HARMAN Acquires Roon, a Popular Multi-Device, Multi-Room Audio Technology Platform – Samsung Global Newsroom

Roon’s Audiophile-High quality Music Aggregation, Connectivity and Streaming Expertise to Complement HARMAN’s Complete Audio Choices

HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, centered on related applied sciences for automotive, shopper, and enterprise markets, at this time introduced the acquisition of Roon, the music administration, discovery, and streaming platform for music fanatics.

Roon is a music participant platform for music fanatics, which encompasses a wealthy interface for searching and discovering music, compatibility with nearly any audio machine, and a playback engine designed to ship the very best sound. Roon is offered for all well-liked working programs and manufactures a line of {hardware} server home equipment referred to as Nucleus.

“At HARMAN we take nice delight in our skill to create distinctive audio experiences for our companions and shoppers around the globe,” stated Dave Rogers, President, Life-style Division, HARMAN. “The group at Roon shares our ardour in bringing distinctive sound and connectivity to music lovers as they browse, uncover, and pay attention at residence and on the go. We’re wanting ahead to welcoming Roon, whose spectacular expertise will be part of the HARMAN household and bolster our already strong engineering capabilities.”

Roon will function as a standalone Harman enterprise with its current group. All Roon operations will keep in place and proceed to be devoted to serving and rising Roon’s group of machine companions and clients, underneath a joint mission to ship partaking and personalised audio experiences throughout a universe of merchandise and platforms.

Aligned with its ‘work with all’ technique, HARMAN is dedicated to rising Roon’s open machine ecosystem which incorporates collaborating with greater than 160 different audio manufacturers, delivering audio to greater than 1000 high-performance gadgets. Roon’s dedication to its loyal group and its distinctive UI/UX design experience will proceed to develop and flourish with the acquisition.

“Our group is ecstatic to hitch HARMAN, a visionary firm that has been main the audio trade ahead for many years,” stated Enno Vandermeer, CEO of Roon. “By combining forces with HARMAN, Roon positive aspects the unbelievable scale, sources, and attain of a worldwide know-how chief, whereas sustaining our independence to put money into the enterprise’s development and future. We look ahead to persevering with to convey our superior knowledge administration, SaaS experience, and shopper engagement capabilities to our broad ecosystem of companions, as we be part of forces with HARMAN to ship even larger audio experiences to our clients.”