Now working with nearly 200 audio brands – including globally recognized names such as Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Devialet, KEF, Harman, McIntosh, and Naim Audio – and supporting over a thousand individual products, Roon has become an essential feature in the listening rooms of music industry heavyweights, music collectors, and music enthusiasts who refuse to play their music from Excel sheet interfaces or have music players that don't show album artwork or truncate metadata.
The Roon team, headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, is obsessive about creating the best experiences for people who love music. Since the company launched the first music product in 2004 and ever since, they’ve pursued new technologies to bring better digital music experiences into peoples’ lives. After collaborating on music software for Sooloos, Meridian Audio, and HP, they founded Roon Labs in 2015.
Roon's software transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a searchable digital magazine about an entire music collection. Roon links all personal audio files with the millions of tracks available on TIDAL and Qobuz streaming services and the software runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs as a server, with an Android or iOS smartphone/tablet used as a control point.
Roon also plays with audio products as varied as network streamers, DACs, wireless speakers, all-in-one systems, and A/V receivers – at prices ranging from $100 to $100,000. Roon’s versatility and widespread compatibility mean users can have the best music experience with every audio product in their homes, regardless of manufacturer, product type, or price.
Recent announcements about lossless and high-resolution streaming from Apple Music and others have kindled new interest in high-quality audio. For listeners who want to go beyond their mobile phone with Bluetooth headphones, Roon provides the largest and highest-performance ecosystem for listening to high resolution music on the widest range of audio equipment.
In addition to Roon Ready products, there are hundreds of Roon Tested products that bring the Roon experience to the rest of the home. Support for Sonos, AirPlay, and Google Cast streaming devices – as well as USB and HDMI receivers and DACs – means that Roon helps users get the best performance out of virtually any audio device. And Roon is also a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform, offering features such as bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel support, and Signal Path display.
With its sophisticated user interface and ever-growing feature set (as evidenced by the recent Roon 1.8 update) and support for high-resolution PCM, DSD and MQA digital audio file formats, Roon is certainly a rich and engaging way to browse, organize, and listen to music.
A full list of Roon partners and certified products is available here: roonlabs.com/partners
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