![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Roon stubbornly refused to add certain, obvious features. I spent a winter ripping all my CDs, editing metadata, and loading the music into my Roon library: I still have nightmares about importing boxed sets. Its design wasn't especially amenable to classical music (although it was as good as anything else). For a product that sold itself on the richness of its information environment, it wasn't all that rich. I was an early Roon adopter, but I always had complaints. ![]() The future of hi-fior should I say its presentwas taking shape. I assembled my first network-attached storage (NAS) device, with 10TB of storage space shared, with redundancy, across four large hard drives, stashed in a back-room closet. Soon, after some upgrades, Roon and my DAC were talking to each other, and I was up and streaming. I built up an Intel NUC and loaded it with ROCKthe Roon-Optimized Core Kitand Roon. I had a vision of how things ought to work, but the world didn't conform. ![]() The experiences offered by the various control apps I tried were unsatisfying. I was already a Roon user, but Roon and my DACa PS Audio DirectStreamweren't yet talking to each other. Streaming audio was a great idea, but how would I get the music data from wherever it lives to my DAC's Ethernet port? I bought my first streaming DAC in 2016, even though I wasn't yet convinced about streaming. ![]()
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