Originally Posted by Ludwig
I haven't heard any difference, using quite a healthy variety of endpoints.
I can hear no difference in my NC home in Direct and Trifield modes. All Meridian and Roon hardware and software are connected to the same network switch played thru ID40 card in 861.v4 to non-SpeakerLink DSPs. 2 channel thru DSP8000s.

Roon storage on Iomega 2 Bay NAS with 2 2TB drives and and running Roon on a refurb HP Envy 23" all in one (i3 processor).

Sooloos store/core on HD600 with 2 3TB drives.

This is based on long terming listening to both in Direct and Trifield modes. They both sound so good (and identical) to me, it is counterproductive to search for imagined (or real) irritants.

Others have noted the obvious; Roon is by far the better overall interface. I believe it will improve/add/change/subtract fairly rapidly, especially compared to M's Sooloos core software (not that there's anything wrong with that.

James
NC1: 861v8, ID41, 218, 251(to outdoors), DSP8000SEUG, 7200SEC, DSP520 rears, Apple TV, DirecTV, Oppo BD103, QNAP251, Roon
NC2-M7005, Triad Silver Speakers,Acurus Amps

FL1: 861v4, ID40, 218, MS200, DSP8000SEs, DSP7200SEC, DSP5000s, DirecTv, AppleTv, OppoBD103, QNAP469, Roon
FL2: Marantz 7005, 251, M60s,60C,33s, Oppo BDP-93,MS200, Roon