The advantage of the WiiM products (amp or not), among other things, is that they allow for EQ to be applied, so you can do simple room corrections. It also offers a proper sub-out to integrate a possible future subwoofer.
I don’t think the overall experience is very different. You can still have a box that you turn on, it just doesn’t contain any amps
This feature seems really useful. Room acoustics has a big effect. So ability to "adjust" it is nice.
You even recommended it over the new Rega Brio. So it's music quality should be really good.
I wonder, I could buy that Rotel Ra 1062 for the price of wiim. You would recommend wiim over that Rotel?
If you wouldn't recommend wiim, I would have looked at it as some "new age toy"
Also, I will check if it has phono, as I plan to buy turntable
It's a good question, that's been asked before, but is still without a good answer. There are lots of us still doing amp + passive speakers, we all have our own bespoke reasons, but a lot of us recognise that if we were starting again with what we now know we would go active.
Got it! Thank you very much!
For my main room Ill go with amplifier, because I will experiment, later Ill buy some cheaper amps for something like 100eur, and see what is the difference in the music output. To see how amp can "change" the sound in general. And to hear for myself what it means "dark", "neutral" "punchy" , difference between mids, highs on separate systems.
Honestly, I never knew that active speakers is so good, thank you for telling this! I will buy them to use in another place.
Really helpful!
In a world where amazing active speakers / monitors exist, why do passive speakers not only continue to exist but are almost 90% of all speakers sold ( i guess). What are the benefits of a passive speaker vs an active one?
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Wow, nice thread. A lot of reading awaits!
Thanks!
First things first. Room dimensions, how far from the speakers do you sit, what SPL do you like (use an SLP meter app on your phone), how much bass extension do you want at that SPL?
Thank you, really useful things!
Room is 24square meters. I will sit like 3 or 4 meters from it.
Spl, a new thing to me! I had to google what it is! I will check it, though need to read more to understand how to evaluate what Spl I like
For bass, it can be normal, "on time" bass, as much it suit classic rock music, metal. I do not think that I need bass which so strong that makes windows "vibrate". I don't know if this is what you were asking about bass, because I admit that I am a noob in this all music systems field
I didn't mention room, because I thought its not so important, as Im just looking for some decent budget amp, not some high end system.
Thank you for replies everyone! I really learned a new things from this thread! Im really grateful to you!