Recent content by cooky560

The competition doesn't sleep but it seems even with the benefit of releasing later, they haven't beaten the WiiM

Does this actually matter? Even lossless is usually under 3000kb/s and even the worst quality connection can handle that in 2026.

It really is time for a "demo" mode for the apps, before purchase, even if it's just a youtube video. Companies making hardware a lot more expensive than the WiiM have far, far worse apps.

Welcome back to the sane side of hifi. Remember it's about listening to the music, not your equipment. One of my other hobbies outside of Audio is PC gaming, and I was obsessed with getting 144fps in 4k, I spent a lot of money on high end PC parts, to realise that it really doesn't matter, I'm...

How to enjoy modern hifi is simple: 1. Buy a wiim amp ultra 2. Buy some speakers you like the sound of 3. Connect device 1) to device 2) using suitable cabling 4. Turn on the wiim and enjoy the music.

There's a photo somewhere on this forum where the cables look like a roller coaster because of all of the lifters, I've never understood cable lifting. My cables are literally taped to the back of the cabinet and then they run under the carpet into the speakers, so far they are invisible and the...

I dunno, I just know going from $2 cables to $6 ofc cables made a difference, but the $40 cables didn't above that.

As long as the cables are shielded and OFC they will sound the same. Perhaps if you are running hundreds of feet of cable it might matter, but for most people the 6ft between the amp and their speaker, it really doesn't.

I agree with this, I have a collection of probably 10 vintage amps, people have joked on this very forum about my collection of Technics products. Most of them (apart from the vintage gear in my main system, which has remained constant for years) has been left in storage since I had the amp...

I wouldn't say no to a tape loop :) I have many old tapes and I can't play them in the wiim system at present.

In days gone by. VCRs used to have a “child lock” function by pressing some secret combo on the remote. It put a key icon on the display and then neither the remote nor face buttons worked until the combination was repeated. Unplugging the vcr for long enough (usually a couple of hours) would...

We are lucky that wiim is as customer focused as this. Not many big brands will have a forum where actual employees provide advice to developers directly. Negative positing not promote wiim to keep doing this. We need to be postive and engage so that the products are better for everyone invested.

I'm quite happy to create a youtube channel that covers these aspects of audio gear! I think ease of use is a huge part of people's engagements with the product.

Almost all technical progress is as a result of war. If we see more AI use in war, then yes it'll absolutely become part of regular life also.

Not to mention it's nice to not have all the setup my vintage gear wants, just start a playlist and it turns on, playlist finishes and it turns off.