Connection of M500 DAC

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QNAP. Roon 1.8

Is there a way to connect M500 DAC which has USB input to use with Roon?
I have Roon core installed on QNAP NAS.
I tried USB to LAN adapter, but it does not work.

Regards,
Konstantin.

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You need an roon renderer in your setup.
Feed the M500 from a roon enabled endpoint like a Sonore micro/ultra rendu, and enable the endpoint on you roon core. Thats how I am connected, and it works perfectly.

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Or even cheaper a raspberry pi running Riopeee then USB from there, under $100

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Thank you for replies!

I am afraid I will open can of worms asking if Raspberry will sound better/worse than microRendu?
Looks like they are equivalent based on my limited knowledge, because it is just bytes stream delivered to the same DAC, which does main job.

Regards,
Konstantin.

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This should help and a RPi4 is even better IMHO. Archimago's Musings: MEASUREMENTS: Raspberry Pi 3 as USB Audio Streamer (with recommended CRAAP config & TIDAL/MQA arrives)

I use the SMSL SU-9 with a RPi4 running Ropieee and it’s awesome.

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