It's very good though, and I enjoyed it when I had the trial. I know it's not massive money, and in audiophile terms its actually a miniscule amount, but it's the principle for me that the charge is greater than unlimited libraries of HD music provided by your chosen supplier, backed up with their own software interface, vast servers to power and store the music on, allowing buffer free playback and royalties paid to the artists. You can use Roon with a Raspberry Pi with a cheap Pi DAC playing into a paid of PC type speakers if you want, or any of the various Roon ready devices you can buy, some quite cheaply, or you can use some more expensive kit like Chord DACs as I do, playing into Naim amplifiers, it's all relative, you choose your price point to fit your ear and wallet, Roon gives you the felxibility to be where you want to be. To get started all you need is a PC or Mac - any will do, with a few hundred GB of storage and some music and an output of your choice, headphones, PC speakers etc. ![]() ![]() It's not aimed at fools, they are not selling de-carbonised cable or gold plated fuses, they are selling a multi-room, multi-controller, multi-output music playing matrix which also offers a deep dive into the history of the music, artists and composers. I just don't understand the pricing, I know audiophiles can be fools with their money and that's who it's aimed at, but charging more than the actual music sub just doesn't compute.$829.99 for lifetime. ![]() Even at the current price it's still great value.Just had a look and there doesn't appear to be a lifetime sub offered, but if it was $500 in 2016 I'd hate to think what they would want now. I have a setup that will play native DSD, without conversion to PCM, but I cannot tell the difference between that and DSD to PCM conversion. ![]() I generally listen to DSD converted by my player (JRiver) to PCM, which works with any DAC I know of. If you buy the lifetime subscription it is very good value, I paid US$500 I think in 2016 or 2017, so my cost for Roon so far has been about £60/year and it's reducing the longer I use it. I rip discs to files using the PC + Blu-ray player method, which works with reasonable ease.
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