Evidence of Roon starting to shake up the industry?

[philr]

A fair question about “high end” and as good a answer as can be expected though no doubt there are many differences on the price breakpoints and of course many high end manufacturers have some products at very reasonable prices such to make definitions more difficult

Another recent post about Linn (one of the largest “high end” manufaturers) potentially adopting Roon shows some of the difficulties I was concerned about of getting manufacturers who have already invested in other systems/approaches to move to Roon.

@Michael_Schilder

My question on the forum Will Linn support Roon and implement the SDK???

Response We would like to support Roon. We’d hoped to do this via Songcast but Roon had problems in their initial attempts at this and have been too busy to go back to it. We’d consider implementing RoonSpeakers but would strongly prefer that Roon publish the specifications for RAAT and allow it to be freely implemented (as Linn have done for Songcast). If the protocol remains private to Roon or is licensed under onerous terms, we’re much less likely to support it.

I can’t find any publicly available RoonReady SDK or RAAT protocol specification so it’s too early for us to consider support yet.

Linn’s response is essentially why doesn’t Roon support our system which is opensource and available for all. (There is some discussion about why not elsewhere on this forum I believe.) Then secondly we will only support it if it’s free and available for all. Hopefully other manufacturers are a little more open minded than open source focused or maybe Roon will get back to trying to make Songcast work.