What's All The Fuss And Big Deal About Roon About Roon Being A Must-Have??

The Bluesound Node is Roon ready, meaning it can act as a Roon endpoint. You can not run Roon core on it, however. You will need a computer or music server for that. Roon core features integration of Tidal and Qobuz, DSP and upsampling, multi-source library management, network streaming, and the ability to imbed HQPlayer–all with a nice UI.

In your setup, Roon will not add anything.

I write this as someone who tried Roon for two months and didn't stick with it.  Roon is more about music management and info concerning bands, artists and the like. Like the drummer on a particular track and want to find what other work he's done with other artists? Roon can help. Like a particular band and want to explore similar artists that you're not familiar with? Roon can help.  Want to play an album and then continue with unselected backgrouind music for the rest of the afternoon? Roon can do this.  There are other features along these lines including photos, artist bios, and the like.

I enjoyed these features but ultimately, for how I listen to music, didn't find it worth the price.  I am perfectly happy to explore new music in the fashion that Qobuz offers it, but I know others who really value and enjoy Roon's features in the areas noted above.

I for one have never called Roon a "must have." I agree that it's more about music management and for me, with ~ 500 CD's ( I don't remember, don't count them) plus Tidal plus favorite Internet radio stations I find the metadata management and integration with Tidal just outstanding.

Yes, I can listen to all of my Peter Gabriel tracks, but I can also bring in music I don't own, or I can start listening to 1 artist and end up discovering lots more.

I also really like the DSP capabilities, and multi-room synchronization.

That's what I think it brings and makes a subscription worthwhile for me, but would I try to upsell it as THE feature you must have?  Nah.