I have always had the Roon core on my Mac desktops. First one was a used 2009 model and the current one is a 2017 that I bought used a couple of years ago. As soon as I got it, I noticed that it ran much slower than I thought a 2017 model should run. I’ve been on tech support with a couple of Apple senior advisors and things improved a bit, but not much. Tonight I reinstalled MacOS Monterey and it seems to be running a lot faster. The music tonight via Roon is so good….. either I’m just lucky with my music selection or less strain on the processor has resulted in a significant improvement. There is increased clarity, more separation around instruments and singers, excellent tonality. I usually get dropouts every night, but 0 tonight. My internet is broadcast over a tower and the speed has been between 13 and 23 Mbps. I could switch to some really crappy recordings, but I’m so enjoying the sound right now because I’m finding new (old) albums on Roon and I don’t want to interrupt their search algorithm. My assumption was that if the processor was struggling, I’d get dropouts, but it wouldn’t affect the quality of the sound.
Opinions welcome.