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I use Qobuz via Roon but I have a Chromecast Audio attached to my streamer / DAC via optical so that my family (and myself sometimes) can cast to it from Spotify. My friends send me links via Spotify so it’s easier to listen to them onSpotify than look them up on Qobuz Btw. Qobuz looks AMAZING on Roon ios (iphone) It's re skinned and also has additional functions like 'recent' and the ability to generate a radio station from your recent listens. I am so impressed.

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Wow that's some requirement list!

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It has 4 extra bands of 'room' eq possible in speaker mode. I actually miss the extra bands on headphone mode. But musn't grumble.

Actually your comment made me pause for thought. I always use eq (for speakers and headphones) as I have some hearing loss and know what I am missing. I use a handful of reference tracks and tweak them to how I expect them to sound. I am always looking for: large sub bass size on kick drums, lack of low mid boom and plenty of upper mid / high frequency "tinsel" / sparkle. I have three bands of parametric dsp to play with in my DAC. For the leather pads I had one eq band set to get the treble uplift I need then and other two to reveal sub bass 'thunk' (boosting in the 40-60 hz range and using the last eq band to cut “Boom” in the 100-200 range above. My eq work on the leather ear pads got me close. but I have just redone the eq for the seude ear pads and am much happier. The kick drums on my benchmark tracks now all have that “pillow hit to the chest” heft I expect but the frequencies above now have a better, “dry” & boom free accuracy. (less flab) So thanks. (leather ear pads - now back in the box) EQ settings attached below for your interest.

These are supplied with alternate ear-cups. the shiny leather ones keep the sub bass in - the suede ones let it escape too much.

I’ve been there but ages ago a friend of mine worked there (Andy) Another chum is part of the management of the club / bar / restaurant of the same name in Kings Cross it’s nice and has a very fancy hifi system in it worth over 100K allegedly! I have been Mezzing around with some Meze Empyrean’s lately. They are very revealing.

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My speakers are on the floor angled upwards (on desktop stands) The areas they are in aren't exactly the same either. I look forwards to trying room corection one day as they will surely need different bass settings.

Many thanks again.

Ahh no I did miss that. Thanks. So in summary, for the usefulness of the SHD feature set, you tolerate Volumio's user interface shortcomings?

Is anyone here using the MiniDSP streamer function? (It's Volumio right?) If so how is that going? How is the remote (phone tablet) control of Qobuz or Tidal? (I don't have any files) Thanks

This is terrific Intel. Much appreciated! Thanks