What's stopping me from buying Roon

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

@ddean

All other network audio protocols are second class citizens in the Roon world.

I think I’d take some issue with this. Roon seems to have done a careful job with Sonos, KEF, AirPlay, and particularly Chromecast protocols, as well. Chromecast works pretty well for non-extreme sampling rates, and I’d say is competitive with RAAT. But if you know something we (the contributors to the thread below) don’t, please add that knowledge to the thread below.

"Roon Ready" versus "Chromecast built-in"?

We were discussing this in another thread, and it got me thinking about whether “Chromecast built-in” is really Roon Ready in another guise. In other words, what’s the difference? Here’s what I understand from past discussions in the forum: In use with Chromecast, Roon downloads their own code to the device, which then runs in some kind of Chrome technology “container” inside the device and is allowed to manipulate the functionality of the device within certain limits imposed by the API which …