HARMAN Acquires Roon to Enhance Audio Experiences
HARMAN, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has made a strategic move to enhance its technology for the automotive market by acquiring music management platform Roon. This acquisition aims to provide music lovers with high-quality music through search access and streaming capabilities.
Roon: A Premiere Music Playing Platform
Roon is a music playing platform designed specifically for music enthusiasts. It offers a rich interface for browsing and song search, and is compatible with a wide range of audio devices. Roon’s state-of-the-art playback control software has been meticulously crafted to deliver superior sound quality.
Roon is available for popular operating systems and also offers a hardware server device called Nucleus.
HARMAN President’s Perspective
President of Lifestyle Products at HARMAN, Dave Rogers, expressed pride in creating remarkable audio experiences for partners and consumers worldwide. He emphasized the shared passion with the Roon team to deliver superb sound quality and connectivity to music lovers, both at home and on the go.
Continued Operations and Commitments
Assuring smooth continuity, Roon will maintain its operations within HARMAN, leveraging its talented team. The company vows to expand its portfolio of partner manufacturers and customers to provide immersive audio experiences tailored for each user.
HARMAN’s commitment to a “Total Collaboration” strategy includes expanding Roon’s open device ecosystem, benefitting over 160 audio brands and more than 1,000 high-performance devices.
CEO of Roon’s Outlook
Enno Vandermeer, Roon’s CEO, expressed pride in joining HARMAN and highlighted the opportunity to enhance resources and maintain independence in driving the company’s growth and future.
Vandermeer outlined plans to bring advanced data management and software expertise to amplify the broader partner ecosystem and enrich users’ audio experiences in collaboration with HARMAN.
CEO’s Commitment to Users
Reassuring Roon users, Vandermeer confirmed that all subscriptions and services will remain intact without interruption. The company commits to continuing support services and preserving compatibility with Roon-certified audio products.
Community Reassurance
Addressing concerns about Roon’s long-term viability, co-founder Danny Dulai reaffirmed the company’s steadfast commitment to its product and users. He emphasized a long-term vision and unwavering dedication to maintaining the infrastructure for its loyal customers.
Source: Samsung Newsroom, Roon
HARMAN, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, focuses on developing technology for the automotive market. Consumer and corporate products announced the acquisition of music management platform Roon. Search access and streaming for high quality music lovers.
Roon is a music playing platform for music lovers. It has a rich interface for browsing. Including song search Compatible with a wide range of audio devices, Roon also has state-of-the-art playback control software that has been carefully designed to deliver the best possible sound quality. as much as possible
Roon is also available for the most popular operating systems, and Roon also produces a hardware server device called Nucleus.
“At HARMAN, we take great pride in creating great audio experiences for our partners and consumers around the world,” said Dave Rogers, President of Lifestyle Products at HARMAN.
“The Roon team shares our passion for bringing great sound quality and connectivity to music lovers. Both while they are listening to music at home or listening to music outside.
We look forward to welcoming the Roon team with their impressive level of talent. They will join the HARMAN family and strengthen our already strong engineering capabilities.”
Roon will continue to conduct business as usual with HARMAN while still using the original Roon team, whether that be in the matter of providing services. as well as expanding Roon’s portfolio of partner manufacturers and customers with a common mission of providing immersive audio experiences. Good experience using the product and the use of an entire platform that can be customized to suit each user.
To be consistent with the “Total Collaboration” strategy HARMAN is committed to expanding Roon’s open device ecosystem, which includes partnerships with more than 160 other audio brands, to deliver audio to more than 1,000 high-performance devices.
Roon’s commitment to users and expertise in excellent UI/UX design will continue to be developed and expanded with this acquisition.
“Our team is very proud to be joining HARMAN, a visionary company that has been at the forefront of the audio industry for decades,” said Enno Vandermeer, CEO of Roon.
“By joining HARMAN, Roon expands in resources and access to incredible channels typical of a global technology leader. while maintaining our independence to invest in the growth and future of the business.
We look forward to bringing advanced data management. Our expertise in software as a service (SaaS) and tapping into real user needs continues to build on our broad partner ecosystem. In the meantime, we are teaming up with HARMAN to provide our customers with an even better audio experience.”
[UPDATE 28 พ.ย. 2023, /23:00น. ตามเวลาในประเทศไทย]
After this news spread Many questions have arisen, especially from those who currently use Roon’s services, most recently Enno Vandermeer. Roon’s founder and CEO released a statement to the Roon community, in part, answering those questions:
• The status of all monthly, annual and lifetime subscriptions remains active. and will continue without interruption.
• The trial will continue and changes can usually be made.
• There will be no change in the billing process.
• This community site (will continue to be a source for discussion about Roon, audio equipment and music as always.
• CUSTOMER CARE Roon’s customer support services will continue as is currently the case.
• All Roon-compatible audio products will continue to work with Roon, and Roon is committed to continuing to certify new Roon Ready and Roon Tested products from all brands.
• Our familiar team will continue to work with Roon as always.
Another concern for Age of Roon users or those paying a large sum of money for a one-time purchase. (currently almost 30,000 baht) is what will happen to them if the company shrinks or is sold? This question was asked in October 2015, and Roon co-founder Danny Dulai responded as follows:
“The Roon team was formed from the remnants of the Sooloos team which was formed over 10 years ago. We continue to maintain the infrastructure for Sooloos users who have joined us since the first time in 2006. We are in a business with long-term commitments. We do not receive any external funding. And we have already rejected some purchase offers, this company, this product, is our life. our love And we intend to be here for a long, long time.
Of course, I cannot say what will happen in the future. But it would definitely make me bleed if I couldn’t take care of those life members. You really can go on for the rest of your life 😀”
Source: Samsung Newsroom, Roon
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