If you decide to keep roon, I recommend you to use a NUC with rock kit installed that will be your streaming server. Plus you can still your NAS if you want. NUC and dac connected to Ethernet wire separately. No connection between the two and no usb involved. I had this configuration with success for a while.
Streamer question
Please pardon my ignorance, but I've researched and I'm not finding what I'm looking for.
I currently house my music library in this configuration: NAS > PC > USB > DAC > RCA > Integrated amp. I use Roon as my primary and the Roon core is on an SSD plugged into the NAS. I run Tidal via Roon.
I'm looking for a streaming device to eliminate the USB cable, but that allows me to stream from my personal library (using Roon) as well as Tidal (while not using Roon).
Roon is flaky for me and sometimes I find it's not worth the hassle of dealing with, so I'd like to option to simplify things and stream directly from Tidal.
Everything I see is for streaming from a service (Roon/Quboz), but I'm not finding much on streaming my own personal library as well.
Hope this makes sense. Any help appreciated!