Comment by Semaphor

24 days ago

Note that it is a $12.49 subscription, or $829.99 one-time. So you really need to love its featureset.

That's some serious price. If you're a professional music maker and need top-of-the-line audio production software, Ableton 12 Suite is ~600 EUR, and that's for making music, not consuming.

  • The audiophile market often seems to work like this. Insanely overpriced for marginal or nonexistent gains in quality.

    • It’s not unlike sports cars: most have them for the _pursuit_ … and where that emotion is involved, price and realized benefit become decoupled.

    • You don't understand, Roon's source code is gold plated and that means there's less line noise buzz in the playback or something

  • Music consumers and music creators are not the same demographic.

    Price in one has no bearing on price in the other.