Can you clarify, if you're happy with your D&D active speakers acting as a Roon endpoint then is your sole interest in the A8 /sole intended use case to get the digital audio out of your TV into the AES/EBU input of your speakers, via the A8's HDMI ARC input? ie. acting effectively as a pure DDC rather than a streamer in that scenario. Or is there some other part of the A8's streaming functionality you might use alongside Roon direct to your D&Ds as endpoints?Those aren't streamers and don't have HDMI input, let alone eArc. Quite familiar with ADIs, owned one a few years ago. The solution has to be civilian (aka wife) friendly, I'm quite content with D&Ds being a Roon endpoint.
As if the former there are some dedicated DDCs I can suggest that might accomplish this at lower cost and/or potentially higher quality than the multifunction A8.
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