I run my Roon Core on my MacBook Pro. One of my end points is my Oppo 205. I absolutely love the integration and sound quality. Simply transformative to my listening experience. Highly recommended.How does Room interact with the oppo 205?
I run my Roon Core on my MacBook Pro. One of my end points is my Oppo 205. I absolutely love the integration and sound quality. Simply transformative to my listening experience. Highly recommended.How does Room interact with the oppo 205?
I don't get why it's so expensive...
Roon pay no license fees as this is personal "bought" music
Hardware requirements are pushed on to the end user
Network bandwidth is also pushed on to the end user
Obviously they make the software and utilise a server for remote access... But is that really $20 a month...
I have had Roon for 19 months now, the core is my Synology NAS using iPad as a controller and outputting via a Linn Majik DS. Very simple to use and informative.
£380ish, but yeah still pricey for me£500
Hi
Firstly i apologise for my lack of knowledge on this subject but I currently have a Naim Nova I am using Tidal Hi fi and currently the few cds I have ripped are on an 256g sd card in the back of the Nova. Is it worth using Roon just so I can get the high quality tracks off Tidal.
Mike
£500 big rip off, I am happy with just using the Free Cambridge Connect app to access my music collection, works easily no problems
'Possible' is not the same as 'reliably present from the outset with no faffing about.' You're paying for someone to have done the legwork for you and to have done it to an exceptional standard.
There's an interesting addendum to this in that as someone exclusively self employed, I know exactly what my time is worth to me. I recently had to test six pieces of music playback software for a magazine. The time faffing about with plugins was equivalent to two years of Roon subs. Make of that what you will.
Fundamentally the lifetime subscription is the flaw in this business model I would think. As a business it really limits income in years to come.
As with all software that is connected with the internet it is essential for security updates at the very minimum and I am not sure where this would come from if in years to come the money disappears due to the lifetime subs.
I'd say the bigger risk is customers investing in expensive Roon ready hardware, for the smoothest Roon experience etc, and the company disappearing down the road.
If anything I think this more solidifies their long term future even more
In one sense, definitely.
My broader point was that if an accident befell them and they disappeared, customers would be left with Roon ready hardware / server, still usable, but perhaps not as intended when originally bought.
But it also leaves someone else to come in and use the tech themselves. Roon are at a point where they wouldn’t disappear. Someone would take over the business and pick up where they left off. Roon is well known through all HiFi circles now and aside from streaming represents the biggest leap in tech for years.