mine) and perhaps some of the perceived decrement sin sq may be from Computers that are otherwise taxed beyond their means. The dedicated media players are essentially computers that have been designed to stream and play music and provide a more user friendly interface than a PC.
Purely as a software program, Roon beats the pants off of every other app, Bluesound included, except in Classical Music, where I didn’t detect any advantages during my free trial period. Roon’s effects on sound quality are debatable. Many audio critics opine that it degrades sound and during my trial I thought Bluesound was definitely better than Roon, but plenty of Forumistas that use Roon swear otherwise.
My advice, based on the rest of your system, would be to to use Roon not from a PC but from a streamer that has a lot of firepower, such as a Bryston or an Auralic player. Roon is a huge program that can overwhelm a PC (it did mine) and perhaps some of the perceived decrement sin sq may be from Computers that are otherwise taxed beyond their means. The dedicated media players are essentially computers that have been designed to stream and play music and provide a more user friendly interface than a PC.