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Very reassuring to see the flashing Green Envelope again.

Better than "being between the devil and the deep blue sea". JMO

Hector

Assuming your main listening room is thru your 861v8 / ID41, then why would Roon [on your gaming PC] sound different than your "pimped" MC200???

I'm waiting for the iOS app before making a final judgement. I'm not sure I really need such a rich metadata experience. It would have been fine if included in something like Sooloos 3 at no cost (those in the know say that was never going to happen, but I never saw anything suggesting that prior to the Roon spinoff) but I'm not 100% sure I need it enough to pay for it. The lifetime payment is relatively small I guess when averaged out, so I may go for it and simply keep a dual option. The other minor inconvenience is running both a NAS and another computer just to run Roon on in my situation. My standard computer won't run it, so I have to use my laptop, though that isn't perfect either. Having spent a lot on an MD600, I don't really want to spend a fair bit on another computer just for the sake of running Roon.

I tried Roon but the interface is not the way I want to search for music or set up my queues. As I have no PC to run the Sooloos Configuration program I have no means of turning off my Sooloos endpoints and giving that to Roon. I will keep an open mind as I wait to see if MQA turns out to be a viable option. Then I will make a final decision.

If I run Roon now, after the latest update, with the Sooloos MC200 core running. The zones disappear from Sooloos and are found in Roon including the MC200.

This then plays perfectly.

After I shut down Roon, all the zones are back on my Core control app and play perfectly.

It looks like only one system can have the zones at a time and Roon overrides Sooloos.

I have not had to reboot any Sooloos components as yet.

My music for each system is on different drives. TwinStore for Sooloos and an Icey box USB 3 to laptop for Roon.

Hope this helps. Chris

Not pedantic, just not what I was asking.

The clue is in the title and forum context it was posted in. It's about moving FROM Sooloos, not to Roon. I don't care that people have moved to Roon, just curious who chose Roon over Sooloos.

I'm sticking with Soolos and Tidal for now.
I did trial Roon and it looked good but I never got it to work with my MC200.

When the whole story around MQA and future Meridian products is more clear we'll see but for now everything is just too unclear to take any steps forward for me.

Have already moved to Roon and ditched the MC200.

I already had a suitable PC to hand to host my server and it means that I get improved functionality and have recoved the value of my MC200, which was promptly used to pay for the replacement LPS in my 861v4, annual subscription to Roon and some more music. It's the first system upgrade I've done in a while which was completely cost neutral.

Probably with similar reason that I found replacing the wall-wart SMPS of the MC200 with a medical-grade high-quality SMPS improved/affected the resulting SQ out of the ID41/861v8 slightly. Of course this can't be true if bits are bits but could perhaps be explained by lower EMI/RFI, better grounding of the PSU etc.

It's sort of those poor audioreview fellows that put in AQ Vodka/Diamond in their audioserver/endpoint chain and really want it to be no difference in SQ but have to confess that it actually affected the end SQ result.

A careful Audiostream AQ Vodka/Diamond review

Please stop the world, it's time to get off....

One thing about Roon that bothers me is, will it still be going in 3 or 4 years time? Meridian, Linn, Naim etc all have hardware to backup and support software but Roon is just a software company and an expensive one at that.

If they can't keep enough subscribers then they are likely to fold.

Fortunate to have both.

Sticking with Sooloos via the MD600, but will give Roon a try with a HP Touch Screen PC & QNAP which I'm currently setting up.

I will decide on the future when we know for certain the direction Meridian takes.

Del (TD4)