Wiim Pro Plus with a CD transport

[Brian Hall]

I hooked up an old Sony blu-ray player to the optical input on my Wiim Pro Plus streamer. The Wiim Home app under sources has CD Player (optical). Selected that and now I'm playing a music CD using the old blu-ray player as a transport using the DAC in the Wiim. It sounds awesome. You don't need an expensive DAC or crazy priced CD transport to get great sound.

 

[SonicSleuth]

Will give this a go

 

[Doublej]

Same here. Unfortunately, my Sony player recognizes only about half of the cds I have. My second problem is that I can't find a new DVD or Blu-Ray with optical output. The few players that have a digital output are of the coaxial form.

 

[antcollinet]

The few players that have a digital output are of the coaxial form.

You can get relatively inexpensive Coax to optical converters.

 

[Doublej]

I scored a minty Panasonic Blu-ray player with an optical output for a fair price. Much simpler than adding another box and transformer into the setup.

 

[Hagan66]

I hooked up an old Sony blu-ray player to the optical input on my Wiim Pro Plus streamer. The Wiim Home app under sources has CD Player (optical). Selected that and now I'm playing a music CD using the old blu-ray player as a transport using the DAC in the Wiim. It sounds awesome. You don't need an expensive DAC or crazy priced CD transport to get great sound.

CORRECT!!!

 

[CT Man]

I miss the displays that have been stripped from current blu-ray players when using them for CDs. Manufacturers give no thought to flexible track selection using the TV display, plus I don't want my TV on for that.

 

[Joe Smith]

The older Sony DVP-NS300 CD/DVD player works pretty well for me in this regard. I currently use mine via Toslink to my JDS Atom+ DAC, switchable from computer USB via thr front button. This lets me easily toggle my workroom system between streaming from the desktop to playing a CD, using the good DAC in the Atom. The Sony unit is cheap and still readily available on the used market, and has decent from panel buttons, so I don't need a remote to play either CDs or the few DVD-Audio disks I have. I look for DVD units with optical out when I am thrifting, but you don't see them that often, the coax out is far more prevalent.