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

I love Roon. Changed how I listen to music. Changed how my guests listen to music. I've got playlists that my house guests have created, discovering music I'd never heard of. I have the Roon UI on a $50 Amazon tablet! I give the tablet to guests and they queue up great music. We've had music battles, with a room full of people picking different music and expanding everyone's palette, grudgingly admitting that "that wasn't so bad" with a smile on their face. And I can sync the bluesounds in the garden with the DSP5ks in the living room, through the patio doors, all controlled, and perfectly synchronized, by Roon. Sure, I pay $30 month for TIDAL, but the joy of discovering more wonderful music that I actually like is easily worth that. I was playing some Vangelis, and my brother grabbed the tablet and put on "Teardrop" from Massive Attack. How had I forgotten about that??? Add to playlist.

I've done the whole UPnP thing, way back. If you have free time and no money, then sure, have fun with UPnP and iPeng, and streamripper, and, wait, what are you doing with Meridian gear???

If you have some technical chops, then get Roon and install it on a NUC, or if you have slightly less chops, a Mac Mini.

If you have no technical chops and like to just plug things into other things, get a Roon Nucleus.

And a $300 iPad for a remote (you may also use it for other things apparently). Or a $50 Amazon tablet. Works on your phone too, unless its rotary.

I've easily spent $5,000 on Meridian gear (er, last week). $500 for Roon is a no brainer. If you can't get your head around paying for software, then buy a Nucleus. If you have any Meridian processor (561, 861) or speaker, then you already enjoy paying for software - all of these systems, at their heart, are DSPs - running software!