# Occasionally booming bass with Roon

**URL:** <https://arcam.discourse.group/t/occasionally-booming-bass-with-roon/1544>\
**Category:** Issues\
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/occasionally-booming-bass-with-roon/1544 "2025-02-09T11:51:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![WelshMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@WelshMike](https://arcam.discourse.group/u/WelshMike)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/occasionally-booming-bass-with-roon/1544/1 "2025-02-09T11:51:05Z")

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Not sure if anyone else is a Roon user and has heard of this issue. I have an SA30 with a Sub setup through a pre amp out and DiRAC set up and working nicely.

As a precursor, I haven’t done the latest firmware update as I was concerned about other potential issues, though I might do it soon, and this started just before the new firmware was released.

Recently I got the occasional listening session with Roon that was very bass heavy, almost like DiRAC had messed up and I would then grab the remote and turn DiRAC off. It’s not just bass that is wrong, the music sounded wrong.

If I turned DiRAC off it was fine for the session and then on the next listening session I would turn DiRAC back on and all was fine again. It got annoying enough that I was using HQPlayer to do most loud my listening on the SA30 feeding into a Pi and then out to my DAC and fed back into my SA30 via the STB RCA inputs.

Even with DiRAC enabled this sounded great so I have used that a lot and then thought why not enable the Roon Bridge service on the raspberry Pi (Ropieee) and try that as well, which I did and was also perfect so far, but like HQPlayer I lose volume control.

Also to add I have had no issues with UPNP from LMS or BubbleUPNP either so it only seems to occur with Roon Ready.

Any thoughts?

Network reset or something else?

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**Author:** ![WelshMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@WelshMike](https://arcam.discourse.group/u/WelshMike)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://arcam.discourse.group/t/occasionally-booming-bass-with-roon/1544/2 "2025-02-10T10:54:13Z")

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Ok as a follow up on this I ended up doing a net reset followed by a factory reset and then the latest firmware update.

That of course wiped out the DiRAC curves so I put them back in during the early hours of this morning.

Listened to some music last night and this morning and will see how it goes from here. I always have the external streamer and DAC if it continues to occur, but for now I will be hopeful