Expert 1000 Pro

[Hifi_swlon]

I may have missed it, but what are the 'Pro' features?

New Class A and Class D amps.  New Magic Wire DAC.  New Power supply and filtering.

[Sarcasm]And the biggest new feature of all, a new streamer board available at a later date that does DLNA.[/Sarcasm]

Ah, OK. I thought there might be some 'proper' pro audio features in there that I'd missed.... Otherwise Pro seems like an odd thing to tag on the end.

And that 'new' OS. They've allowed themselves 18 months by being non-specific with the 2017 so even if they haven't thought about what it might be or do yet, there's still plenty of time (for any company competent with software) to design, build, test and release. I'm not in the market anyway, but I certainly wouldn't be buying one on a non specific promise of those timescales though. That's more like political timescales rather than consumer electronics.

I guess the unit itself would have to be firmware based anyway otherwise it wouldn't work at launch as the OS isn't there yet. So am guessing the OS is just for streaming stuff. So maybe in 18 months RoonReady will be an option on the Expert range after all, for anyone that's still in the market by that point.