Harman acquires Roon

On the topic of Roon,  I just got the update where they break out Roon Core into separate parts including now Roon Server.  That makes sense but have not seen any of the performance enhancements Roon touts for this materialize yet.  If anything it seems slower and buggier so far. So a bit of a stumble there so far but hopefully a short lived one.   I still am a big Roon fan. 

high hopes but hopefully some of the $ will go to bulking up customer support beyond the crowdsourcing mantra of “ reboot 6 times, it worked for me “ model that seems popular w some brands…

Of course, one more rung up on the corporate ladder is Samsung which owns Harman.  Many storied brands under the Harman umbrella. 

The question is why. It could very well be they feel it’s cheaper to buy Roon than develop their own in house music software, but what they think music software should do may be very different from the Roon user base.

Would be a shame if Harman acquired Roon for some small part of the tech stack and then abandons the rest of it.

Harman International is owned by Samsung. It markets its products under various brands. These include Arcam, Harman Kardon, Mark Levinson, Lexicon, Revel, Infinity and JBL. 

I could foresee them selling audio integrated amps with Roon-specific proprietary streaming software, or Roon enabled active/wireless speakers. They also market car audio systems. It's possible in any of these configurations they and could offer Roon that would bypass the need to use IOS/Android devices.