They certainly don’t seem to be the go to player for the serious music lover/audiophile as they once were.
I’ve loyally forked out for the J River upgrade for a good few years (without really getting much for it I guess) but now I really can’t see the value in another ugrade. Qobuz is very liberating - it stops you listening to the same old same old - and I have found that Roon lets me get more out of it than Qobuz’ own app, partly because of Roons iPad app and partly because of all the reviews and understanding of compositions that Roon has. And I would often listen to things in Qobuz that I had in my own collection, that Qobuz had in higher resolution. I found as time moved on I used Qobuz more and more and my own music less and less. The only thing I find preferable in Roon is their particular integration of DSP/EQ but JRiver's compatibility with VST plug-ins is some compensation. At the moment, the only reason I use Roon is to access Qobuz but, at this time, the major proportion of my listening is to my own library. Basically defining the chain - not intended to add anything soon as Ive fairly good setup including a decent dac - not MQA native, but that part is taken care by Tidal software in the pc. With JRiver, I can define what I want to see and how. Also, I cannot get myself comfortable browsing in Roon or, even, scrolling. Roon does not recognize and meta-tag all of my classical library and, since it is working well in JRiver, there is no impetus for me to learn how to do it manually in Roon.
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