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The subject says it all, there's announcements on Roon's site and I assume on Harmon's site. The Roon announcement I saw was largely "feely goody" about how they both think it's a great partnership but it did contain the only really important info I think most of us are interested in: there's no change to anything as far as Roon users are concerned. Subscriptions are the same, they're valid for the period you signed up for so life subscriptions are still life subscriptions, no mention of any change in subscription rated.
That's it in a nutshell.
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Harman is owned by Samsung, so it'll probably be integrated into your mobile phone soon.
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Not my mobile phone, I have an iPhone :-)
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I am wondering if this will have a positive impact on a next version of the ROON Nucleus+ which is currently not deliverable outside of the US.
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Wonder away, but I know no more than I've read and what I've read said nothing about the Nuclueus or Nucleus+.
Harman has a large audio division which includes companies which make electronics as well as its stable of speaker manufacturers. Roon is basically a software company and the Nucleus/Nucleus+ are not Roon's main product, there software is.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Roon stop producing the Nucleus/Nucleus+ and simply collaborate with one or more of Harman's companies like Arcam who would produce and sell a server product which essentially replaced the Nucleus/Nucleus+.
On the other hand, Harman has several audio electronics companies and several speaker companies who produce competing products so it's equally possible that Roon will continue to develop and sell Nucleus products and Harman's electronics companies will benefit from Roon's knowledge and expertise as they develop their own lines of Roon Ready products and it wouldn't surprise me if that happens instead.
There's only one way we're going to find out and that's to wait and see what happens.
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Some quite significant news from Roon as a result of this acquisition: https://community.roonlabs.com/t/a-messa.../264251/12.
Highlights from my point of view are: there's no longer a requirement for an Internet connection to use Roon 2.0, and there's a promise of improvements for those of us using locally-stored music.
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I received my Roon Nucleus One this week in Germany and managed to migrate my local music library to the internal SDD on the Nucleus.
It was a bit more tricky to migrate the Roon database and I was not fully successful. Although, this was less important since my playlists are stored in Qobuz and all this was transferred automaticlly into Roon, same as reading in my local library. I also have set-up a synchronization of my music library between my Mac SDD and the Nucleus SDD.
So, did I realize any improvements? Yes!
First, I can access my music in Roon on the fly via the Roon app on my iPhone. No need to wake up my Mac before.
Second, there is an VPN app called Tailscale installed on the Nucleus One (and on my iPhone now) which finally enables Roon ARC to access my music library from remote, outside my Wifi network.
Finally, I have the impression that the sound has improved with a wider soundstage 
Anything I am missing? Yes!
There is an HDMI output in Nucleus One and I would like to see an HDMI input as well to allow Hires streaming from my Oppo SACD player.
Anyone else made first experiences with the Nucleus One?
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