Thanks for the question, and I’m sorry this is something we haven’t been more clear about.
With our 1.2 release and the introduction of Roon Core for Linux, we will also kick off the Roon Core partner program.
Roon Core partner servers are tested to meet all the requirements to run Roon, and we have them in-house for QA and Support.
They won’t be “certified” in the way that the performance of Roon Ready endpoint devices is certified… there is too much variability in servers for us to be able to guarantee their performance… but there will be partners whose Roon Core devices we can support.
This last piece is the important part. We have already found situations where server manufacturers have installed Roon on a server for a customer, but when it comes time to support the user, the server maker has done things that make it hard for us to figure out what is going on and we haven’t been able to easily help the customer.
In these cases, a “turnkey” solution was actually harder to support than a diy computer solution. The Roon Core program was set up to address this situation.
So, to answer in regards to Antipodes… they will be a Roon Core partner, not a Roon Ready partner, since they make a server.
They will send it in for us to be able to test it and have it in-house for QA and Support, but it will not be “certified” in the way that Roon Ready devices are certified… how powerful it is as a computing device and how the interface performs, we cannot say.