Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion HiFi & HT Chat Is Roon Doomed Like Sooloos?

The problem for all endeavour is the market and those in it. There seem to be too many competitors in software (entry costs are low) to sustain higher prices unless you get through to becoming the de facto standard or at least dominant. Microsoft did this entirely with software - highly unusual. Apple deployed hardware as well. Perhaps Roon will get there with a bit of both. Sooloos might have got there with a really big and fleet of foot hardware producer (what Sonos has achieved from a small start is really impressive).

But, please don’t ask me to pay more for anything than I judge gives me what I want. That is old style communist planning and a large scale demonstration has shown it doesn’t lead to widely shared wealth nor great innovation. Mind you, market economics the way the Chinese do it bears inspection.