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[PAR (Pete)]

There have been several threads here over time regarding the sound of Roon v, Mosaic. You may be interested in reading one of the more recent:

Does Roon have better or worse sound quality than dCS Mosaic

My audio gear is simple, a hifiman hekse pluged into the dCS bartok streaming music from a QNAP hs543dx (the fanless NAS). Previsouly I used Mosaic control the music play and found it easy to use. Several days ago, I installed the ROON sever on the NAS and applied for a 14 days trial. Although the ROON is very powerful in terms of analyzing and managing your local music file, I do think it’s worse in terms of sound quality than Mosaic streaming through UPNP. It seems quite intersting to me wh…

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I use for “critical” listening the Mosaic app. My question- will there be an update for this?
Even Innuos will bring out a fantastic looking GUI for their server line.

As far as I am aware dCS have never intended Mosaic to be an all singing, all dancing player. It is supposed to be a basic player that will suit the majority of users. The kind of curation that Roon provides would not be economically feasible with a free to user player like Mosaic. Of course the strategy at dCS may change but I see no imminent move to Mosaic being much more than it currently is. After all we are still awaiting the release of v.1.1.2 which is only intended to fix some of the outstanding issues and not to add anything new.

So, for now, if you want a Roon type GUI then the place to find it is …Roon