Recent content by Steve Woodhouse

I’ve had a Sonos 5 (1st gen) for many years. The sound is now very boomy and unpleasant, and I believe the room correction (Truplay) isn’t working properly. Anyway, as I had an empty house for a few hours, I decided to re-run it, but it won’t let me. I’ve been through everything, connecting the...

I’m just about to rant about the Sonos 5 elsewhere.

One of the 'albums' I've checked doesn't atually exist (a self-made compilation), so I'm very impressed that it manages to pick up my own album art from the USB and lyrics from t'internet simultaniously.

Pertaining (though just a little) to the above, I have an Ultra in my upstairs lounge with a USB drive attached. I have a Mini in the downstairs lounge, through whic I can access the music on the USB drive. The WiiM TV app I the downstairs lounge definitely displays the artwork on the USB (not...

Would you care to say why?

And there’ll be some people who’ll never use eq, never have a sub, never stream music (or never use any source other than streaming) who’d use the same point to criticise the Ultra (and other models). And people who’d never use the TV app who criticise its very existence. There’s a word for...

And there’s some people liking what you consider ‘bad taste’ and you deciding to shrug your shoulders, or you deciding you’d hate the facility to exist, even if you were never going to use it, and even though its existence would never, could never bother you.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

You could just bluetooth out to your bluetooth headphones direct from your WiiM...

Please improve the TV app so that it can show visualisers, VU meters, etc. A lot of people appear to be very much in love with VU meters at the moment, so having them on a 55", 65", 75"...who knows, 100" TV should put a big smile on their faces. Thank you.

Sorry, I don't know. But I don't believe so, and can't find mention of that anywhere, which it surely would. Also, I suppose it'd largely negate the point of a DAC/headphone amp, as you'd not be using the DAC, and you'd not be using the amp.

I'd previously installed this app on an old Amazon stick attached to a spare HDMI in on my computer screen, but rarely used it. I now have a new set up in another lounge WiiM Mini -> Topping DX5ii DAC/headphone amp-> Moondrop Para 2 planar headphones. I decided to install the TV app on the...

Absolute bliss. Wonderful sound quality. And I now have the WiiM Home TV app running through my Amazon Fire TV Cube into my 65” LG OLED. It’s quite remarkable. And the fact that I can EQ my headphones using the Mini is an excellent option to have.

Update. Up until now my system has been both speakers and headphone at my computer desk at the back of the middle floor lounge. I’ve now added to my collection a Topping DX5ii DAC/headphone amp and a pair of Moondrop Para 2 planer headphones. I’ve bought another Mini and moved that all into...