How to combine ROCK HQ-Player

A couple weeks ago I started this topic, trying to figure out why Roon had become so very slow in searching and loading files. After upgrading my Rock, and exploring a number of leads, I’m coming to the conclusion that the slowness is mostly on Roon’s end of things, and there may be little I can do about it. I hope the techs at Roon are working on fixing the problem, since I’ve loved Roon since I first came onboard many years ago, and I’m a lifetime subscriber. My curiosity here is whether HQ Player might handle things a bit differently, and if it could be of help in regaining the old “snappiness” I would set a budget of over $1,000 to do it.
Here are my devices:

And in answer to your question about DSP, all of these zones have the following settings: