PS Audio's DirectStream Junior

[Bill Leebens]

AFAIK, the "Network Bridge II" built into the DS Junior can function as a Roon endpoint, so you would still need to have Roon (formerly known as Roon Core) or Roon Server running on a computer of some sort (could be Windows, Linux, or macOS). Unless it's really old (say, pre-2010), your iMac should be able to run Roon. Something like this is about the minimum you can get away with for running Roon Server. Alternatively, you might be able to install Roon Server on your NAS if it's a QNAP or Synology unit. You can find detailed information about this on the Roon community site.

 

 

--David

 

Angelo, I was going to post the official PS Audio answer, but Orgel pretty well covered everything!

 

The only thing I'd add is that here could problems indexing the whole NAS in one go---

there's a post on a Plex forum regarding a 20TB library, and the poster said that it took 72 hours to initially index his files.

Be advised that there could be indexing errors if you try to have Roon index the entire library in one go.

 

Beyond that---enjoy!

 

Cheers, Bill