I went straight from Trial to Lifetime membership.
One reason was I felt that the Roon team continue to listen to their users and improve their product at a high rate. They look like they're in it for the long haul with the way they set up partnerships in the music/hifi industry.
Key improvements in the year or so since I started using Roon:
1. The RAAT transport upgrade in V1.2. When used with microRendu as Roon Ready endpoint, this seemed to improve SQ to the point I prefered over my previous HQ Player, which was the best sounding (with poor usability) player up to that point.
2. The DSP functions in V1.3. In particular, the Parametric EQ is great for both usability and SQ.
3. The introduction later in V1.3 of Single-Click Playback was a major usability improvement for those us who are album orientated, as opposed to the Queue/Playlist style that previously dominated.
They continue to provide frequent ongoing improvements.
One function that I'd like to use is the auto volume leveling (when switching between different albums/tracks), but unfortunately I find that this impacts SQ, but I live in hope that this also will be improved one day.
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