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“How better to check out a component’s reproduction of the sound of a solo instrument than to play some solo piano music? I switched to Tidal and played Warren Mailley-Smith’s performance of Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op.65 No.6, from his album Rhapsody in Blue (16/44.1 FLAC, Sleeveless). The N100H’s ability to reproduce realistic dynamic contrasts made this recording sound better than anything else I’ve heard via Tidal. Splendid.”

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” My biggest quibble with Roon is that it lacks a Folder view, which would allow me to select individual files of the same name but different encoding. On the other hand, Roon automatically identifies and displays new albums I load onto my NAS. Roon isn’t perfect — no app in my experience is — but it found noticeably more album covers than Conductor. I preferred Conductor to the Roon remote for the iPad; it seemed easier to find albums when they were displayed by name. But the Roon remote running on my laptop computer seemed to equal Conductor. However, the laptop’s battery life was far shorter than the iPad’s, so for overall ease of use, Conductor was the winner. It also offered several more ways to sort albums. Nonetheless, Roon remains unparalleled in the amount of information it provides about the music in my collection.”

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” Roon completely integrates music streamed from Tidal with music in your local collection. In Roon, music from Tidal appears right beside music in your local collection; there’s no need to switch between the local library and Tidal. The Search feature works on both your local collection and Tidal — type in what you’re looking for and Roon displays items from your local collection along with items from Tidal, the latter marked with a small Tidal logo in the upper left-hand corner of the album cover.”