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Will the display mirror what is shown in WiiM Home App or is it independent?

I bought that on release day

I’m not going to continue this but I think you will find that the original post was about whether you could get better SQ by using an external DAC and I was not the only one who said “why buy a WiiM amp then” where the all in one streamer, DAC and amp is its primary USP.

I still maintain that there are many more suitable amps available for use with an upstream external DAC or upstream streamer such as a PC or Mac.

There is a superb BBC Sounds plugin available for LMS which gives you 320kbps streams and (almost) everything you can get in the official BBC app. The Pro, Pro Plus, and Amp (and presumably Ultra) all contain built in Squeezelite players for LMS.

I like that approach but it could be done with just one server in play and the "daily background station" could include stuff from certain streaming services if you wished. I do exactly the same but using only LMS and a WiiM Mini as my office player with a couple of Plugins that create a...

I apologise but I have to say the WiiM user base is a crazy mixture of complete digital audio novices and snake oil audiophiles who think they know and can measure everything. Working out which is which isn’t easy. Because of the former perhaps WiiM should create some guides to digital audio...

@Brantome deleted my comment

You deleted my comment. I posted what I did because no matter what you post in reply someone asking such a question has to to understand the technology before they comprehend a reply even if it’s 100% correct.

This thread is bizarre. By its very nature the WiiM Amp is not intended for use with an external DAC either upstream or downstream. Downstream isn’t even possible as the Amp has no output apart from speakers. If you are absolutely insistent on using a DAC upstream then please explain - why buy...

Why would they do that when MQA is effectively dead (good riddance)!?

Why is the USD / GBP exchange rate used in the example 1:1 ? At current rates USD 399 = only £320. We Brits always get penalised by this.

About 2 mins into Concierto de Aranjuez on Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain a Xylophone is clearly heard in the left channel which returns at various other points during the track. How clearly you can hear it when it returns is, for me, a good indicator of the quality of your equipment.

Some people seem to forget there is an art to rearing the snakes that are chosen for slaughter to obtain the purest form of snake oil. Not all snake oil is suitable for HiFi use.