I've been waiting to see some measurements of this little device -- because I think I have an ideal use for it: the bedroom lull-me-to-sleep music player. I've been using an old Amazon Echo interface with Amazon HD Unlimited. Echo's speech recognition is nice in the kitchen, but the nice lady has much difficulty with artist and composer names. (Like a dive bartender, she knows Bo Diddley and Taylor Swift just fine but cannot find anyone named Jean Guillou or Arthur Jussen.)
The components of the bedroom system are intolerable cast-offs from the living room system -- a leftover Denon PMA-600NE that doesn't have enough power for the living room, two castoff, shrill Klipsch RP-600M "Voice Of The Pissed Monkey" speakers, a new little Elac sub, and an old Samsung BluRay machine with Toslink and remote. Luckily, the Denon has two optical inputs -- and a remote.
Frankly, I was just waiting for an objective review before pushing the buy button for the WiiM. I play the bedroom system player at quite a low volume to keep the pissed monkey (Klipsch) speakers somewhat at bay.
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Yes, I need to confess to the dilettantes here that I find Amazon HD Unlimited just fine, everywhere, thank you. For me, Roon, Tidal, and Qubuz are services that were SOTA five years ago, the same vintage as, say, Vine. There are so many bad recordings of good music extant that playing them through a fufu service seems like eating gruel with a silver spoon, pinkie out. But I digress...
The components of the bedroom system are intolerable cast-offs from the living room system -- a leftover Denon PMA-600NE that doesn't have enough power for the living room, two castoff, shrill Klipsch RP-600M "Voice Of The Pissed Monkey" speakers, a new little Elac sub, and an old Samsung BluRay machine with Toslink and remote. Luckily, the Denon has two optical inputs -- and a remote.
Frankly, I was just waiting for an objective review before pushing the buy button for the WiiM. I play the bedroom system player at quite a low volume to keep the pissed monkey (Klipsch) speakers somewhat at bay.
.....
Yes, I need to confess to the dilettantes here that I find Amazon HD Unlimited just fine, everywhere, thank you. For me, Roon, Tidal, and Qubuz are services that were SOTA five years ago, the same vintage as, say, Vine. There are so many bad recordings of good music extant that playing them through a fufu service seems like eating gruel with a silver spoon, pinkie out. But I digress...