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Joined Feb 2, Messages 2 Likes 3. The other output of the splitter goes into an optical input of my AV receiver. From my understanding the optical out should now send the original music signal to the DAC without having any influence on the music quality.

Is there any chance that a very much more expensive streamer can have any advantage in audio quality? Or only snakeoil? Just speaking about digital out, not the DAC inside the streamer. Cheers Mario. Joined Dec 29, Messages 59 Likes Joined Dec 3, Messages 90 Likes Globuli said:. Click to expand Joined Oct 5, Messages 55 Likes With Qobuz and my Plex server works great.

And no clicks when changing frequencies. Excellent transport. Joined Dec 6, Messages 1, Likes 1, It all depends on how “lossless” and “bit-perfect” Wiim Mini really is. I am still skeptical until the device is tested properly. All of LinkPlay’s previous devices have measured poorly by amirm. This one uses a newer LinkPlay module than those devices Songbird, KEiiD, Audioengine, many others , which, hopefully, provides cleaner output, particularly via the optical out.

Someone send one to amirm to test Joined Feb 18, Messages 42 Likes Amir has one on his front porch or garage door. He’s going to be reviewing it any day!!!!

The device is very impressive it does all that Sonos devices can in terms of streaming and has optical out to boot. This is what Sonos should have done in the first place.

That would have helped the DIY community plenty. Sonos speakers are good but they need to realize that they are not a speaker company or a DAC company. Joined Nov 7, Messages 12 Likes Has anyone tried it?

That probably seals the deal for me. Unless it tests out poorly. Jmudrick Addicted to Fun and Learning. Joined Oct 7, Messages Likes I’ve been using the device for awhile. No issues with sound quality but a couple of real usability issues with the Home app: there is no way to queue multiple Qobuz albums unless you go to the trouble of creating a playlist in advance of the listening session. Even worse, DLNA file playback requires you queue one track at a time. Notwithstanding, it’s become my go-to for Qobuz playback as at least the gapless playback works more reliably than Audirvana for me.

I just received my Wiim streamer, and it is a nice little unit. Easy to set up. I am using optical out to Schiit Modi. Does this imply that So long as it has stable clocks and a decent UI, it should work fine.

Seems good value if you already have a DAC, amp etc. Can it use a DLNA source? Jmudrick said:. See comment above. Yes but enqueue one track at a time with my server software Bubbleupnp, Emby. FuzzTone Member. Joined Mar 7, Messages 39 Likes 7. Joined Oct 16, Messages 72 Likes Is it acceptable?

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Ghost protocol. It’s what audio nutters invoke whenever a component begins to show first signs of failure. Before it gives up the ghost entirely, we shop for a replacement. If a repair isn’t audirvana gapless playback free the picture, we want to duplicate all of its functionality. If we loved audirvana gapless playback free original, we might replace it with the most current version. If sonics or features refresh too, even better.

For me, Soundaware’s trusty but aged DPro had begun to distort with clicks and hiss between tracks. Overwriting its firmware with itself didn’t make a dent. Then it misbehaved with Denafrips’ Aether clock by emitting RF. That reclocks the transport via two long clock cables. The transport sits next to my listening chair.

Now I see its smaller display audirvana gapless playback free squinting. An IR remote quickly navigates the card’s file folders. Without router connection, this older unit simply can’t display cover art. That’s probably my only nit. I already have an smsl transport on the same room’s headfi. I thus gravitated to ordering a second SD9 from France’s Audiophonics. Ghosting that protocol with more window shopping, I audirvana gapless playback free gave the nod to the Dp5; for its bigger display.

But convenience has its own value. I’d lose Soundaware’s clock-sync option. Given the company’s absentee representation in Europe, I simply audirvana gapless playback free dealing with smsl’s French importer. Should I need eventual service, with Audiophonics I won’t kayak up one of the Amazon’s Chinese tributaries without a paddle. For a quick description of the Dp5, I refer you to this Hans Beekhuyzen video.

I fill you in on interface action. Used as a pure file transport sans network, card-surfing functionality represenst the lion’s share of my ownership. Here is the Dp5 manual. While the rest of the world embraces ever more WiFi for ever more connectivity like refrigerators ordering food from your local grocer’s, our household’s Audirvana gapless playback free allergy and disdain of surveillance and data mining sticks to hardwired digital.

Our upstairs is a Ссылка на страницу zone or else very long Ethernet cables would run up the staircase and down a 10m-long corridor. So Audirvana gapless playback free transports remain my favorite low-cost alternative to CD spinners. They have no moving parts. SD cards conveniently travel from system to system.

They hold more music than I need. They are easily repopulated with a quick drag ‘n’ drop off the local downstairs file audirvana gapless playback free. I much prefer owning music than cloud streaming. In payment for как сообщается здесь offline happiness, I gladly give up the scroll привожу ссылку tap creature audirvana gapless playback free of tablet remotes.

We each have our own. I love SD transports yet their pickings are slim. It’s why I cover this acquisition. Today’s writeup is for those few remaining fellow dinosaurs who still roam the hifi steppes off the omnipresent www. On a few scores, only meow. Anything other than ‘never off’ backlighting dims the display at the programmed interval but won’t relight with a new remote command.

It takes a new power cycle to change the setting back to always on to see anything. Now even max brightness won’t burn out any pixels. Sticklers will /43531.txt in the mud seeing them replaced by Chinese glyphs.

Briefly holding its center brings up a 4-quadrant window. The lower right has all the mode options. Showing full-width square album art on a rectangular display means that parts of a cover won’t render.

Depending on its layout, that could cough castrate the title. However, read-in of close to 1′ tracks occurs quickly and the display confirms its progress. Even in 2-of-5 brightness during a shiny summer day, the display is well visible from a meter away and shows all expected meta data including file type, sample rate and bit depth. For headfi or line-out use, volume displays numerically in the screen’s top left corner.

HP next to it obviously stands not for Harry Potter or Pearson but headphones. There’s gapless and ‘endless’ list play works itself sequentially down audirvana gapless playback free entire SD card’s folder tree.

It’s all rather self-explanatory if not as 21 st -century slick as tap ‘n’ scroll touch screens. New music read-in is done manually or automated with each power-down. My display shows it in the upper right-hand corner with the LAN symbol crossed out, those for Bluetooth and WiFi removed entirely. What other folks would view as crippling or dumbing down the Dp5, I call fully optimizing it. In short, another happy buy in casa 6moons that—far more than less—interfaces as expected to fill the slot left by the DPro’s demise.

I spent less audirvana gapless playback free but gained partial cover art. I call that a fair trade.

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Most new classical recordings now flow from independent labels of which many are available in hi-res FLAC on Qobuz.