One of my favorite channels | John Darko reviewing 5200 EUR for Mytek) explains a lot! So I’ll rather keep dreamin’. And BTW, there are much better and nicer endpoints/streamers supporting Roon, like my dream Naim Uniti Atom or Mytek’s Brooklyn Bridge & AMP, but the price tag 3000 EUR (resp. The endpoints (the devices that actually play the music stream) that are based on Raspberry PIs with attached sound cards from HiFiBerry are fully supported by Roon, so even though I am describing here how to integrate the multiroom audio with LMS and I am currently using it this way, any future transition to Roon should not be that dramatic in terms of the HW changes. Every investment I made so far into the multiroom audio HW can be reused with Roon later.It supports multiple platforms and transport protocols. It logically splits the roles between control, core and output.It emphasizes the sound quality and optimizes the data stream for each of the endpoint, depending on his capabilities.Roon seems to go beyond everything I have seen so far, it reinvents the tangible factor that has vanished after the decline of vinyl record covers and CD booklets.But there is a strong reason why am writing here about it: One of my favorite channels | John Darko talking about Roon streaming platformįor me Roon represents multi-room audio platform of the future, how distant this future will be is yet unknown and depends on things I will list later below. If this was the brain-closing sentence for you, please watch few videos and check the potential of the system to see what all is behind. It is a service that costs you $119/year, or $499/lifetime. Before you ask, even if you build your own core server and install the ROCK build, Roon is not free. The “core” can be purchased as an out of box device called “ Nucleus“, or it can be hosted on a device based on Intel NUC line as “ ROCK“, which is a do-it-yourself build of Roon OS, a custom Linux based operating system for running Roon Server. It can also store the actual digital audio files or you can store these on your NAS. There is a dedicated server called “core” that manages your music collection from multiple sources, building an interconnected digital library. Just briefly, is has pretty similar architecture to the LMS. I fully recommend reading more details about the system to build up your own opinion. It looks very robust, with the focus on ultimate audio quality providing rich metadata to enrich the audiophile’s experience. This multiroom audio platform looks very promising and I have discovered its existence pretty late.
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