You're unlikely to hear much of a difference from the cleaner signal chain or the WiiM's improved DAC.
That sure seems easier than using the TV as a source. Could sound better but honestly, unlikely to be audible.
Exceptionally unlikely. The DAC isn't the best. It degrades the amp SINAD by about 6dB compared with the analogue input. But it is still good enough to be audibly transparent for pretty much everyone in real world listening with speakers.
It seems that for full DSP correction you also need the MA1 from Neumann at £279 or whatever your local currency is. At that price, it’s more than the Wiim so I’d expect it to be better! As these are near field monitors I guess you’d need to see if you really need room correction.
The Pro Plus makes not much sense here.
MA1 does phase correction in addition to amplitude, so it is technically better.
Definitely viable with the WiiM Pro.
Wiim's RoomFit has been (and probably still is) a moving target. How good it will be also depends on what hardware you're using. On Android there's a lot of variation between mic response from different manufacturers and models, so you really need a calibrated external mic like the UMIK-1 or Dayton models mentioned earlier if you want a good result. On iOS you can probably get away with the internal mic as Apple has worked on having a consistent mic response across all models, although a calibrate external mic should still offer some improvement. I can't comment on how well MA-1 performs, but it only runs on Windows which might be a limitation for some.
Meaningless unless:
I think that overall it only matters that you like what you are hearing. Some of the 24/192 songs could technically sound worse if they were just upscaled to 24/192 because then the quality would depend on the software that did the upscaling. In my experiences; Audio recorded in 24/192 naturally does sound clearer, but I don't have any professional recording studio to totally validate this. Just recordings with my phones and some decent Mics.
You can be listening different masters.
Do you ever listen to an upscaled version that is audible different from the original?
Not Muti but Alceo Galliera, poor Muti was too young at the time of this recording. Regarding the reissue of Callas' recordings at EMI, one learns some interesting things by reading the booklet that comes with the latest... The previous CD editions were all made from copies of the original tapes created back in the LP days and corrected accordingly... When they were digitized for the first CD edition, they were corrected to address the issues of these already corrected analog copies: but the corrections worsened many things... The second CD edition announced as being made with a 24/96 digitization was in fact a conversion of the 16/44.1 copy that had already been corrected, so it was corrected again... hence the disaster of the two CD editions known until the 3rd and final one... For which EMI went back to the original master tapes to digitize them in 24/192 and very minimally correct...
Yes, I quoted by memory, don't know why I worte Ricardo Mutti.
There have been some pretty poor resamplers in widely used software - see https://src.infinitewave.ca/ Ableton Live 7 for an example that may be audible from something well known. There are worse ones in there. It shouldn't happen today as the bad ones have generally cleared up their act in more recent versions, but it's conceivable that older upscaled tracks could have been done with one where it's audibly different.
