Hi
O.T .. just a bit.
This is IMHO one of the main issue with many manufacturers... Making these work shouldn't be that difficult. I am presently into a maddening issue. I am trying to use ROON, which I love, with now a Lenovo Tiny M93p as the core... I simply told ROON to be the Core .. fine! My laptop "sees" the Core but now the Khardas doesn't work with the same ROON software with which it was working before!!! Oh! Another DAC which is ROON-approved, an iFi nano, no longer is "seen" by ROON ...I haven't, yet, been able to make either one of these work. Other Audio services ( Foobar, Spotify, YouTube , etc) work with the Khardas and/or iFi .... the PC can be easily set as the default Audio Device ... Roon has to be one of the better written software out there. So what are the issues? What are the problems? Why is it so darn difficult after all these years of PC as being a Personal Computer. It's been more than 40 years ... since the advent of a PC on everybody's desktop or Home .. what gives?
Other friends have had their iFi nano work with ROON with no issue. They had Dell... Need I purchase a Dell? The more this kind of things goes on, the more we won't see any penetration of computer Audio in the mainstream... when we have such a plethora of great products out there? Even more than decent loudspeakers at more than decent prices ( JBL LSR 3xx, Khali, Vanatoo, Elac, etc ...)? There needs to be more studies done at those levels: Integration and ease of us are key. They're at prehistoric levels in my opinion
Peace