Agreed... Roon [which was Sooloos 3 until about 2 months ago IMHO] is the product of Thousands of manhours of work

And with the Roon guys having only left Meridian about 6 weeks ago, it will be borderline impossible for Meridian to replicate this level of Design and Implementation in anything less than 12-18 months IMHO

And even that would assume that they have the DESIRE to undertake such a task... the parting of the ways between Meridian and Roon was an amicable one and I get the impression that Meridian want to continue to work in tandem with Roon... rather than having to invest a minimum of hundreds of thousands in order to COMPETE with Roon

The Meridian guys know where their strengths lie... i.e. [Sound Quality and Endpoints that achieve that]... never mind bringing paradigm shifting new formats to the music industry in MQA

And equally they know that the Roon guys strengths lie in delivering Software that appeals to the Music Enthusiasts out there... who want to listen to their music, but LEARN about it as they listen as well [if the mood strikes]

IMHO, those expecting a Roon type of product... or Track level metadata... from Meridian in the short or even medium term, will be left very disappointed

Software Design was not a core strength of Meridian before their 2008 takeover of Sooloos... and it's very unlikely to suddenly become a core strength now that Elvis [in the form of Roon] has left the building

As Nick says, these two companies are very strong in their respective areas... and are in a position to provide all of us HH's with what IMHO will be the best of both worlds

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