[Nicolai P. Zwar]

The T+A plays just about anything you throw at is… CDs, WAVs, FLACs, ALACs, AIFFs, MP3, UPnP/DLNA, it’s got Qobuz/Deezer/Tidal/Roon “built in”

Hopefully you get updates many years to come for the services supported… That’s the kind of dependency on these devices that would puzzle me if I had such.

I definitely understand that, we are living in a world were some things change fast… I bought the device in 2017 (there were few comparable units out there at the time), but so far, there have been regular updates and if I have any questions or issues, T+A has reliably answered. Can’t really complain about the service. I have a Qobuz subscription and use occasionally Roon (I had used Tidal for a while, never had a Spotify or Deezer subscription anyway) and so far it all works fine. But who knows what tomorrow will bring? Who knows if any of these streaming services will be there in five years, or even in two, or even next month… If I had to rely on updates to keep the device useful, yeah… I understand those worries.

However, my previous Technics system played for 20 years and never got any updates. Because obviously amps and CD-players usually don’t need updates. Classic HiFi devices did not require updates, there was no Internet, no way to even get updates, and the “bulk” of the T+A device is simply “classic HiFi“.

The thing that’s update relevant would be obviously music services like Qobuz/Deezer/Tidal/Roon. Now even if all of these went out of existence and the T+A would get no updates at all anymore… even then it would still be an excellent amplifier and CD player and Network streamer, it would still be an excellent amp for the Blu-rayplayer and TV set, and it would still be an exceptionally good DAC where I could hook up any additional devices I want, so it’s still quite “future proof”.