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It supports Squeezelite and LMS has an ok Qobuz plugin too, but still nowhere close to the native Qobuz app, which is what I’d consider...

USB output, huh? Very unusual. Sadly not a good solution for Qobuz, but I don’t know if they are any good solutions for Qobuz, except...

That’s not what Golden Sound is complaining about.

The icing on the cake would be using PEQ on the WiiM device after taking room measurements.

Tell us more about the nice speakers and the sub, and how big the room is.

Was it ever?

The WiiM amp has a good built in DAC, an external DAC is a complication you don’t need. Keep it simple.

Sorry about your brother. I’d be tempted to ditch the DAC and just use the WiiM amp as the Spotify endpoint. If you must use the DAC yes...

You made me read it one more time and I stillI don’t see any mention of the OS mode that was active at the time measurements were taken...

I feel there isn’t a need to argue about this :)

Likely Amir tested it with the default OS mode (no details were given in the review) which doesn’t show the issues mentioned in the GS...

That I think is a firmware update related device. If audio works you can just ignore it, unless you actually need to update firmware of...

https://sjeng.org/ftp/SACD.pdf TL;DR impossible to dither, so intrinsecly distorted, even if at very low level.

Congrats Topping, through heroics you almost achieved performance of the tiny inexpensive Cirrus Logic chip hiding behind the Holo module.

You shouldn’t need drivers on W10/11.