I was punked earlier by the Coffee store. My phone rang with caller ID. Excited I thought they might be calling to tell me that the Synchronika was ready. Sadly it was a butt dial. Two people were discussing a racoon getting in the trash. I might call them tomorrow offering to loan them our Airedale to deal with the racoon if it will help speed delivery of the machine.
Jura is a good idea but… I had one for 2 years - had it ready to send it back for its 11th warranty repair and decided to check with Costco who sold it to me - got a full refund. Now back to my Breville Double Boiler 920 with a Rancillio grinder. NO issues and great coffee
when we redid the kitchen in our old house around 2004, we had the opportunity to put in one of those Miele in-wall units. Loved it.
When we moved back in 2015, the kitchen in the new place had no wall space for that, so we got the same kinda thing, but as a countertop unit. I swear by it. Although, i will say, every three years or so it needs to go in for some kind of major repair, which usually sets me back $300-400. But i couldn’t live without it.
Haha, great title change!
Yes and an appropriate one given the complete hijacking of this thread. 
Denis Leary’s “coffee bit” from his Lock-n-Load tour is an oldie but goodie that I never tire of hearing. 
I find the new title of this thread to be uninspiring and verbose. Not nearly as succinct and pithy as its predecessor.
Today I joined a coffee subscription service. I don’t know how these have alluded me in the past. It seems kinda cool. There’s a lot of selections and during the process there are several questions that help guide you to beans that fit my taste and brewing methods.
If the math holds up, the service may be ~$1300 less than retail bean purchases per year.
Coffee is probably a better use of this topic. How long could we possibly spend discussing the many ways Samsung, Harmon, and Roon Corp themselves will screw up Roon?
Here’s my one week later thoughts.
Roon Arc has to be what Samsung wants. Roon running in Cloud with metadata services. Roon will integrate Amazon, Apple, and Spotify along with Tidal and Qobuz. Samsung installs Roon Arc on phones and maybe cars. Users who don’t care about local owned content add their music service providers to Arc. They get to create Playlists, get fantastic metadata, and Roon Radio. Since you have a Samsung phone you get the service for free or maybe just for a year. With Apt-X or LDAC it will sound good to wireless headphones and in the car. Perhaps people will explore more music.
Heck - add a social media component to discuss music, and perhaps get notifications on when your bands are going to be local and a way to buy concert tickets.
They may integrate Amazon as they seem to be more inclined to opening up to outside sources lately but I doubt they will get much cooperation from Apple at all and with Spotify only the Connect function like everybody else.
@vkennedy61 I think this thread will see a lot more discussion once Samsung launches their Roon Ready espresso machine; the sole reason for the acquisition.
Oh, PLEASE God, no social media service centered on music. That would be a complete dumpster fire.
HA, I knew there was a dedicated coffee thread around here somewhere. 
There are a number of coffee threads; e.g.,
I’ve just tried to unsubscribe from Roon, but I noticed that my annual payment is due on October. I have time to drink a few coffee before deciding.
Luca, why are you leaving Roon?
Because I don’t use it anymore, last time I launched Roon was probably on April.
The software upgrade before the last improved my sound markedly clarity, openness as well as bass impact. It required the database to be rewritten. I would do a sound revisit, you might enjoy it more than previously, over your other available alternatives.
Thanks Vmax, I’ll give it a try again. I have enough time…
I kept reading SQ from Roon is not as good as from some others (this was not the only reason to keep me from subscribe to it).
But I am still interested in hearing your thoughts from SQ comparison between Sense and Roon. I tend to think my Lumin app sounds great too, but I have no idea how it compares to Roon. But it comes with the gear, and I like it enough without another subscription.
