Recent content by Steve Woodhouse

I'd not read the specs, that looks much larger than I first thought. Ah, and there's the stand with the two screw holes you'd guessed at. (y) The screen is a nice touch. It looks big enough to see the clock or artwork across the room. Not big enough to see the menus unless you're up close...

They don't sound like words for "sh*tposting". And they're English. I was looking for a French word.

This is an area that interests me: that some words don't translate well. You may know this, is there a French word for 'sh*tposting'? In English it means "...the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor...

The Eversolo Play (without CD) is €699 which is c.£590. The THD and SNR specs as quoted by Eversolo are pretty much identical to the Vibelink, by the latter has 100W into 8 ohms vs the Play's 60W. As long as the Ultra Amp comes in at £600, it'll be the same money but better. If it comes in at...

So, if the Ultra is £350, and the Vibelink is £320, that's a total of £670. How much can they save (if anything) by having it all on one box, with only one DAC chip?

Many thanks, always good to be enlightened.

I've just had time to (try to) cross check the specs. Unfortunately, whilst WiiM have published THD+N and SNR specs for this new amp, I can't find any for the Vibelink (let me know if I've missed them somewhere). We do have Amir's measurements for the latter, and what WiiM are claiming here...

To save me from having to cross-check the specs, is this an Ultra with a built-in Vibelink amplification stage, or a WiiM Amp with the front end upgraded to Ultra standard?

I don't think so. I've bought plenty of hi-fi (and other) kit from China, with prices from dirt cheap to quite expensive, which have included batteries.

Seconded.

I think a CD player/ripper with an inbuilt HDD, which you could share with any WiiM streamer you had would be a great idea.

ARC/eARC don’t actually do very much, though what they’re supposed to do is obviously very useful. Subsequently, pretty much much all the multiple threads about ARC not working properly are about things which are ‘pretty fundamental’.