Hello members,
This is a thread for collecting product development advice. In recent years, the streamer market has developed rapidly, with brands like Sonos, WiiM, Marantz, Bluesound, and Audiolab continuously releasing new products. However, these brands utilize different systems/apps, such as BluOS, DTS Play-Fi, and the WiiM app.
We would like to gather feedback from you: which of the mentioned systems/apps do you find the most user-friendly, or are there others that you would recommend?
Thank you.
Heos from Denon-Marantz is not very pleasant to use and it does not integrate the best platform in terms of file quality which is Qobuz.
Yamaha Musicast is solid but it is not gapless with Qobuz.
Sonos: we forget. They left hi-fi for easy listening (this being impressive for the size).
Blueos is easy to use, like the software used by Lumin.
I don't know Eversolo, but I gave a Wiim pro to my brother (sound engineer and very tech savvy) and he is very, very happy after a difficult start because the device refused to update. And he is very impressed by the quality of the little thing...
- In my opinion, a successful streamer from the user's point of view must allow him to directly integrate the URLs of the radio stations he listens to or that of the official website of the radio company (example BBC and Radio France), because Tunelm and Vtuner are not satisfactory in terms of sorting, impose advertising messages and have gaps...
- It must be multichannel on an HDMI output, because Dolby Atmos, 3.0, 4.0, 5.1 must be able to be read either from a streaming site or from files stored on a hard drive or a NAS: they will be decoded by the integrated AV.
- It must have two subwoofer outputs, one per channel and not the sum of the two. It must have a high pass low pass filter adjustable in frequency and slope, a subsonic filter, a phase and delay adjustment.
- It must have a parametric equalizer per channel and have the possibility of receiving a correction file following a measurement with external software in the form of a standardized file: there are several free and efficient measurement and correction solutions.
- It must have balanced outputs, especially on the subwoofer output
- If it allows you to read files stored on a NAS: you must pay attention to the number of files that it can manage without difficulty: Sonos stalls above 65,000 files. The same goes for the USB inputs.
- It must accept a small computer CD reader on a USB input to read CDs, especially not to rip them because automatic ripping does not give good results in terms of metadata.
- It must have USB, optical, coaxial, HDMI outputs to power a DAC or integrated AV... and analog stereo and subwoofer outputs for those who want to use it in stereo just connected to an amp and boxes.
