Interesting. One other option is to use OrangePi for the server. OrangePi has ARC over HDMI and that would count as an input.

I did choose the WiSa surround sound system linked. I’ll cannibalize it later to make better speakers. I like it because it is audio at 24 bit/96kHz. It also just uses the HDMI ARC.

Radio signal(I’m a comm/nav aircraft mechanic, I had to know):

• 5 GHz spectrum
• Fixed latency of 2.6 ms

Straight up, that is awesome. I absolutely love it.

Hell yeah, it will. I need one of those bad boys.

Hah. I see your looking into ZFS caching. Highly recommend. I’m running Ubuntu 24.04 Root on ZFS RAID10. Twelve each data drives and one nvme cache drive. Gotta say it’s performing exceptionally. ZFS is a bit tricky, it requires an HBA not a RAID card. You may to to flash the raid card to get it working like I did. After that, I have put together a GitHub for the install on ZFS RAID 10, but you should easily be able to change it to RAIDz2. Fair warning, it wipes the drives entirely.

https://github.com/Reddimes/ubuntu-zfsraid10/