Modest system upgrade opinions please :-)

[pvanosta]

Another option would be to, rather than the Altair, get the Vega G1 (used if necessary). It works perfectly as a Roon endpoint and accepts the signal via ethernet as well. I was running it as follows:

- Roon ROCK on a fanless NUC (ROCK only, no music files)

- music library on a Synology NAS

- everything wired via ethernet through a Gigabit switch

- ethernet from that same switch to a Vega G1

- Balanced from the Vega to a Parasound JC2-BP and then to monoblocks.

It sounded great and just worked. The Altair G1 is cheaper than the Vega G1and it has a bunch of features you don;t need as a Roon user (Lightning DS etc). The Vega is 'just' a dac with a LAN input, so it only does the one thing and does it very well...