Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming Meridian Audio transfers software apps business to Roon Labs

I've been mulling over this since the acnnouncement. I can see that it has pro's for both parties, but for us consumers, the devil is in the detail that we (or at least, not all of us) are privvy to. I have a number of thoughts that I will put out there.

Do Meridian retain a share holding in Roon? It would be nice to see Roon do well and it woukd also be nice to see Meridian benefit from their past faith (and lifeline?) in the Sooloos/now Roon founder and current members should Roon be bought.

Assuming that S3/now Roon was always destined to be a paid product, whilst in Meridian ownership there always remained the possibility that ones purchase in Meridian hardware (that one must assume carried a premium for its ongoing software development costs that has now become Roon) could have earned a credit towards a subscription to S3. Now that S3 is Roon, has the possibility of this credit been lost on both past and future hardware purchases?

Following on, what does this announcement mean for the MD600, MCx00, C15 lines?

And finally, Meridian have a strong track record of supporting past purchases with future enhancements. It's what attracts many to the brand. With products such as MD600, MCx00 and C1x, they contained internal compute capability enough to run Linux builds. With no longer any obvious need for Roon to be handcuffed by less powerful platforms and, in the case of C10/C15 screen capabilities, this will benefit Roon with their ability to target modern 64 bit, fast multi core, GPU accelerated platforms, is Sooloos S2.x now the only route for C10/C15 and in case of MD600/MCx00 the choice between S2.x or reusing it as a very expensive NAS and/or audio endpoint in addition to the additional (unsubsidised?) Roon subscription and finding suitable additional modern compute needed to run Roon?

All that said, currently Sooloos is a real product that many have enjoyed over the years, Roon remains a future product (Q2?) with what appears to be no native app support on phones/tablets nor DSP that may be needed for MQA. I guess that time will tell whether Roon is a better, or indeed economically viable product for all.