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RE: Its an eminently practical product

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AbeCollins

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In Reply to: RE: Its an eminently practical product posted by tketcham on November 13, 2023 at 05:45:46

You PAY FOR Roon but great products are often not FREE. On the other hand LMS / piCorePlayer are very popular and won't cost you a dime.

If you go the Roon route I highly recommend NOT buying a Nucleus. You can save a ton of money by just installing Roon on a decent PC/Mac.... preferably a small quiet one like a Mac Mini or Intel NUC.

The installation and setup are very user friendly as are software updates. Roon default settings just work but you do have a lot of flexibility to change things if you choose to dig deeper.

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RE: Its an eminently practical product - tketcham 03:21:23 11/17/23 (2)
I hadn't considered using a PC or laptop but I do have a Win10 Pro laptop that I'm replacing with a Win11 laptop. The older laptop could be cleaned up to run with bare bones software and Roon. I'm assuming that I could park the Roon laptop just about anywhere there's an Ethernet connection and use my Android phone as the controller in the stereo room.
- RE: Its an eminently practical product - AbeCollins 13:33:47 11/18/23 (1)
  You can use a phone or larger screen tablet to navigate and control Roon. I use my iPad or the big screen TV in the basement. While my iPhone will work I prefer having more screen real estate.
  On a related note Audirvana used to be my favorite and was quite good. They keep improving it and I just read they have a nice remote control feature now for iOS or Android devices.
  - Audirvana (Open in New Window)
  Edits: 11/18/23 11/18/23
  - RE: Its an eminently practical product - tketcham 15:18:16 11/18/23 (0)
    Wow, that's a lot of features for a very reasonable annual cost. And now an app for Android phones. Hmmm...

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