The time has come and I request advice...

ghdprentice

6,193 posts

03-12-2024 at 01:52am 

... I have experienced generations of operating systems, hardware, and dozens and dozens of software suites and hundreds of single purpose software products. Software like Roon has a very limited life as streaming becomes. Main stream and major vendors produce their own better and better products and the revenues dry up for Roon and they get purchased and disappear into the history of software. There is a question of how long it will take… but the time will not be measured in decades but likely a few years.

Sure. Could be. Impossible to know what’ll happen on the post-Samsung side of the timeline for Roon. That said, Aurender has plenty of competition too, has to keep abreast of hardware and software trends, and’s only 4 years older than Roon. 
Ah well, not an issue for me as I don’t use, or profit from, either product.

Any experience out there with Silent Angel? They make an audiophile network switch, streamer and power supply.

The Pontus II 12th isn't (and won't be for some time) the limiting factor in your set up......it will be a very good pairing with an updated streamer

I’m running a lightly used HiFi rose 250a into a Venus 2 12th.  I’ve played fairly extensively with Aurenders, & while conductor is good, I find HiFi rose app to be equal or better.  IMO these 2 for less than $5k to me is big value & I want for nothing in user experience or digital sound quality.

@ghdprentice 

There is a question of how long it will take… but the time will not be measured in decades but likely a few years.

Any thoughts on what that might look like?  Would Roon be likely to migrate users to a new platform in order to maintain the revenue stream, sell their metadata to a competitor, or simply cut bait, return to the dock, and sip margaritas?  Don’t you think they might have a strategic plan?

I am an early lifetime subscriber so have already gotten my value from the platform, but would like to see it continue.  I recently considered going with an Innuos Zenith Mk3 as a server into their Pulsar streamer but their not being a Roon partner caused me to pause, and I hedged my bet by going with a more generic server option. I may still try the Pulsar streamer, which apparently works fine with Roon but would allow me to also try the Sense app.