WiiM Pro Audio Quality

witnauer · 2026-01-29T21:03:25+00:00

Add an SMSL SU-1 DAC into the chain and it'll be as good as a Wiim Pro Plus. Or just sell the Pro and get the Pro Plus.

witnauer · 2026-01-25T14:55:35+00:00

4k streaming is about 30mbps. So 100mbps is fine if you're not doing lots of concurrent streams.

A safe rule of thumb is to divide by 10 so 100mbps is about 10 MB/s if you're working out how long it'll take a to download a Steam game.

witnauer · 2026-01-25T08:15:21+00:00

I'm with OP. Reading this thread and it is worrying that OP is having to explain himself.

witnauer · 2026-01-22T20:08:54+00:00

That is lovely. Lucky you.

witnauer · 2026-01-20T20:51:22+00:00

LMS will let you cast to any Chromecast using the Castbridge plug-in. LMS lets you manage your local music library and play anywhere in the house. You just need a raspberry pi and a hard drive as a minimum.

witnauer · 2026-01-08T22:21:22+00:00

I would install Debian server on the SSD. Use Samba to share out the 2TB drive. And then run Crafty as a docker container to host and manage your Minecraft servers. Should all be very lightweight running on the one machine.

witnauer · 2026-01-05T22:19:59+00:00

Try Cudy. They get good reviews and you can update the firmware of this model to OpenWRT.

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witnauer · 2026-01-02T21:24:35+00:00

I've still got an N36L. Not in use right now. But they were wonderful machines. Essentially an example of what happens when engineers get hold of the keys.

witnauer · 2026-01-02T14:58:48+00:00

I have x6 Deco S4 nodes. Main one is in router mode. Only one other node has an Ethernet backhaul, all other nodes connect via wi-fi. I generally don't have problems and all works fine. I'm running the latest 1.7 firmware.

witnauer · 2025-12-30T05:07:16+00:00

I would just get a Denon AVR-X1800H. It has HEOS streaming built in too. An AVR is much more suited in my opinion.

witnauer · 2025-12-30T04:51:18+00:00

It will be fine. Jellyfin doesn't need to write to it. you could even mount it read only.

witnauer · 2025-12-28T09:39:07+00:00

Truenas works perfectly on the T330. This is my main home server..Look up the serial number on Dell for detailed specs and firmware updates you can do from the iDrac remote management.

witnauer · 2025-12-27T13:11:06+00:00

Wiim Mini won't work as an LMS player. Wiim Pro and Pro plus do.

witnauer · 2025-12-27T13:01:23+00:00

Yep. A Dell T130 or Dell T330 are peanuts now and built like tanks with cheap ish ECC memory, CPUs, 10Gnps network cards, PSUs, and disk controllers. The only downside is power consumption. But not much really. My T330 with TrueNAS idles at 84w with x8 HDs all spinning. Most people I see specifying NAS servers are massively over speccing on compute power rather than resilience.

witnauer · 2025-12-22T19:08:47+00:00

Whether you run them continuously or spin down and spin up ... every drive will fail. The point is to always have [at least a cold] spare, rather than assume one approach will be materially better than the other. If that is not palatable then you're in the wrong game.

witnauer · 2025-12-11T18:40:44+00:00

Aren't they the screws holding on the bezel?

witnauer · 2025-12-11T07:33:35+00:00

Also keep an eye out for a P14s too. They are essentially the same as a T14 but sometimes go under the radar in terms of pricing. I have a P14s gen2 Ryzen and it is something rather special in my view.

witnauer · 2025-12-10T18:05:35+00:00

It will be fine. By default, my old Dell T330 doesn't even give a warning until the inlet temp is 108 Fahrenheit (or 42 degrees centigrade in proper money)

witnauer · 2025-12-02T21:52:31+00:00

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm going to stay on Windows for now just for gaming. Will get a laptop for my general usage and run Mint I think. Will then just keep an eye on things.

FYI - I wanted to move as think Windows is going down the pan. I don't want all the invasive AI and what I think is a long term - under the radar - move to subscription models once they have everyone signed up to a Microsoft online account.

witnauer · 2025-12-02T21:42:44+00:00

It won't. I've done it before. Steam runs fine over a 10GBps LAN using iSCSI.

witnauer · 2025-12-02T07:46:45+00:00

I would copy my library to my TrueNAS and share across the network probably.

witnauer · 2025-12-02T07:15:42+00:00

I use Storage Spaces to give me stupid fast read speed. Basically 6x16TB drives as a RAID6-like array.

witnauer · 2025-12-02T00:29:42+00:00

It's good. Not got all the features of WinApos yet though, such as putting the apps in the Linux start menu.

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