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Harman acquires Roon

Harman's press release: https://news.harman.com/releases/harman-acquires-roon-a-popular-multi-device-multi-room-audio-technology-platform

Roon's press release: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-acquired-by-harman-international/257414

In broad strokes, Roon will continue exactly as it is.

All monthly, annual, and lifetime subscriptions remain valid and will continue without interruption.
Trials will continue and convert as they usually would.
There will be no changes to our billing processes.
This community site will continue to be the home for discussion about Roon, audio, and music.
Our customer success and support services will continue to operate as they do today.
All supported audio products will continue to work with Roon, and we’re committed to certifying new Roon Ready and Roon Tested products from all brands.
The familiar faces from our team will be right here as always.

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larsman
1,933 posts
 

That should certainly inject a large amount of money into Roon technology; be interesting to see what happens... 

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mapman
22,198 posts
 

Yes hoping that Roon gets a big financial boost to help it move forward even faster. Just as long as the current customers who made Ron a success do not get tossed aside it should be good. 

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mapman
22,198 posts
 

On the topic of Roon,  I just got the update where they break out Roon Core into separate parts including now Roon Server.  That makes sense but have not seen any of the performance enhancements Roon touts for this materialize yet.  If anything it seems slower and buggier so far. So a bit of a stumble there so far but hopefully a short lived one.   I still am a big Roon fan. 

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tomic601
12,911 posts
 

high hopes but hopefully some of the $ will go to bulking up customer support beyond the crowdsourcing mantra of “ reboot 6 times, it worked for me “ model that seems popular w some brands…

upshift
73 posts
 

Of course, one more rung up on the corporate ladder is Samsung which owns Harman.  Many storied brands under the Harman umbrella. 

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