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Totally agree, but there's always the voice in the crowd / household looking for the "warmth" of vinyl / old school audio. At least with > redbook, I can say, "Hey, babe... unless you want to flip records, this is "better" than CDs..."
….there is also Auralic with their Lightning DS (LDS) house ecosystem. Decent [rather expensive] DACs and streamers that some/many adore…. On the flip-side, I do not think Auralic has the critical mass to develop and maintain the [LDS] software for true state-of-the-art smart-home control and integration. But look at it.
I don't think most of it whose MusicCast related, the 30 sec is provider limit without paying them at least I didn't had much problems and when I did it whose related to WiFi antenna. It is a bit slow but it works.
Anyway, sounds like roon should be at your core, with varying degrees of endpoint/amp/speaker quality at your remotes, where SQ is apparently as important as it is at your main rig MLP. But, that probably means wired endpoints, and no voice control.