What DAC do you use with Roon? Please list make and model (and price if you feel like adding it) [2021-04]

Rockna Wavelight
Holo May KTE (incoming)

would love to try the Rockna Wavedream or a Bartok one day…

have used
Holo Spring 2
Matrix Audio MQA X-Sabre Pro
Benchmark DAC3B

Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 over WiFi - without any audiophile cabling or power conditioning!

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Pretty much just the Chord Mojo/Poly these days. I don’t have a dedicated listening space so portability is very important to me.

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Chord Hugo TT2 ($5495 :flushed:)

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Ceiling speakers - Allo Revolution - $367 CDN + Shanti Power Supply - $215 CDN
Deck - Topping D50s - $239 CDN open box
Office - HifiBerry DAC2HD - $135 CDN
Main system - Moon 300D - $1299 CDN + U3 Stello USB interface - $495 CDN

  1. RME ADI 2 DAC FS (Priceless)
  2. Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 200 m ( $600)
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  1. Cambridge Audio CXN v2

  2. Focal Arche

  3. Zorloo Ztella

Nice. Would love to hear that dCS in my system!

Cary Audio DMS 700 via NUC/ROCK
AVM Ovation A 6.2 Master Edition
Focal Diablo Utopia III
Shunyata Denali
Shunyata power cables, interconnect, & speaker cables

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Office headphone setup:
Schiit Modi 2 into a JDS Labs Objective Amp.
Meze 99 Classics.

Current Main system:
Pi 4/Ropieee
Schiit Modius
Schiit Saga S preamp
Ps Audio Sprout temporary power amp. Crazy, but this sounds better than the Sprout by itself
Dynaudio Excite X14

Incoming - Vidar and Bifrost being delivered in the next week or so:
Pi4/Ropieee
Schiit Bifrost 2
Schiit Saga S
Schiit Vidar
Dynaudio Excite X14.

I’ll then add the Modius to an Asgard 2 that I picked up reasonable on eBay for the office. Or maybe the couch…

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Bryston BDA-3 fed by Lumin U1 mini.

Wife has an Allo Katana with their power supply.

My Gamesroom has a iFi Nano iDSD bl fed by Pi4b on an ChiFi LPS.

Am looking at Adding a BP-17 cubed or Rotel 1590 mkii for final piece of puzzle hence lurking in threads again.

Roon Core is AMD 3900 12core 24thread use volume levelling. Doesn’t raise a sweat pretty cool to watch all 24 threads in use building the library.

Set up 1: Matrix Audio X-Sabre Pro ($950 used)
Set up 2: SMSL SU-9 ($450 new)

Traded in for a Bryston BR-20 not Roon Ready yet so with my Lumin U1 Mini as streamer

Phenomenal, enveloping, spot on soundstage, deep and tall feel like I am in the studio. Best investment yet.

Pro-ject Stream Box S2 Ultra - Denafrips Iris DDC - Denafrips Ares 2. Beautiful…

NAD M10 streamer for main system setup.
Mytek Brooklyn as my bedside table headphone setup.
Chord Mojo as my portable headphone setup.

Very happy with them and all Roon ready. Happy to answer any questions. Do bear in mind I am still new at this so may not be as knowledgeable as others :slight_smile:

Replaced my Naim Atom with a Naim Atom Headphone Edition (2925 Euro). Sounds marvellous. Very happy with it.

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Hi Carl,

I use two DAC/AMP combos with roon: The Topping A90/D90SE and Schiit Audio MAGNI 3+/MODI 3+. Both work really well with roon, so far. Both are incredibly affordable vis-a-vis their build quality, design, sound quality, features, etc. The Topping stack is around $1,300 U.S. and the Schiit stack, if you buy the cables from them, and you should, is around $250 U.S.
Happy listening.
David

This configuration sounds quite good at the bedside: Synology DS116 NAS > Intel NUC7i7BNH Mini PC (Roon Core) > Chord 2Go/Hugo 2 (fixed line level) > McIntosh MHA200 Headphone Amp > Audeze LCD-X 2021 (Roon DSP Preset)

My integrated McIntosh MA12000 uses DA2 which I find quite adequate.

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Intel Nuc i3 Asana fanless with Roon Rock →
Trinnov Amethyst (EUR 10.500) →
CanEver ZeroUno tube DAC with NOS Mullard CV181 (EUR 7.800)

Fantastic!

Primary setup right now is the Denafrips IRIS (DDC) 450EUR into the Denafrips Ares II (DAC) 700EUR.
Amplifier is the Denon PMA-A110 3800EUR (which is also the secondary DAC).
Speakers are the Monitor Audio Gold 100 2030EUR.
Speaker, Coxial and RCA cables are Blue Jeans Cables. USB cables are SUPRA USB.

Looking to upgrade the DAC to either a Denafrips VENUS II or Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE and the speakers to Sonus Faber Sonetto II.