The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.

AnthonyI said:
This is kind of the debate I'm having as well, and ya, like @Mather, if their not wired I'm losing them in a week.

Drop has these on sale at the moment, any thought @Mather?
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These are pushing the budget, we'll have to ponder a bit more, maybe just deal with my "kinky" Meze's :)
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I really liked the Holocenes when I heard them, and that's a really good price. The Campfires have a really unique sound signature so if there's anywhere you can go to hear them I'd really suggest that just to be sure you like what they're doing. But those ones were in consideration for me and at the time they were more than double that price.
 
SnowmaNick said:
Hmmm. Samsung bought Roon.

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As a former employee of Harman who was there through the Samsung acquisition, Roon will have little to no relevance in the audiophile world within 5-7 years. I expect to see a typical Harman slow and silent death of the brand. It’s their signature move.
 
displayname said:
As a former employee of Harman who was there through the Samsung acquisition, Roon will have little to no relevance in the audiophile world within 5-7 years. I expect to see a typical Harman slow and silent death of the brand. It’s their signature move.
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Yeah, that’s my fear. Infinity, Lexicon, Proceed, shit, even Levinson to a degree have all had some hard times under Harman. I have a lot of Harman gear (JBL, JBL Synthesis, Revel, Arcam stuff, and a Roon Nucleus now), but I’m finding myself hesitant about buying more.
 
displayname said:
As a former employee of Harman who was there through the Samsung acquisition, Roon will have little to no relevance in the audiophile world within 5-7 years. I expect to see a typical Harman slow and silent death of the brand. It’s their signature move.
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Damn. Is it incompetence or do they just buy stuff to gut it? Why buy Roon and then do nothing with it? They aren’t even a competitor are they?
 
MikeH said:
Damn. Is it incompetence or do they just buy stuff to gut it? Why buy Roon and then do nothing with it? They aren’t even a competitor are they?
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I mean if the own job, arcam, revel, etc…

I think a lot of companies want their own in house streaming/management stuff (room correction is getting some traction here too). Hitching your cart up with the one used by the guys buying your 10k+ speakers makes a lot of sense.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean if the own job, arcam, revel, etc…

I think a lot of companies want their own in house streaming/management stuff (room correction is getting some traction here too). Hitching your cart up with the one used by the guys buying your 10k+ speakers makes a lot of sense.
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Yea--I figured this may not be a terrible thing, but it does feel like 9/10 times big companies do swallow these smaller guys then just do nothing with it or somehow make it worse.

I'm still mad Apple bought Dark Skies which was my favorite weather app and now I have to deal with stupid apple's own damn weather app which is the worst.
 
MikeH said:
Yea--I figured this may not be a terrible thing, but it does feel like 9/10 times big companies do swallow these smaller guys then just do nothing with it or somehow make it worse.

I'm still mad Apple bought Dark Skies which was my favorite weather app and now I have to deal with stupid apple's own damn weather app which is the worst.
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Dark Skies ruled.

My tinfoil hat view of the Roon deal was that I wondered if Samsung bought it to get intel on their competitors. I wonder what kind of specs you have to submit to get Roon certified, and they’ve just bought a database of all that info.
 
Thackeraye said:
Dark Skies ruled.

My tinfoil hat view of the Roon deal was that I wondered if Samsung bought it to get intel on their competitors. I wonder what kind of specs you have to submit to get Roon certified, and they’ve just bought a database of all that info.
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very well could be. that's one of my bigger worries too--they stop letting Roon be used on other devices that aren't Samsung or their own brands.....that would truly suck.

I picked a bad time to do a lifetime membership, huh?
 
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