$99 Roon Ready from FiiO - the SR11

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There are quite a few devices that is for sure. We don’t know if they are good, yet.
I like that they produce digital devices (handling digital signals is much easier than converting them to analog), as the streaming and DA conversion parts must be separated.

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That is true. In case any music streaming device delivers a perfect stream. Unfortunately, they do not.

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Really wish this had.12v trigger, but for £79.99 its still an absolute bargain, if it ever becomes available in the UK. Several Fiio retailers have it on PreOrder.

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Works well as a Roon end-point. Roon identifies it as a FiiO M17 but all streams and formats I throw at it work well. Maybe when this becomes a RoonReady device, Roon will properly identify it? The SR11 sends the digital audio out via the optical toslink to my DAC. Sounds great - it shouldn’t change the sound - just pass the digital stream on to the DAC. Easy setup. My unit came with FW v193.

I gave it 4 stars for its junky AMPAK IOT wifi client chip. It connects to wifi 5gz or 2.4gz just fine. However if you reboot your wifi router, it will not reconnect without recycling the power. If your wifi router any kind of mesh, roaming, or band-steering enabled that tries to move the SR11 to a better antennal, it will disconnect and never reconnect until you power cycle the unit. If your router has a WPA group re-key interval set (most do this every hour for security reasons), the SR11 will drop off wifi and never reconnect until you power cycle. To get a stabile wifi connection, you have to disable WPA group-rekeying, turn off all 802.11r,v,k features, and pin the SR11 to one antenna on your router/mesh environment.

These are all symptoms of a cheap wifi IOT implementation similar to the M17 (as others have reported on the Roon forum). I emailed FiiO support but no response. I have not tried the hardwired ethernet connection. This would be a 5-star product if newer firmware could fix the wifi implementation.

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Never had issues with my M11 at all with it on wifi.

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Received firmware v226 from FiiO for the SR11 and it seems to have fixed the wifi issues:

  1. WPA group rekey works
  2. wifi roaming with 802.11r / v / k works
  3. the sr11 will now automatically re-connect to wifi after a wifi access point reboot

I bought a 2nd SR11 because it works so well as a Roon end-point.

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Hmmm…I don’t see that download for the SR11 on the Fiio website. Do you have an official link? SR11 doesn’t auto-update itself as far as I can tell.

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Here is the link to the zip file. put this on a flash drive.

https://fiio-firmware.fiio.net/SR11/SR11_update_20240924_v2.2.6.zip

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I just ordered one of these to try out.

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I don’t see this listed on their website. Where did this link come from?

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All set up took two goes for it to connect to my wireless network but all good now it is. Not sure what point the remote is as it can’t pause or play content. It’s just to adjust some of the basic menu items or adjust its digital volume which I won’t ever be doing.

As an endpoint though it does what it says on the tin.

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Is there any reason to get one of these to replace an RPi4 that works well?

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Have you used pbphoto’s firmware update?

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I can’t think of any good reasons. :grin:

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Yes it works better in my setup for my tastes and I can have the pi as a remote and now playing screen where I want as it not tied to the Hifi via USB. It also looks nicer.

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Yep first thing I did was update.

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It’s all about finding the right use case and hopefully being able to re-use old gear elsewhere

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Well it’s back where it used to be now as a pure remote. It was only ever a stop gap. I swear it sounds better​:wink: subjectively of course. Just knowing it’s device for audio and not a general purpose pc helps in that delusion. :kissing_heart:.

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Don’t we always believe that :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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If using this away from home connected by WIFI to a cellular network, such as iPad hotspot, is it easy to connect this device to a new network if you don’t know the ip address of this device. I know you can use Fing to find it, but I don’t have or want a paid subscription to Fing and I have a hard time using it.

One of the issues I have with using my RPi4 is, I have it set to connect to my iPad Mini 6 hotspot. If I want to change that to my iPad Gen 10 or iPhone, I have to go into the RoPieee program and change the network name.