What is Roon HQPlayer?

HQPlayer is an advanced, up-sampling media player. It offers some of the best software-based up-sampling and sigma-delta processing available on the market today, as well as convolution, channel mapping, and networked audio output solutions. Roon can be configured to turn a copy of HQPlayer into a Zone.

How do I set up HQPlayer?

Setting Up Roon And HQPlayer

In Roon, go to Settings/Setup/HQPlayer and click “Add HQPlayer”.
Choose HQPlayer from the *Add Network Device* dropdown.
Enter the network address where HQPlayer is running.

Is Roon worth the money?

From my viewpoint Roon is a great value with a combination of features that is not easily available anywhere else. 1. Seamlessly integrates music files I own on a hard drive with TIDAL and Qobuz, including MQA through TIDAL….

Does Roon affect sound quality?

Overview. Roon is built from the ground-up to produce extremely high-quality output, however Roon works differently from other software, so you may not be able to drop it into an existing setup and get the same results immediately.

Is Roon better than Tidal?

Modern songs may be EQed brighter to sound better in loud environments like in a car, but Roon makes them sound even brighter. In comparison Tidal sounded smoother, mellower but slightly less detailed.

What does a microRendu do?

The microRendu is an audiophile microcomputer music player with Ethernet input and USB Audio output. The microRendu utilizes a proprietary printed circuit board with only the essential components.

Can you use HQPlayer with Roon 1.3?

Roon’s upsampling is their own, or someone else’s, but at least not mine. But Roon 1.3 should still work as before with HQPlayer too. So the choice is up to you. Roon’s upsampling is their own, or someone else’s, but at least not mine. But Roon 1.3 should still work as before with HQPlayer too.

How does HQ player work with Roon and NAA?

Hqplayer is doing all of the processing. All the Roon settings for sound are bypassed. The NAA protocol actually works more like Airplay than anything. But it does things in the best way possible for sound. All of the processing is done on the server end to keep things as simple and pure as possible on the streamer end.

What’s the difference between HQP alone and Roon?

I can’t hear a difference between HQP alone and HQP with Roon in front of it (which may be because all Roon is doing is pulling up the file and serving it to HQP). I suppose Roon could be picking up some extra noise somewhere and handing that along to HQP, but if so, I don’t hear it. i’ve done some brief comparisons. Roon sounds very good.

Which is better HQPlayer or Roon or Amarra 3?

Have been extensively testing HQPlayer vs. Amarra 3 vs. Audirvana now for months. First impression for whatever reason I don’t get, Roon+HQPlayer sounds better than HQPlayer on its own. It might be psychoacoustics tricking me though as I am now looking at a modern fronted in Roon as opposed to HQPlayer. However, it rocks!

What is Roon HQPlayer? HQPlayer is an advanced, up-sampling media player. It offers some of the best software-based up-sampling and sigma-delta processing available on the market today, as well as convolution, channel mapping, and networked audio output solutions. Roon can be configured to turn a copy of HQPlayer into a Zone. How do I set…