Roon does not charge a licence fee to the manufacturers for its use

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@Neil_Russell

NAD obviously doesn’t think Roon is a necessity, or they would have done what is necessary to get the M33 and a couple of other models certified as Rood Ready.

…or maybe you are being impatient and jumping to incorrect conclusions. Here is an email and screenshot from NAD showing M33 being Roon Ready:

Why is NAD M10 Roon Certified and M33 not?

Thank you for contacting the NAD Electronics Support Crew. We sincerely apologize for the undue delay in getting back to you. We are very pleased to announce that in the coming days, we will be launching BluOS 3.14. Amongst some other great added features, ROON has fully Certificatied the Award Winning NAD M33 and NAD T778 flagship AV Receiver. I hope this information helps and am going to mark this request as solved to prevent you from receiving reminder emails from our system. Thank you for…

and here is the M33 on our NAD page:

https://roonlabs.com/partners/nad

@Neil_Russell

PS Audio doesn’t think Roon is necessary in upcoming product

That makes sense since their founder has publically stated that they are making a competing product to Roon… Although I’ve not heard any more news on that front for a while now (year+). Maybe they are getting close?