Why I've quit Roon after a few years use

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@Mike_O_Neill

Whilst I agree in principal, I AM stuck with old kit , my Cambridge Audio CXN V1 specifically. CA have recently upgrade all their other streamer platforms to Roon Ready but according to their Support Team the CXN V1 has technical limitations

The CXN can also use various digital inputs. If you require networking, a low cost network bridge or even something running RoonBridge can help you out.

@cereal_killer

Interesting you referred to old equipment, do you feel roon is only for new kit? maybe worthy of carrying the roonready status on roon approval.

Not at all… but you may have to do some workarounds to get older gear working. Also, as time goes on, this problem gets smaller and smaller.

We have solutions for the aging products of the past, but we are looking at the future.

@cereal_killer

Many people have a found work arounds, so why not embrace potential audiences which are otherwise excluded, do you think they value roon higher than there much loved high-end system?

I would hope they do. Our experience shows that people have far more loyalty towards products that create the user experience. It’s one of the reasons we made Roon and not audio products.

@cereal_killer

isn’t that in itself a very limiting factor to prospective end users?

Not if we get the industry as a whole to switch to RAAT – which we have been quite successful at doing (just check the evergrowing Roon Ready/RoonTested partners list).

@cereal_killer

RAAT or any other protocol isn’t the issue, the openness is what i suppose really matters from an end users POV

You keep saying this, but you don’t say WHY it matters.

I cover here, in this very old post of mine, why UPnP is bad. Some of it comes from openness and a lack of hard certification requirements for implementation:

What's wrong with UPnP?

@AndersVinberg: We are working with Bel Canto to get RAAT into their devices. Our contempt for UPnP basically comes down to a few things: UPnP requires codec support on the endpoint, therefore making different endpoints support a different subset of whats out there. This also puts a burden of patent licensing on the manufacturer. UPnP has no good solution for streaming proprietary/unsupported/new formats UPnP creates an ecosystem of lowest common denominator support UPnP lacks “a brain”, like…