Roon Aquisition: Will This Help Or Hamper?

We’ll see what happens at annual budget time when Roon audio engineering leadership meets corporate finance.  Roon is an engineering-driven company. If Harmon is just buying technology, we’ll see some personnel changes at Roon pretty fast. If Harmon keeps a lighter touch and lets Roon continue it’s underdog role, we Roon users could see some pretty cool stuff. We’ll see how anxious non-Harmon companies are now to embrace Roon Readiness…

They seem to think it will be helpful (roon) I have never been a fan of the Roon Environment and found it very inadequate in comparison to other platforms such as Innuos, Sotm, Silent Angle, Tiako. alibet the software is easy to use as is the Sense  and Mind2 applications. 

We will see.  I got the lifetime license earlier this year and its been worth every penny so far. 

2 more years and I have broken even with my lifetime membership. If someone got one recently no-one knows what will happen, but there are plenty of competitors/alternatives, so I would guess at worst they could say you just prepaid for the next 6 or 7 years, then we will remove your lifetime membership.

It certainly won't be as bad as buying a Betamax or HD DVD player. :) 

I was about to pull the trigger on a lifetime subscription.  Since the announcement of the merger, I've noticed that Roon is no longer functioning on my Sonos products.  It does still work on my main system and I love its functionality and the information is provides.  Still, the sudden Sonos glitch makes me think I'll just go with the one year subscription for now and wait and see.