In Reply to: Anyone using Jplay? Review said it was better sounding than Roon posted by Dawnrazor on June 27, 2024 at 12:15:07:
Roon can display the Signal Path and assigns a color dot to indicate the quality. The reviewer who compared Roon to JPlay botched the comparison as he did not have Roon configured for bit-perfect output.The comment by philr in the paragraph below is all telling.
In my Roon screen shot examples below I show a signal path that is not bit-perfect and one that is bit-perfectHere, the music is going thru the Mac OS Mixer which is not bit-perfect. (BTW, Windows mixer is similarly not bit-perfect).
In this example the music bypasses the Mac OS Mixer so the music data is bit-perfect end to end.
Bottom Line: The reviewer didn't know what he was doing and didn't have Roon set up for bit-perfect playback placing Roon
at a serious disadvantage in his botched comparison against JPlay.
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- Reviewer setup was botched..... the comparison is INVALID - AbeCollins 10:23:48 07/05/24 (0)