Recent content by WiimyselfandI

Judging my Wiim's business model/product history, I would think they'd be more likely to want to replace those DACs with their own devices at a price point that brings them to a larger audience than to design something to augment someone else's products. Replacing much more expensive competitor...

I'm with you on that. No issues streaming Hi-Res audio from an HDD (or in my case multiple HDDs in a NAS). Even at 24-bit/192, not any throughput issues. If pushing the bitrate beyond the threshold of the human air doesn't cause any issue but in the process you're substantially increasing the...

Has there been a significant narrowing in the gap on the input/measurement side between a relatively low cost external mic like the UMIK-1 and the mics on phones? I'm a neophyte, but it seems like if there hasn't, using your phone is a garbage in/garbage out proposition and a "capability" with...

I (think I) know the reason for this is the better mics in iPhones. Any iPhone users who also have a miniDSP UMIK-1 who can compare the two? Is it a night and day difference or just an smaller incremental upgrade?

It's probably backlash from your toilet paper tube cord storage post blasphemy. You can greatly decrease the soundstage and imaging characteristics of $3,000 cable and really shrink the sound stage and imaging the cable achieves by storing them non-precious medal tube. Obviously pre-wrapped in...

It's a nice plug-in, but the new release doesn't work with Hareplay. Sorry, I'll stop now.

You may be splitting hares there....

Personally I would love it if it offered some of the Alexa functionality for calling up music from various sources but wasn't connected to Amazon in any way (and did less data collection in the process). I'd rather cut the cord on companies like Amazon, Apple, Sonos, etc. because I don't want...

Almost three times as many Roku users as Apple TV. More Amazon Fire users than Apple TV as well. I'm biased toward Roku being next in line since I'm a user, but the market share numbers seem to support it as well. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pixalate-q1-2025-connected-tv-201800128.html

I would be thrilled if it was added to Roku and I'm guessing there are Fire TV users out that who would love to see it there as well. Any chance that's in the works?

I come across that all the time doing remodels. I big thing you also see often in older(ish) houses in the US is improper grounding where the original cabling was BX wire (the metal clad armadillo looking stuff) and/or metal conduit that use the metal casing and metal boxes in lieu of a...

Personally, I don't feel that attached to either approach. I'm not offended by words not meant in an offensive way. And on the other end of that, I'm not offended if a person wants to use a different word they prefer. If it still conveys the meaning, why the hell would I care? Sensitivity on...

And that right there is the crux of the matter. Much as I'd like Wiim to be a company that keeps improving the experience for those of us who were early adopters/beta testers, that's a pretty limited business model. For every one of us, there's a bazillion Amazon users looking for something a...

That's because you're not as able to detect change as am I. That trepanation tip is really paying off, and I'm pretty sure I can relearn how to turn left.

I think there are a lot of people that don't have multiple release versions of albums, or for that matter are even aware how much difference there can be between them. Always seems odd to me on a lot of "audiophile" forums there is ad nauseam posting and discussion about hardware issues that...