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

Pachanko Labs is not listed as Roon Ready or Roon tested.  Again, I would look closely into them.  Good luck with this.

My DAC is not Roon ready, so I bought a Roon Nucleus to use a the streamer and Roon Core. Works great. I believe you could do the same with Small Green Computer. 

I don't see that your device supports any streaming services. I don't use Roon can you access them via Roon if it doesn't support those services?

Roon supports Qobuz and Tidal.  The Pachanko server will serve as the Roon core and you can connect any DAC directly to the server and there is no necessity for the DAC to be Roon approved.  The Roon approved endpoint issue arises only if you wish to connect the Panchanko to your DAC by the local Ethernet or Wi-Fi network.  If you will be networking the Server and the endpoint then the endpoint needs to be Roon certified.  I use a Wolf Alpha 3SX server as my Roon core on my rack and connect my Gryphon DAC via USB.  My Wolf is hardwired to my switch and router and via Roon accesses Qobuz and my 24TB NAS for content.  I use an IPAD employing the “Roon Remote” to control my selections. 

Buy something worthy ,what’s your budget if in the $1k range the New Denafrips Aries-2  12 th anniversary model is a a great dac for the $$ monies .

their Pontus-2. Is much better-still  and their best value R2R dac value at just under $2k.