Roon Aquisition: Will This Help Or Hamper?

Harman also owns dbx.  So maybe tap some of the DSP resources. 

There's a comparison with the photography world here. I'd say it's a safe bet that the change of ownership will be used to start to obsolete perpetual licences using the model which has become prevalent in photography i.e. the original software will continue to work - for a time a least - but additional features will have to be paid for and once there is a major computer OS change the "legacy" software will not be updated to be compatible.

We’ll see what happens at annual budget time when Roon audio engineering leadership meets corporate finance.  Roon is an engineering-driven company. If Harmon is just buying technology, we’ll see some personnel changes at Roon pretty fast. If Harmon keeps a lighter touch and lets Roon continue it’s underdog role, we Roon users could see some pretty cool stuff. We’ll see how anxious non-Harmon companies are now to embrace Roon Readiness…

They seem to think it will be helpful (roon) I have never been a fan of the Roon Environment and found it very inadequate in comparison to other platforms such as Innuos, Sotm, Silent Angle, Tiako. alibet the software is easy to use as is the Sense  and Mind2 applications. 

We will see.  I got the lifetime license earlier this year and its been worth every penny so far.