I’m using OneRPM at the moment. Other than the sometimes frustrating approval process, they have been ok. It’s free with the 30% cut. I don’t get enough streams to earn a significant amount so it made the most sense to me vs using a paid distributor.

And here I am struggling and fighting with my distributor ever time I upload a new instrumental album because they can’t confirm that it’s all original work.

I did some light reading and I think interface+TRS is looking to be the better option for the following reasons:

• The monitors’ DAC might be modest (they are supposed to be for music production after all), but a dedicated audio interface which is built specifically for it would still likely have a better DAC than the monitors’ built-in interface. The specialty of a speaker is the actual speaker components, not the built-in interface.
• Using balanced TRS cables means you eliminate any noise before it hits the actual speaker components. While USB-C won’t have any analog noise, any noise that gets involved after it leaves the USB cable and as it gets processed from the speaker DAC and into the speaker components has no protection.

Do you think that’s a fair assessment?

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Id use USB to take an extra link from the signal chain.

This is what I was thinking as well, but then the question is, do I trust the monitors more than my interface to accurately process the signal? But you’re right, I guess the only way is to compare and see if there’s any difference. The problem now is that the burden is on me to identify which one is more accurate, instead of deferring to an actual proven fact that one is better than the other. lol

Thanks for responding!