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Wondering if anyone has tried to do a sound comparison with Sooloos and Roon Nucleus to their Meridian audio equipment via ID40/41 card?
Even with an Intel NUC PC which is basically the same in a different cabinet only crazy

If there is any audible sound difference when playing via Tidal and compared to Sooloos before?

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No difference at all when using a NUC and ROCK.


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Using an 861/ID40 zero difference with PCM files / streams ... however, Roon can decode (first unfold) MQA to x2 sample-rate and Sooloos can not so Roon wins there (if you don't have a downstream MQA decoder).


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