You could show them this.
Forum strapline etc.
I have to be honest, if I wasnāt testing a busload of things with USB inputs, I wouldnāt have bothered. It still amazes me how good the nigh on decade old Naim ND5XS that is now upstairs is in terms of its ui and general operation (takes on the sonic performance donāt really apply here). If I was spending my own money*, I donāt think Iād have gone all in.
*I did spend my own money on a Nucleus but that was still a business purchase and done to take the load off my laptop.
No it hasnāt.
Fuck you Roon, That has decided me, I wonāt be bothering
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LOL - I got as far as getting it to enumerate some files, and I think it could play something back if you really frigged it with the debugger, then I got a job.
Jan '17. Given what the job turned out to be I should have stuck to Android 
Seems Roon has now managed to blow its own website up. Tidal and Qobuz canāt be accessed but material previously added to your library can. Qwality stuff.
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Alfa*
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This outage does not appear to be Roonās fault. See here:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/20005
Roon and others use Google Cloud Services. Effectively Googleās servers seem to have sharted all over the place and the cleanup is taking a while. All the other stuff is Roonās fault mindā¦
Itās ironic that half the point of cloud services is availability, resilience etc. but when the entire thing craps out underneath you youāre both stuffed and powerless to fix it.
Itās not just Google, AWS and Azure suffer from the same class of total toes-up as well.
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After going to an actual hi-fi shop the other day Iām currently considering (re-re-)installing Roon. It was funny to see the traditional demo rooms replaced effectively by a bank of PCs running Roon with piles of desktop DACs lying around. (my favourite was the Chord Dave - sue me).
The computing landscape in my house has changed a lot since March - the desktop PC and desktop speakers are gone. I have a laptop that is basically a juke box. And I do a lot more headphone listening.
The NUC I bought to be a Core is gone, but I believe I still have a Roon license until February or March so I could give it another crack. using the laptop as Core and endpoint.
I suspect that it will just annoy me again just before it completely shits itself and I uninstall it in disgust.
@Kevin did you end up giving it the bumās rush? What (if anything) are you using as a player now?
OK, I just read back up thread and saw how annoyed I got with it last time.
I think I shall eschew going back there.
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You can even sub monthly now!
I have/had some half-baked cock-eyed plan involving this
https://chordelectronics.co.uk/product/2go/
which amongst other things is a Roon endpoint.
Do it. We have the best Chord technical support around 
on here.
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Heās already been flagged as a troublesome customer from the roon rants.
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It needs the Hugo2 (or the as yet unreleased 2Yu) to do anything though, just so weāre clear.
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Yes, Iād understood that.
I was initially looking at the Hugo2 just as a DAC and was surprised / pleased to see that it now has a strap-on streaming thing.
But yeah, that technical support 
TMI 
We should advertise this more, we would get all the best traffic.
To be honest, 2Go is actually fairly straightforward because it has Ethernet. If all else fails, you can plug it in and go āwhat the fuck is wrong with you?ā which is a luxury denied its exclusively wireless little brother.
The one that lives here has been absolutely fine save for struggling a bit on my feeble and congested wireless as itās furthest from the router.
And yes. In shot is Chord, Naim and PMC. You may all need to calm down for a bit.
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