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RE: How to get my computer out of my audio chain?

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In Reply to: RE: How to get my computer out of my audio chain? posted by ltman on October 28, 2023 at 20:05:25

A Mac Mini M2 uses 7w at idle and a max of 50w. It is blazing fast and probably would run circles around your gaming computer. It sounds like your 7tb drive is directly mounted in your computer, in which case you could remove it and put it into an external thunderbolt enclosure.
On the mini you could run Audirvana. I don't know how long it would take to index your drive, and how frequently it would need to be. But here's another option, subscribe to Qobuz and see how often you go back to your own collection instead of just playing the Qobuz copy via Audirvana. And once on Qobuz you'll see all kinds of music you don't have that you always wanted, plus 50-100 new releases every Friday. All this for the price of a single CD per month.
Audirvana will see the Wiim DLNA and connect to it without problem.

Edits: 10/30/23

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RE:Mac Mini M2 - ltman 13:35:06 10/31/23 (5)
I probably should have gotten a mac mini for audio years ago, but I am a retired programmer and had PC tunnel vision...
- RE:Mac Mini M2 - AbeCollins 11:00:01 11/01/23 (4)
  You can get small inexpensive Intel NUC if you prefer running other than macOS.
  - RE:Mac Mini M2 - ltman 16:59:10 11/01/23 (3)
    yep, should have done that years ago. Tunnel vision.
    - RE:Mac Mini M2 - JTodd 20:10:36 11/01/23 (2)
      FYI - ASUS is now the official maker of NUCs. Also, lots of inexpensive Chinese mini-pc's available as well. I am running a Beelink SER5 Mini 5 - AMD RYZEN 7 32 GB - pulls about 8 watts at idle - and 50 watts at full load of the 8 cores.
      Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take Intel NUC Systems (Open in New Window)
      - RE:Mac Mini M2 - AbeCollins 07:29:13 11/02/23 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE:Mac Mini M2 posted by JTodd on November 01, 2023 at 20:10:36
        
        I had no idea. Nice to know:
        JULY 18, 2023
        "What's New: Today, Intel announced it has agreed to a term sheet with ASUS, a global technology solution provider, for an agreement to manufacture, sell and support the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) 10th to 13th generations systems product line, and to develop future NUC systems designs."
        
        Edits: 11/02/23
      - RE:Mac Mini M2 - ltman 21:12:39 11/01/23 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE:Mac Mini M2 posted by JTodd on November 01, 2023 at 20:10:36
        
        For sure my dinosaur PC has to go. It will be tablets or NUCS in my computing future.
        
        Anyway I have wanted multi-room audio for years so at this point I am going with probably three WIIM units.
        
        I have two WIIM units up and running for multiroom this week - feeding external dacs - and I am very happy with the sound and the overall WIIM multiroom listening experience - both in configuration and use.
        
        And I have plenty of dacs, speaker pairs and amps to run in as many rooms as I would want, if I am willing to buy more wiim minis.

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