Let's hope the wood is FSC certified. At least, they didn't use ivory.Simply absurd.
Roon Labs and Harman International Unveil Groundbreaking Nucleus Titan at CES 2024
Nucleus Titan melds cutting-edge performance with breathtaking aesthetics, delivering the ultimate platform for Roon music software. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (January 9th, 2024) – Roon, the world…blog.roonlabs.com
What'll be more absurd is if some thingamabobs from Harman/Samsung become the only supported server platforms for Roon in the future, and there's some kind of cloud service one is required to have active for anything to work at all.Simply absurd.
Roon Labs and Harman International Unveil Groundbreaking Nucleus Titan at CES 2024
Nucleus Titan melds cutting-edge performance with breathtaking aesthetics, delivering the ultimate platform for Roon music software. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (January 9th, 2024) – Roon, the world…
Despite holding corporates in disdain, I doubt they'd make Roon so dependent on their hardware (at rip-off prices, too), even though they probably would like to.
Hard to predict. They own the product, service, and engineering lock, stock, and barrel. Which they probably got for a song. And they can afford to play the long game, whatever their long game is.
Can you tell us where you get the 300k users figure from? The Roon marketing still says “over 100k”.
community.roonlabs.com
Interesting. One then wonders why the marketing claim isn’t higher?Per one of the founders, they were close to 300K in Sept 2022.
Roon 2.0 and internet connectivity [it's just like 1.8 now]
it’s close to 300k now. I never gave these numbers, you are guessing… but your guess is pretty damn good! So far, out of ~300k users, 40% are using 2.0 already. About 200 users are on legacy 1.8, and most are running old Macs or PCs that can’t take the 2.0 update due to minimum OS version...
I'm pretty sure that the majority of Roon users are monthly subscribers, but let's assume that half are and that all monthly subscribers pay annually (best price), and that Roon gets no revenue from its other products, certifications, or partners. Just to keep things simple and not be too optimistic.
roon.app
I'm pretty sure that the majority of Roon users are monthly subscribers, but let's assume that half are and that all monthly subscribers pay annually (best price), and that Roon gets no revenue from its other products, certifications, or partners. Just to keep things simple and not be too optimistic.
150,000 x $149 = 22.4 million revenue annually, worst case. Compared to Harman (~11 billion revenue), Roon is a tiny company. Compared to others in the audio industry that cater to audiophiles, I would guess that makes them one of the big boys. More interesting to me would be to know if they were profitable, but that info is not publicly available AFAICT.
Roon - Pricing
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Well, I have to hand it to them that they're saying the right things. And getting rid of the miserable Internet connectivity requirement is a move in the right direction.A Message from the Roon Founders
To everyone in the Roon community, Last November, Roon Labs was acquired by Harman International. This marks a new beginning for Roon, our industry partners, and our team. Today, we want to discuss…
I watched a video review and setup looked supremely easy.
if i understand correctly - you have to supply your own 2.5" SSD/HDD and there is no option for m.2 expansion, right?No, ethernet only. Which is more a pro as a con for meAs I told you lately as soon it is running I come back too you!
how can you tell though? they haven't released details of the internals, have they??
