Please check my configuration!

no prob !

to elaborate a little bit on the “Tidal-from-the-core” thing, and also why “wired” is recommended, the library management side of Roon actually isn’t the most interesting feature, as far as playback is concerned: there’s a full-blown DSP engine in there.

What this means is that you can do cool stuff like room correction or enhancing the sound of headphones, but it’s also how more simple stuff, like volume control, often happens.

It also implies that there’s quite a high demand on the connection between the core and the endpoint: let’s say you take an 320kbps .mp3, and lower the volume a little bit, or do convolution to help with how your room sounds, and upsample it to DSD128 or 24/192, the volume of data that’s going to hit your endpoint isn’t a 320kbps .mp3 anymore, it’s full-blooded DSD128 or 24/192 or whatever the precision of Roon’s DSP can muster, so something like 30 times more (if my math’s correct, 320kbps vs 9.2Mbps and 11.2Mbps, anyway, much more) data being sent than was in your original file (or Tidal’s 320kbps non-hifi tier, and before you ask, core=>endpoint can easily be an order of magnitude more data than Tidal HiFi as well).