Transmit a local source over Wi-Fi from optical input?

[QuadStreamer]

I am totally new to networking audio, and I greatly appreciate any advice on what I hope to be a simple project. I seek to stream my vinyl from the living room to the home theater in the basement losslessly for the purpose of running the live feed through an Involve Audio Surround Master V3 which accepts toslink. The output of my phono preamp is balanced, so I am looking not to use the analog input on the transmitter. I am looking for 48k/24b end to end without resampling or additional AD-DA conversions.

To this end, I just ordered a Wiim Pro for a single purpose: to transmit over Wi-Fi a digital audio feed from a local source (an analog to digital converter) at 48k/24b using the optical in on the Wiim Pro. I am hoping to use an Arylic LP10 or possibly an old Panasonic Blu-ray player as the reciever. Airplay 2 is fine if it all can stay bit-perfect, otherwise some other internet protocol? Latency is not a concern. Is the Wiim Pro designed to do this?

Signal flow: Balanced Phono preamp > analog in to Behringer Ultramatch Pro ADC > toslink in to Wiim Pro > Airplay2 or other Wi-Fi protocol to Arylic LP10 network reciever (or network playing blu ray player) > toslink in to Surround Master V3 decoder > analog out to stereo

 

[hgo58]

I would get an additional WiiM Mini device.

Phono preamp -> WiiM Pro line in (optical in) -> LinkPlay WiFi connection -> WiiM Mini line out (optical out) -> stereo

Edit: Update as commented in #3

 

[Burnside]

I would get two WiiM Mini devices.

Phono preamp -> WiiM Mini (A) line in (optical in) -> LinkPlay WiFi connection -> WiiM Mini (B) line out (optical out) -> stereo

As you already have a WiiM Pro, that can replace one of the Mini devices.

Mini doesn’t have an optical in, just aux. WiiM pro does however.

 

[QuadStreamer]

Pro > mini should work, thanks! Somehow I missed that mini didn’t resample the output. I already have an unopened Arylic LP10 though. Is this just as good or would I be asking for trouble?

 

[Burnside]

Given that arylic steamers are also based on Linkplay modules like WiiM are, you may be able to link to it from the Pro in the WiiM home app and save yourself having to buy a mini. In the WiiM home app, choose the Pro that the source is connected to, then click the link icon against its name and finally select the Arylic.

 

[QuadStreamer]

Given that arylic steamers are also based on Linkplay modules like WiiM are, you may be able to link to it from the Pro in the WiiM home app and save yourself having to buy a mini. In the WiiM home app, choose the Pro that the source is connected to, then click the link icon against its name and finally select the Arylic.

Thanks. I think I will try this first. All things equal, the LP10 has the advantage with Ethernet connectivity.