Are There Roon Ready I2S Streamers?

Agreed..but I'm also caught in a self imposed loop.  I have for years preferred vinyl, but I don't have a problem with spending 10K on a phono preamp, but I question how much better an external DAC will be vs the MA12000's DAC.  The external phono preamp is much better.  I agree that DACs should reclock USB inputs.  I'm looking at a well reviewed Chinese DAC so I also need to overcome the idea of buying Chinese.

we import servers the 432 evo servers from Belgium these are considered among the best sounding servers out there.

We had the usb vs i2s conversation with the designer.

He said that he tested both outputs and concluded that i2s was not better and was nearly imposable to support as there are different implementation’s depending on the Dacs manufacturer.

as per USB, we have clients using the Terminator and our 432 Evo servers and getting great sound.

in order to have great sound from USB you have to isolate the Data correctly:

In the case of our servers we have separate assemblies: the CPU is in its own board, the USB card. and Clock, are isolated physically and electrically from the CPU, a special laser sintered 3d printed shield electrical isolates and further shields the CPU, and absorbs radiated noise from the all-ready low noise quad core CPU,

Even Roon is isolated, we use 3 cores of the CPU independently,

one core runs the program,

one core runs other processes,

one core handles files allocation

it all comes down to design, building a world class Server is way more sophisticated and complex then what many people think

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

US. importers 432EVO music servers

The Antipodes K50 has i2s out

Nice equipment.

I'm using an air cooled 10th generation i7 NUC as a server.

Both the 432 and Innuos look to be well sorted, but I'm way over my budget for gear..so looking for value and intelligent compromise.

I think that USB streamers make the most sense from a marketing standpoint, so a better DAC, or reclocker will have to do.

If you like your iFi streamer and are looking for a DAC with a great USB input then look at the Holo vs the Denafrips.  If you don't hear an improvement over the Mc's internal DAC will be easy to turn over.