Amirm’s review of the WiiM Ultra

[VintageFlanker]

Where will you publish? Still on ASR?

For ON-mag, in French, then perhaps on ASR in English at some point.

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[Joseespona]

“What the artist intended” may indeed be a stretch, but “the intent at the end of the mastering process” certainly isn’t.

Yes, I totally agree. But there are also compromises when mastering. For instance adapting to streaming, loudness wars etc. I understand the value of measurements, eq, room treatment etc but I think that we often rely too much on all that. What sounds good to me may not sound as good to you. I just was trying to point out the importance of selecting the right gear for your listening space and enjoying the music, not the numbers

 

[onlyoneme]

his measurements correlate with mine.

Did you have noise pollution issues similar to mine, especially when measuring with high impedance inputs like the cosmos ADC with the scaler?

 

[Fralle]

It's interesting to read the thread now that after Amirms review all seem to agree that the phono stage sucks. But to me, just using my ears I think it sounds very good to be honest.

 

[harkpabst]

It's interesting to read the thread now that after Amirms review all seem to agree that the phono stage sucks. But to me, just using my ears I think it sounds very good to be honest.

I certainly didn't agree because I made up my mind long before Amir's review.

I just don't think it's really suitable for MC cartridges. Amir originally hadn't even published THD+N/SINAD for the MM setting, but for the MC setting only. That didn't look to good. He added the graphs for MM when I asked about it.

The phono input might not be exceptional but it's good enough in many cases.

 

[slartibartfast]

I certainly didn't agree because I made up my mind long before Amir's review.

I just don't think it's really suitable for MC cartridges. Amir originally hadn't even published THD+N/SINAD for the MM setting, but for the MC setting only. That didn't look to good. He added the graphs for MM when I asked about it.

The phono input might not be exceptional but it's good enough in many cases.

Particularly when some think vinyl has a SINAD of 25dB

 

[harkpabst]

Particularly when some think vinyl has a SINAD of 25dB

When we all know it's 15 dB, max.



PS:
This week I listened to one of my favourite records again after a way too much time. This must be one of the finest LPs I own, musically and technically.
Could have.posted that to the new music section but it just fits nicely here.

 

[pjorgenunes]

Once again, it’s time to wheel out…

Matrix HiFi --> Blind testing high end full equipments

And a reminder to golden ears members, that the differences they claim to hear are between equipment far more closely specced than any used in

It's interesting to read the thread now that after Amirms review all seem to agree that the phono stage sucks. But to me, just using my ears I think it sounds very good to be honest.

+1 here. I think also it’s pretty good, at least with my cartridge. I believe Amir talks about noise. Since I don’t ear any noise from it and it sounds great… it’s good for me.

 

[Fralle]

When we all know it's 15 dB, max.



PS:
This week I listened to one of my favourite records again after a way too much time. This must be one of the finest LPs I own, musically and technically.
Could have.posted that to the new music section but it just fits nicely here.

Did you use the Wiim ultra phono stage when listening? What record was it?

 

[harkpabst]

Did you use the Wiim ultra phono stage when listening?

No. This was using my main system.

What record was it?

Forgive me, I'm getting old and left out the most important bit when rephrasing my posting:

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams