Recent content by jayh

Nice! Never drops below 4 ohms. Did you go with the folded horn/reflex case shown in the spec sheet?

The WiiM amp also looks very well designed from a heat dissipation perspective. The entire case is a huge chunk of aluminum nicely coupled to the power semiconductors. That thermal image shows no hot spots. The entire case is a massive heat sink.

Agreed, especially if you are driving "difficult" speakers. Mine gets pretty warm, but nowhere near too hot to touch driving Infinity 8 Kappas rather loudly. It does have plenty of oomph to drive them quite well, which was a pleasant surprise.

The amp never completely shuts down unless you pull the power plug. It goes into a standby mode where it consumes very little power. Also, it appears that setting the optical input for auto-sense also enables auto-sense on HDMI based on my experience as well as reading others' experiences here.

If anything, the sub should have a low-pass filter.

Someone here was looking for a silver one. I just got confirmation from Crutchfield that they have shipped a silver Wiim amp to me. It should arrive Monday. $299 and their website shows in stock, both silver and grey.

The one I ordered from Amazon on January 3 is showing as shipped today.

It's audible, so by definition has an effect on sound.

It mounts like a disk, has a file system like a disk, quacks like a disk (OK, maybe not the last), but to the OS, it's bulk storage, traditionally referred to as a disk. (See the "Save" icon on GUI applications if you've forgotten....)

You would think that it would respond to "Play some music" with something like, "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that" in a HAL 9000 voice, or some indication that it's offline beyond a changed color on the power light. Agreed that it shouldn't buffer the voice command indefinitely.

Amazon in the US has been showing unavailable and unknown when back for a long time. On January 3 it changed, showing delivery January 14-17 and accepted my order. Order still active, not showing as shipped. Now the site is back to unavailable - unknown.