No need to when addressing this assertion:
Iām tempted to what ever you. Tempted.
We merely have differing views.
Yours are $40 cheaper I guess.
A better way to think of it is two LPs richer. Or, more accurately, do not spend money unnecessarily.
Or spend $40 if this makes you happier.
There is no single correct answer; use what works best for you, recognizing others may come to a different conclusion.
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Ewe, that is the standard dancingsea answer.
āThere is no single right answer. There is a magical unicorn inside each and every one of us.ā
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I support the fact that authors of software need be paid for their service just like musicians. But if a voluntary donation is asked paying becomes a voluntary and not mandatory issue, itās up to the provider of the software to make those differences. You can not blame people for not paying voluntary donations.
Different pair of shoes is black copying software that you use, without paying mandatory fees. That is called theft, but I donāt think that is issue of the discussion.
With QNAP, get another cheap 8TB SATA drive, attach it by USB and use Backup Station to do 5am backups every Sunday morning. WD RED drives internally.
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I additionally suggest backing up your music collection to a portable drive and storing this at your office or other off-site location. This way you still have your carefully tagged music files if you experience a burglary, fire, etc.
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If itās not offsite, itās not a backup 
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I would recommend a cloud based backup service like Backblaze, saves you having to remember to transport physical media which can often result in longer gaps between whatās offsite and whatās onsite.
Personally, I back everything up to TimeMachine (onsite), have my music files on an iCloud Drive (offsite) AND have Backblaze back everything up (offsite). At this point, if I lose them Iāll have to accept it was not meant to be. 
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Now that Iāve had experience with a product that has a Moat, etc one of the aspects PSās server hopefully will address is the discrepancy between the sound of WAV, AIF, Flac, etc.
My Mac Pro 2013 running an older Jriver has more than enough processing power and ram (64g) to handle decoding flac to uncompressed, (try 4K files!) so there must be another reason the Sonics are not identical. Possibly itās software based.
And If the discrepancy canāt be engineered out there could always be a smart cache, like my Davinci Resolve system has for video.
Essentially it would pre read the playlist and unpack that temporarily to WAV. (And perhaps allow tagging to uncompress tracks).
7 posts were split to a new topic: Roon 7.1 announced
Why was the announcement of Roon 1.7 merged into this topic? I use Roon with DSD/Bridge and I was under the impression that Roon isnāt planned to be part of the new music server. Or at least a super long shot.
Just curious 
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Because in the thread thereās been a good deal of discussion between Roon and PSA developing their new UI. @Elk Iām new posting, if inappropriate plz advise.
Good point @michaelhifi
I think the thread effectively got buried here.
Gotcha but with Roon being available on DSD and DSD Jr. only it seems like one shouldnāt have to dig through this topic to get info on it.
The latest Roon commentary is here because cyberguy1 posted the announcement of Roon 1.7 in this thread.
I can split it off into its own thread if this is the consensus but, as already noted, there has been a good deal of Roon discussion in this thread - among a number of other things.
I think it is completely inappropriate to discuss Roon in a thread that is about a product that intends to replace Roon. This isnāt deep thought. Roon is worthy of itās own thread.
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What is appropriate is what members are interested in posting and discussing. We have discussed Roon, ripping software, backup practices, etc. all in this thread in the recent past.
But we have one vote to move Roon 1.7 to its own thread. Others? I donāt care as long as the discussion is in one place.