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WiiM Vibelink Amp Review
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No. It's a pure power amp with gain control and additional digital inputs.
No DSP, no tone controls, no balance control, no subwoofer output, no phono pre-amp, no remote, no network connection, no app support, no VU meters, no presets, no firmware updates, no selectable filters, no nonsense.
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of course the voltage is low. What is your point in saying that?
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Updated the review with $299 pricing.
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No USB is crazy, this would be the perfect desktop amp otherwise, I'd buy it in a shot!
And a remote to control the volume.
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Seriously—the addition of a remote would have MASSIVELY improved usability of the volume control. The only situation that makes sense for leaving the remote out is a headphone amp or portable player.
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It does. Period.
There's never been an official spec stating that optical fiber connections could not support a sampling rate of 192 kHz. But the when Toshiba introduced this standard, their original implementation did not support higher sampling rates (although the data send is basically just an optical version of S/PDIF).
Consequently, some implementations are limited to 96 kHz to this day. Others are not. WiiM is not.
I would think the opposite.
I would rather use the Ultra as the master volume with a remote control rather than having to walk across the room to change the volume on the Vibelink
I get it, but the question is if the digital volume affects the sound more than the potentionmeter in the manual volume knob in the Vibelink....
I guess a comparison is needed.
I have some hi res music in my Roon server.
Last night I ordered a Wiim Ultra and a Wiim Vibelink.... I'll let you know my conclusion.
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Wiim is unafraid, I'll give them that, lots of modular options in their lineup. The Wiim Pro has extended life of my Marantz HD-AMP1 several years...only reason I'm looking at Ultra is for bass management and VU meters but for $299 for the amp, its kind of silly not to
And to use its bass management the volume must be controlled by the Ultra, of course.
If you set a fixed volume on the Ultra and change it in the Vibelink Amp, the subwoofer level will stay fixed, too. You don't want that.
Setting the volume pot on the Vibelink Amp to max. bypasses it as much as is possible without a separate bypass switch. WiiM's digital volume control uses an 8 but table (offering 256 volume steps) and the calculation is done in 32 bit. Stay away from the lowest few percentage points and there won't be any negative influence on sound.
Having said that, each form of volume control (no matter if it's analog or digital) gets the signal closer to the noise floor. Thats unavoidable. As a result there's no such thing as "lossless" volume control.
And to use its bass management the volume must be controlled by the Ultra, of course.
If you set a fixed volume on the Ultra and change it in the Vibelink Amp, the subwoofer level will stay fixed, too. You don't want that.
Setting the volume pot on the Vibelink Amp to max. bypasses it as much as is possible without a separate bypass switch. WiiM's digital volume control uses an 8 but table (offering 256 volume steps) and the calculation is done in 32 bit. Stay away from the lowest few percentage points and there won't be any negative influence on sound.
Having said that, each form of volume control (no matter if it's analog or digital) gets the signal closer to the noise floor. Thats unavoidable. As a result there's no such thing as "lossless" volume control.
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