Thanks for the review! Just ordered one. I was waiting for this to confirm the optical output is good. I think that’s mostly what a lot of us care about. I don’t really care about the built-in DAC or lack of Roon support, and I also don’t care that it’s not personally recommended.
@amirm uses Roon so that’s why he “personally” doesn’t recommend it, I take it. I’ll be using it mostly to get away from my old AppleTV I use for AirPlay, as it gets interrupted by just about anything else I do on my phone. I might also dip my toes on Amazon HD. For the current price, it’s not much of a gamble and could always be used in a secondary system somewhere else in the house.