Is the Roon Core in the signal path? [Answered - Yes]

Roon Software Discussion
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Auralic recently made their Aries Mini Roon Ready. I’m running the Roon Core on my Macbook Pro. When I’m streaming Tidal, I get this signal path:

Tidal -> Aries Mini RR -> USB Dac with all nodes purple

Does this mean that the Tidal music streams from my cable modem to the Aries Mini directly, or is the Roon Core somewhere in the signal path? Schematically, is it this:

cable modem -> Aries Mini RR -> USB Dac

or is it this:

cable modem -> Roon Core on Macbook -> Aries Mini RR -> USB Dac

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All signals pass through Core. Or more correctly: it is your Core that is getting the streams from Tidal, passing them through to your Aries Mini.