Nice and simple

[Hifi_swlon]

Only wishing for AIR to work properly so I can untether the laptop!

If you go down the HQPlayer route you'd have the option of using a RPi or similar as an 'NAA' which is the HQ player equivalent of Air.

Or hopefully imminently Roon's own 'RoonSpeakers' which the RPi has always been discussed as being supported at release.

Very few people have heard the roon system, but the NAA has lots of loyal followers so I assume it works well.

Either way, you'll be able to untether at low cost very soon.

Ok, so they're both still connected by USB which isn't exactly Air, but using something simple like a pi should in theory reduce all the computer 'noise' a traditional USB connection.

Not ideal if you intended to stream direct, but at least they might actually work.

For the life of me I've not been able to discern any SQ improvement using HQPlayer, with Devialet so far but now it works with Roon ill probably do a bit more testing...