Ah, OK, thanks. I don’t agree with you that the Qobuz app is useless. It has brought me an enormous amount of pleasure. But I am trying Roon because the integration with Qobuz looks sensible. As to whether Roon sounds better than Qobuz ... how is it you can hear that, yet couldn’t hear the difference between pass-through and 1M taps?
Roon works in mysterious ways and raat has always sounded good, thats something that roon got right. RAAT is roons advanced playback method. Whether it is actually better is unknown, I’m just happy to now be using something that isn’t a glitchy pile of schiit.
For me Qobuz was glitchy bad, songs would start, stop then start again, pop, clicks and snaps, the hires problem, sometimes the bloody songs wouldn’t load, same with the playlists. The entire thing was clunky. It’s that bad. And thats running from 2 dedicated ssd’s with i7 6700k cpu and 32GB ram. So there was no limitations hardware wise and everything else works ok. One ssd for qobuz app and another for it’s downloads.
Although I will admit, when qobuz works properly it sounds good, but it’s not tidal app good. Tidal walks all over it gui wise, and it’s smoothness. Qobuz feels like it’s still in alpha, nevermind beta.
As for the passthrough question. That was said when I only had my H2 and Mscaler and I still stand by it. On H2 for me and some others it’s nigh on impossible to hear the difference. Even now.
But I
did notice a difference, the difference I noticed was that passthrough sounded
nothing like Hugo 2 on it’s own, which passthrough is meant to be.
I mentioned me not being able to hear the differences in passthrough mode a few months ago, and off they all went. People who had their h2 + mscalers for a month or two before me started saying the same thing after I brought it up. What does that tell you ? It tells you that they sat for a couple of months before someone else bro.................. blah blah and my pm box does not lie.
But the good news is, I can reliably inform you that it’s very noticeable on TT2. All modes sound much better on TT2 than on H2. And I’m led to believe that on dave it’s even better.
I should also add that I went back to using Hugo 2 on it’s own the other day, and I was surprised at just how good Hugo 2 is. It feels like I just bought it for the first time all over again.