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I have no idea. I’ve used airplay to watch TV, but just started reading about it a week ago,
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Impressed with what they managed to do with a device like the WiiM Ultra.
I've been testing it for two days and everything is working as expected.
There are still a few things I haven't tested, like the Phono input, which I'm going to put together with a McIntosh 6800 and a Rega Planar 3 and see how this output behaves.
I'm anxiously awaiting the Roon certification.
Yesterday I formatted a 4TB HD and put in 4600 CDs that I've digitized in Flac. The WiiM read them correctly.
The only thing I noticed is that it joins the albums together, unlike the Roon, where I have the option of leaving them together or separate.
I think the App should have this option.
The USB loading part is fast, but it needs more advanced features. This isn't complicated to do and implement.
The LCD responds well. For a $329 device, it's a real bargain.
I don't need Airplay, but I know a lot of people use it. I have a Cambridge CXN V2 and I see that the loading is better on the WiiM on the external USB HD.
As for the quality between the two, I haven't done the test yet, I hope to do AB in the next few days.
I've been testing it for two days and everything is working as expected.
There are still a few things I haven't tested, like the Phono input, which I'm going to put together with a McIntosh 6800 and a Rega Planar 3 and see how this output behaves.
I'm anxiously awaiting the Roon certification.
Yesterday I formatted a 4TB HD and put in 4600 CDs that I've digitized in Flac. The WiiM read them correctly.
The only thing I noticed is that it joins the albums together, unlike the Roon, where I have the option of leaving them together or separate.
I think the App should have this option.
The USB loading part is fast, but it needs more advanced features. This isn't complicated to do and implement.
The LCD responds well. For a $329 device, it's a real bargain.
I don't need Airplay, but I know a lot of people use it. I have a Cambridge CXN V2 and I see that the loading is better on the WiiM on the external USB HD.
As for the quality between the two, I haven't done the test yet, I hope to do AB in the next few days.
Would be interested in hearing how the phono input test goes when you get around to doing that.
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Yes, but only if you feed the DAC from the optical or coax out, not the USB.
What about the HDMI arc input? My understanding was the USB was for external drives and was not an audio input.
Sorry to clarify I would not be using an external dac. I would use the WiiM Ultra as a single unit dac and preamp.
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When used like that, you can place a HPF on the main speaker outputs regardless of which input you use.
My understanding is that the prior Wiim devices are Airplay 2. Both Airplay 1 devices and Airplay 2 devices work with apps that are using either Airplay 1 or Airplay 2 (Apple currently allows the app designer to use whichever Airplay they want). The difference is how it handles that signal. If you send audio from an app using Airplay 2 to an Airplay 2 device, it is lossy 256k. If you send from an app that is Airplay 1, it is lossless (up to 24/48). I posted a chart on an earlier page from the Darko video on the subject.
I believe that Apple added Airplay 2 just to avoid signal loss that irritated many users. Airplay 2 simply doesn't warn that the quality is decreasing... this solves Apple's incompetence and in Dark's video I think he fails to do so. That's why I don't use Airplay, I want to stay away from it, this is for mass users...
Yes, they are dealing with systems all over the world with different routers. I think Apple needs to rethink their approach and use a "connect" style of playing music on different devices which sends the audio from the router to the playing device rather than the jump to the iOS device and back to the streamer. I doubt it is high on their list of things to do, if it is on the list at all. As it is, it's a convenience thing, at least with Apple Music. For apps that are using Airplay 1 (like Amazon), it can still be used for lossless transmission assuming the user has a more recent router. Personally, I use it for podcasts or YouTube (especially with the HomePod) since it works with every app.
It's at least a little more complicated than installing and configuring the Synology Media Server on your NAS, don't you think?
The WiiM forum is primarily a user community, not a WiiM support channel. I was under the impression that you got all the information you need to get going with your NAS. As usual, there are many ways to skin the cat. From my point of view just enabling Synology's media server is really the easiest thing to do, even if it's not perfect.
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I was toying with the idea of getting minidsp flex, but would need a streamer for that anyway and I do want a screen. This seems to have all of the features I would need including room EQ. It will replace a large early 90s Mac preamp so it'll also save me a lot of rack space, haha.
No measurements on it yet, so I'm hoping the ADC performance is good, because I listen to a lot of vinyl. Hopefully Amir tests it soon!
I have a purifi amp with XLR inputs. Can someone direct me to a good cable that will handle the RCA to XLR without creating any issues?
No measurements on it yet, so I'm hoping the ADC performance is good, because I listen to a lot of vinyl. Hopefully Amir tests it soon!
I have a purifi amp with XLR inputs. Can someone direct me to a good cable that will handle the RCA to XLR without creating any issues?
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I have been using the 'World's Best' brand of RCA to XLR cable to connect an AVR to a Buckeye Amp for six months - without any issues
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Looks like the exact one you have with the Mogami cables is sold out, but I would imagine the canare version will do the same thing. Thanks!
Has anyone been able to reproduce this? If this is still an issue? Or is it just a "feature"?
Routing TV audio through the Ultra’s HDMI input sounds great in theory, but the implementation needs some work. When you first hit play on a movie or TV show, it takes a few seconds for the Ultra to recognize that there’s signal coming in. Once it switches itself to the HDMI input, there’s another 10 to 15 seconds where the audio drops in and out. After that, things run perfectly, but this sequence repeats itself every time you pause your program long enough for the Ultra to think it should put itself back into standby mode.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/wiim-ultra-review/
Routing TV audio through the Ultra’s HDMI input sounds great in theory, but the implementation needs some work. When you first hit play on a movie or TV show, it takes a few seconds for the Ultra to recognize that there’s signal coming in. Once it switches itself to the HDMI input, there’s another 10 to 15 seconds where the audio drops in and out. After that, things run perfectly, but this sequence repeats itself every time you pause your program long enough for the Ultra to think it should put itself back into standby mode.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/wiim-ultra-review/
I cannot confirm this behavior, neither with the current firmware, nor with the two previous firmware versions.
Input sensing does take roughly 2 seconds, so much is true. The 10 to 15 seconds audio garble must have been specific to the combination of Ultra and TV and/or an even older firmware I don't remember testing with HDMI ARC.
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I think you have server software. I’ll be watching to see what gets recommended.
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