ROON: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
To be frank, Roon is not the easiest music service to explain. The fact that Roon Labs has its own, dedicated Roon Knowledge website is testament to that. The shortest way to describe Roon is that it’s a multi-device, multi-room music platform.
It manages your music library, tidies your files and directs the flow of music to your motley crew of hi-fi kit. A walled garden of hardware this is not. Roon aims to be a well organised, carefully considered and implemented, democratisation of multi-room.
Roon’s goals are also supreme usability and super-high-quality sound. The interface is designed to be richer than anything else out there and it claims “bit-perfect playback of lossy and lossless file formats, including high-resolution audio content (PCM and DSD)”.
High ideals indeed but, like all good things, Roon doesn’t come cheap. So, if you want to know exactly what the Roon music
