I am pleased that I can get the 'Amarra sound' with iRC on at least one of my streaming services, and because I already owned sQ+ and had an iRC license, it cost me nothing to find that out. clicks, pops, buzzing, music somewhere in the background of all the noise. sQ+ with iRC does NOT play AT ALL with Roon. sQ+ with iRC plays well with Naxos's lossless streaming service ClassicsOnline HD -LL '- Amarra sQ+ v.2.2 has been released it integrates nicely with iRC room correction if you already have a license (if not, it will be another $450 to obtain that, plus ~$170 to buy a compatible microphone to measure your room and create filters for iRC) I get the latter by using Dirac, and honestly, the room correction is a much bigger improvement to my system's sound than the Amarra sound itself. I may experiment with running the TIDAL desktop app through Amarra sQ+ just to see how that sounds/works, but honestly, the Roon user experience with TIDAL is so vastly superior to TIDAL's own application (especially in the area of liner notes!), and the SQ of TIDAL is never really outstanding enough for critical listening, that I may put on hold my desire to hear TIDAL with Amarra and iRC room correction. Roon connects beautifully with Dirac, so I'm going to stick to that for now. Pops, clicks, buzzing they just don't integrate. 'I have tried running Roon through sQ+ 2.2 with iRC and, unfortunately, it does not work at all. 'I will report back with more, but wanted to share this with any Amarra with iRC fans who like me have been waiting for a way to play streaming sources with iRC.' However, it is not playing gaplessly with ClassicsOnline (not a surprise, as sQ+ 2.1 did not, either). Too early to say much about SQ other than nothing obviously out of character for the signature Amarra sound, and no artifacts like clicks or pops.

'I am just beginning to listen to various streaming sources so far only Naxos's ClassicsOnline HD -LL, later I will try TIDAL through Roon. I posted the following in my own Amarra sQ thread, but I agree with Richard that the advent of sQ with iRC is significant enough to warrant its own thread, so I'm going to copy these posts and continue in this thread going forward:

Amarra symphony irc