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Before doing the above please do some research. Not all SSD's are the same. There are many different controllers on the market and they respond differently to things like this. Sandforce controllers or Apple provided SSD's will likely not need this. Do the research before typing in a terminal command that you know nothing about.

Interesting. I just put those Polks in the closet for these Pioneers. I think they are more refined. I much prefer the sound. For $100 pr. they deserve every bit of the praise they receive.

I just picked up a pair of the Pioneers today. They have only been in use for about 2 hours but I have to say... I can't imagine anything coming even close to these in this price range. I was skeptical but WOW. The only real issue is the ugly factor. They aren't that great to look at. The sound makes up for it.

If it helps, I have been using UnRaid for a couple of years now. It is perfect for my use case but maybe not for everyone. Here is why I use it and have found no other substitute. 1. DIY - I built my own box which means I get to chose what goes in it. 2. Expandable - I currently run 24TB of protected storage. It can support up to 24 disks at 4TB each with one being the parity drive. 3. Web Interface management for basic tasks. 4. App plugins - I run Sab, Sickbeard, Plex, and other Linux apps. Most are very easy to install but this is Linux and it can get tricky at times. 5. It's rock solid even in Beta. If you stick to the recommended hardware all is good. 6. Samba, AFP, NFS support. So, for music (and movies for that matter) All you do is set up a share and map it to your windows install. It acts like a local drive to all of your applications and functions great over gigabit networks. It also does DLNA and if anything is not baked in you can install any Linux programs you need. The thing that has been great is the protected portion of the setup. I have had a couple of drives go bad ( I run this 24/7) and it is a simple matter of dropping in a new drive and letting it re-image the data. It's not true back up but it's close. I could say a lot more but in general I haven't found anything close to UnRaid for what I need. I also like Vortexbox and have one running currently. It just doesn't do everything I need.

This isn't new info but setting the Raspberry Pi to act as a DLNA renderer is fairly simple. I followed this guide. Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA | Stephen C Phillips I am at the very beginning of this process but got it to show up as a player in Jriver right away. I plan to try a USB DAC and see what the quality is like. If that works out, and I figure out how to set up zones in MC, this has tons of potential. A pair of powered M-Audio computer speakers sound about as good as a Sonos speaker and the total price would be about half of a Play 3. While not high end it would still make an interesting distributed audio solution.