


Team that with the fact that Roon, could divert its audio stream directly to HQPlayer and it was game over. After installing, tuning and finagling with the HQPlayer software I found it to be the best sounding audio engine I had yet to experience. I do recall that the sonics for PM would change from version to version and I recall reverting several times to previous versions because I was unhappy with changes I perceived in the sonics of subsequent versions.Įnter HQPlayer. I haven’t tried the latest version of PM so I have no clue how it sounds at this point in time. I didn’t buy into Roon at first because for all it’s slick features and convenience, it’s core audio engine simply couldn’t compete with PureMusic (which I much preferred over Amarra and Audirvana). The shear flexibility and fact that I no longer had to bother with maintaining an iTunes library that PureMusic “wrapped” was, well, music to my ears. So I have been a Roon user since about 2017 having purchased the lifetime license which was then $500.00, glad I did.
