I looked into this a while back but wasn't particularly impressed by what was available. Some of the DAC HATs offer performance that will be audibly indistinguishable form separate DACs, I don't think you can say the same for the Amp HATs
QUOTE="watchnerd, post: 622752, member: 238"]Yeah, the amps are a real step down compared to other options.
Far less true for the DACs.
But if you had some special use case where you needed a tiny amp connect to Roon to, I dunno, power little wall mount speakers above your bath tub at soft levels, it might be okay.[/QUOTE]
Assuming that indeed we need an amp and we need a separate component for this. Perhaps in this case would it be more clear cut to offload dac and amp together to one component maybe an SMSL SA300.
By the way, what sw required in order for spotify to work? Thanks