Roon vs the world (streaming software)

@jnehma1: 

Tidal going under? Is this a possibility? I was more worried of Roon going under after they have used up all lifetime membership fees, The reason why I renew on an annual basis.

I pay for roon on the annual plan for the same reasons as others have stated, wonder about competition in the next few years. I really like roon for it's UI and their OS which to me improves the sound, totally subjective observation. 

@jorgjean I don’t have any insider info on anything but Amazon music “HD” came out and suddenly I see a non stop stream of special offers for Tidal... 5 months for $5, 4 months for $4 (that’s total, not per month, and includes the hifi tier), discounted annual rates, 3 free months when you buy a Blue Sound product... It seemed like they were desperate for cash but that’s just a random interpretation.

Send some of those offers this way! I'm still in the trial!

I purchased an annual subscription of Roon. It’s about to expire and I won’t be renewing.  There’s no question that Roon offers the best user experience - best GUI, library management etc.  But, Auralic’s conductor app is also quite good. Auralic’s Lighting DS (LDS) is less good but still quite nice  - more than adequate.  More importantly, LDS sounds significantly better than Roon.  I’m not the only who feels this way.  My suspicion is the native app deals with buffers and cache better than Roon which has to work across multiple platforms.  In any case, sound quality is first so I’m dumping Roon.