I hear that stock is expected to improve later this year. Just the same, I started a thread about an inexpensive alternative I’ve been playing with a while back.
For years, the humble Raspberry Pi provided tinkerers with an inexpensive way to create great sounding Roon zones. Just flash a $10 microSD card with RoPieee, DietPi, VitOS or similar, pop it into a $35 RPi board, add power, and without much effort or expense, you had a new Roon zone. Connect virtually any USB DAC and it would show up in Roon. Such fun.
Sadly, at least in America, new RPi boards have not been officially sold to end users for 2+ years. OEMs can buy them for embedded projects and…