Recent content by jmudrick

Sure it works.

You also risk severe distortion if your amp can't handle the power requirements.

Hmm I don't think you understand what calibration files do. They're not going to change the effective range of a cheap mic not designed as a measurement tool.

Sure. I have 2 CD players. But when I play a physical CD I play a physical CD. Not files. When I do that I don't need phone or computer. Old school.

Why not just play flac files if you don't want to play a CD as the ancient ones did. Seems a parlor trick of limited utility to me but hey that's great.

Uh not too hard. It's not a phone that works anywhere you take it. Thus it sits in top of the CD player or coffee table 6 feet away. As it did in 1989.

Hmm. I just plug CD player ----Wiim--DAC. If I'm holding a CD I don't need metadata. If I don't want the CD experience I just stream the ripped files or more typically Qobuz/Tidal. Not complicated (??).

Too heavy a computing load? Roon server running flawlessly on a 7 year old Thinkpad as it did on the 11 year old Thinkpad it replaced. No network issues , only issues have been with the remote app ARC which seem to have been sorted, at least for me.

I'm never actually casting from the phone . More correctly stated I'm using the phone as control app for WiiM as Roon Endpoint or for various Chromecast streaming devices when Roon is not involved.

Agree there.

Not sure what this means. I cast BBC Sounds from the phone to WiiM/Chromecast units. Likewise YouTube Music or Pocket Casts for podcasts. Never though of it as a hardship not having Roon do this. It's for high fidelity music.

Inelegant (Bubble), inconsistent in gapless playback (Bubble), and limited in DSP functions (Bubble and WiiM).

Yes well I have my LG phone (and mirrored on Thinkpad in the listening room) should that ever happen. Cold dead hands and all that.

I figure better to be safe. No single answer as it depends on frequency of the upward adjustment and how much headroom you have with your particular speakers and amp going in at that level.