Replacing Sonos gear - Roon Core on existing Ubuntu server?

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

what options for low-cost eth-in, DAC+amp hardware to connect to existing loudspeakers in other rooms (these needn’t be “hi-fi”, just good enough) to replace failed Sonos ZP80s ?

$91.

Show off your stereo system, below $5000

Can’t resist. Here’s my higher-end system: Roon software - $10/month 2010 Core 2 Duo mac mini running Ubuntu 16.04 and Roon core - $200 (used) scavenged speakers from a discarded 1971 all-in-one Bell & Howell stereo - $0 Chromecast Audio on sale - $25 Fosi Audio 50 watt stereo amplifier, version 1.0 blue - $60 Amazon Basics 3.5 mm to dual RCA cable - $6 Oodles of digitized music - >$10,000 So $291 plus $10/month for Roon. The music is a sunk cost. And the bowl doesn’t count. [The sy…

Plus $15 for the Chromecast Ethernet adapter.