Trust the answers you got on the Roon forum.
Audiogon is, in the majority, anti-bits-are-bits, or at least those folks are the dominant voice here.
Pass-through Roon Endpoints
Hello All,
In my main system I use Roon for most playback; the endpoint is a Wiim Pro that outputs to an Yggdrasil+ DAC via coax. The Wiim does nothing to the data; it just passes it through directly. Roon’s ’signal path’ indicator reads Lossless.
Question: is there any advantage to using a fancier (i.e., pricier) streamer than the Wiim Pro for this purpose? It does nothing except pass the digital data through to the DAC, nor would a fancier one do anything beyond that.