Looks seamless when you use it like that. As a "normal user" of a desktop OS, network audio always seems so custom, I guess how the OS and applications handle

Looks seamless when you use it like that. As a "normal user" of a desktop OS, network audio always seems so custom, I guess how the OS and applications handle audio is always going to be the bottle neck. I have no need for a DAW but I often want to stream audio from something to something else e.g. as you say monitor audio on some other device.