No idea. Nothing in the press release but then press releases are not intended to contain facts.
All for naught then. Management teams, boards, etc, donāt approve deals without business cases. And if thereās no mention of the price, itās a little hard to speculate what Harmanās intention is.
Implications? Easy. Money. Just like Naim being bought.
Martin
Its only ever money lol.
you wonder if theyāre thinking about making a move into car / portable audio solutions. an oem like Ford, Toyota, etc. paying a license fee for Roon in a car could be big
I can see various possibilities, including your scenarios. It will be interesting to see what happens - but that is only as an observer. Committed Roon users will either like the future development, or curse it. I hope for the sake of those with lifetime subscriptions it is the former.
You wish! Too late in the game with Carplay, Airplay for mass consumption, and the technology & sound quality get better and better by huge Apple R&D fund.
Interesting how so much is given away unintentionally. On the one hand Harman present that theyāre giving Roon a helping hand to go large whilst remaining independent of them.
On the other you have Kirkland and Ellis who advised on the acquisition and thereās none of that talk there. There the talk is rather different.
What to believe eh. The PR or the legal and financial beagles.
Displacing Apple / CarPlay would be difficult.
At least not from the Roon staff themselves, they deleted my queries about the lack of Roon support of the Linn streamers on the official Roon community forum, I do not see any reason why unless they want to hide something.
Iāve had the lifetime deal long enough that Iāve pretty much broken even vs. monthly and yearly plans, so Im not overly concerned. Back when I paid, ālifetimeā was less than it is now.
I donāt think itās about displacing them - itās about Roon working inside them
Roon on mobile . . . is the use case to use it to merely replace the UI of an existing streaming app, or to integrate a home serverās contents via Roon Arc along with the contents of a streaming platform?
As much as I like Roon at home, I donāt use it when mobile. I am happy to just use the Qobuz app. Iām far less picky what I listen to when mobile and donāt care about access to my home serverās library when Iām mobile. Others probably have different use cases for Roon, but in any event Iām one person who doesnāt use it in the car or elsewhere outside of my home.
If I didnāt already have a Qobuz subscription, itād be different for me. But despite having 2tb of music on a home server, I find Qobuz worthwhile.
I think itās potentially both.
When I got the M1 Mac Mini with less RAM, Roon wasnāt viable as it was so memory hungry, didnāt use it for about 5 months so didnāt renew. I could have run it on an older Mac Mini but that was wasting electricity unless I used it often. I never did.
A few days ago I got a Black Friday 3 month subscription offer which was good, forgot to click on the link in time so missed it. Probably saved some money in the long run as Iād probably have left the subscription run after 3 months even if I hadnāt used it much.
The always internet connected thing they introduced also turned me off.
As for having a NAS/home based servers I was looking at a few options for an unused Raspberry Pi some weeks ago and of a few Moode happened to work best on initial attempts so itās been running in the bedroom since then, my plan being to test the other solutions when I had more time. The fact is Moode has been stable since installation but Iāve barely used it, and certainly not for several weeks.
Bad day in the office?!
Any day in the office not trolling hi-fi message boards, looking for excellent used audio gear, sitting on your sofa listening to music - is a bad day in the office.
Whatās an office? Iāve been hybrid working for three years and have stepped into my previous base maybe half a dozen times for the odd half day since then.
I presume @Naim_The_Dragon said something along the lines of me or @jmtennapel having a bad day at the office?If only theyād not been on ignore for so long because of similar snipes eh.
As much as I like Roon at home, I donāt use it when mobile. I am happy to just use the Qobuz app. Iām far less picky what I listen to when mobile and donāt care about access to my home serverās library when Iām mobile. Others probably have different use cases for Roon, but in any event Iām one person who doesnāt use it in the car or elsewhere outside of my home.
Another good point.
The launch of Arc has likely demonstrated firstly that, whilst Roonās initial offer gained great traction because it was first to market, most of what theyāve done since actually hasnāt been very good. Secondly, they have a pattern of adding or creating stuff for which there isnāt actually that much demand. None of this adds up to a compelling future no matter who is in charge. Add in the squeeze from the app functionality of other manufacturers not owned by Samsung and I remain inclined to go with their advisers take rather than the PR.
Whatās an office? Iāve been hybrid working for three years and have stepped into my previous base maybe half a dozen times for the odd half day since then.
youāre a lucky man then
No heās always like,thatš
Going OT but it has pros and cons like anything.