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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.




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