SleepyOne
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That is the question I would like to ask everyone - which is your favorite way to stream music?
I am still experimenting & have tried lots of different modes except HQPlayer which I dearly love to test but lost the free trial due to accident on installation. So far for me I don't like LMS so much although it is actually somewhat similar sounding to Roon but just feel thinner & a bit plasticky. Roon on the other hand sound more like music gone though a classic valve amp with nice spatial depth, thicker sound, more presence, non digital but poor spatial width. Very musical but its characteristic seems to apply to all music.. I have also tried bubbleUpnp which I don't like and use Minimserver instead. For the remote control I use Linn Kazoo or Lumin and oddly they do not sound the same even though Minimserver/DLNA is being used as their server! Lumin has better spatial & possibly more detail but timing slower(?) whereas Linn is more forward (vocal is more magnified), possibly a touch less detail(?) and seems to have more silence delineating between things (maybe artificial?) but it sounds more polished as a product. Both however is more like standard digital presentation though. I have also tried Foobar with either BubbleUpnp (not good) or Minimserver, it sounds acceptable with usual Foobar sound (like detail) but no jitter. Thus only 2 main players missing - JPlay & HQPlayer. As JPlay free trial is very basic so I can't try that with microRendu.... I will be testing HQPlayer once I get a NUC (Linux based) - sadly by the time I set up everything my trial with Roon will be at an end so won't be able to link them up.
In term of software, Roon is most polished/ professional and integrated with Tidal very nicely. But cost is perhaps too high - if their player improves then might reconsider... As for Lumin/ Kazoo stability seems a bit touchy though (but workable) and in term of UI, Linn looks pro & Lumin a bit cowboy. LMS stability seems fine but don't like the web control thing though.
In term of microRendu, very stable & easily switch between the different modes.
Whichever way very glad my jitter nightmare is now a thing of the past.
All of this I suspect is quite system dependent so please take it with a good pinch of salt!!
I am still experimenting & have tried lots of different modes except HQPlayer which I dearly love to test but lost the free trial due to accident on installation. So far for me I don't like LMS so much although it is actually somewhat similar sounding to Roon but just feel thinner & a bit plasticky. Roon on the other hand sound more like music gone though a classic valve amp with nice spatial depth, thicker sound, more presence, non digital but poor spatial width. Very musical but its characteristic seems to apply to all music.. I have also tried bubbleUpnp which I don't like and use Minimserver instead. For the remote control I use Linn Kazoo or Lumin and oddly they do not sound the same even though Minimserver/DLNA is being used as their server! Lumin has better spatial & possibly more detail but timing slower(?) whereas Linn is more forward (vocal is more magnified), possibly a touch less detail(?) and seems to have more silence delineating between things (maybe artificial?) but it sounds more polished as a product. Both however is more like standard digital presentation though. I have also tried Foobar with either BubbleUpnp (not good) or Minimserver, it sounds acceptable with usual Foobar sound (like detail) but no jitter. Thus only 2 main players missing - JPlay & HQPlayer. As JPlay free trial is very basic so I can't try that with microRendu.... I will be testing HQPlayer once I get a NUC (Linux based) - sadly by the time I set up everything my trial with Roon will be at an end so won't be able to link them up.
In term of software, Roon is most polished/ professional and integrated with Tidal very nicely. But cost is perhaps too high - if their player improves then might reconsider... As for Lumin/ Kazoo stability seems a bit touchy though (but workable) and in term of UI, Linn looks pro & Lumin a bit cowboy. LMS stability seems fine but don't like the web control thing though.
In term of microRendu, very stable & easily switch between the different modes.
Whichever way very glad my jitter nightmare is now a thing of the past.
All of this I suspect is quite system dependent so please take it with a good pinch of salt!!