Roon DAC? help please....took a chance on Pachanko Labs - know nothing about Roon

yes I want to get a better dac

can I use any dac ? 

you can use any dac

You can't quite use any DAC.  I found this out the hard way.  The DAC needs to be new enough to be driverless.  I have an old W4S DAC-2 that was flagship and Stereophile recommended when it was new.  Still not bad sounding but Roon won't see it since needs driver files installed on the streamer (back then it was a computer).  

Otherwise, Roon should be fine with any DAC.  It may not recognize some lesser known DACs and will call them something likely associated with their chipset.

Jerry

BTW, the node isn't a bad streamer if you add an external DAC.  Take your time upgrading it.

thanks you

im going to get a roon tested dac

this will sound stupid as Ive already bough this thing,

but can anybody please confirm if I need any other hardware other than the constellation mini and dac?

i'm presuming i just connect the constellation mini to ethernet  then USB to DAC (and amp/preamp)

the roon stuff has me confused but wanted to try it and got a great deal on the pachanko unit which the seller told me was a huge upgrade from my bluesound even as just a pure streamer