Originally Posted by gIzzE
I wonder if the last few years was spent on Roon and MQA rather than product direction?

And now it has been farmed out they are left trying to play catch up?
MQA I am sure took up a lot of time and they lost valuable personnel when they split,

Roon seems to have been more of a divorce than a split and speculation was that Meridian wanted the new Sooloos (Roon) to run on existing Sooloos hardware, whilst very laudable it seems it forced too many compromises on the sw development hence the parting of the ways, subsequent Roon development has clearly shown that where the team wanted to be would not have been possible on legacy Sooloos HW, at this time John Buchanan promised exciting times ahead for Sooloos The reality seems to be the release of Touch:PC which is a C15 interface for the PC with certain functional restrictions for example you can't add an album from a USB memory stick? And the release of Sooloos core for the QNAP which is downloadable free of charge, sorry if I have missed anything else of relevance.

As Meridian and MQA were one company I think many HH are disappointed that with the exception of the 808v6, 818v3 and UltraDac all premium products, it has taken until March this year for the 218 to be released and this is definitely a custom install focussed product although I am sure HH's will buy it to, where were the M80, MS200, MS600 updates for MQA, a real chance to be ahead of the curve missed.

Russ