Audiophile version of WiiM products

[dato1121]

Will there be an audiophile version of wiim anytime soon? Wanted to sell my lumin. hate the app - wiim’s is better.

 

[Burnside]

I think that this question helps illustrate perfectly the way in which foo has infiltrated the current audio scene. I feel sorry for those who are dipping their toes into the water for the first time nowadays.

Entirely. It’s just not the nonsense that’s spouted around cables in particular (viz. a recent comment in a streaming group that a £10/m solid core ethernet cable “has an ever so slightly dark balance with a prominent midrange, which pushes dynamics up even further. Also outstandingly low sibilance. Wonderful low level fine detail and soundstage and very potent bass end”. Indeed ), but the toxic atmosphere and invective should you dare to disagree.

 

[Chopin]

Entirely. It’s just not the nonsense that’s spouted around cables in particular (viz. a recent comment in a streaming group that a £10/m solid core ethernet cable “has an ever so slightly dark balance with a prominent midrange, which pushes dynamics up even further. Also outstandingly low sibilance. Wonderful low level fine detail and soundstage and very potent bass end”. Indeed ), but the toxic atmosphere and invective should you dare to disagree.

As long as people rely on self-declared specialists or believe too much in advertising this will not change, it keeps a part of the economy running. And hey, as long as people buy the nonsense with their own money? Are you really interested in how other people spend their money? Or do they take it from you? Especially in this forum it seems that the main reason for some is simply knowing-better. Do not want to know how many judges stuff they never had and they never will have.

 

[hgo58]

As long as people rely on self-declared specialists or believe too much in advertising this will not change, it keeps a part of the economy running. And hey, as long as people buy the nonsense with their own money? Are you really interested in how other people spend their money? Or do they take it from you? Especially in this forum it seems that the main reason for some is simply knowing-better. Do not want to know how many judges stuff they never had and they never will have.

This forum is trying to help people not getting fooled, if they want to.

 

[Chopin]

This forum is trying to help people not getting fooled, if they want to.

If people ask and they get help here, bravo.

 

[Burnside]

Are you really interested in how other people spend their money?

That wasn’t the point I was making, it’s the hyperbole and toxicity I was referring to.

 

[onlyoneme]

Will there be an audiophile version of wiim anytime soon? Wanted to sell my lumin. hate the app - wiim’s is better.

How would you describe such device?

 

[Burnside]

How would you describe such device?

Expensive?

 

[Valentino]

It would have:
Single ended outputs with XLR connectors.
Linear power supply.
Spiked feet.
C14 power connector for easier use of audiophile grade power cable.
Worse measured performance.

 

[slartibartfast]

It would have:
Single ended outputs with XLR connectors.
Linear power supply.
Spiked feet.
C14 power connector for easier use of audiophile grade power cable.
Worse measured performance.

Don't forget unnecessarily heavy in a fancy case.

 

[Valentino]

Yes, I forgot that the box must be big, heavy and contain lots of hot air.

 

[hgo58]

I think we can conclude that the WiiM devices is "audiophile" for those who listen to music and maybe not so much for those who listen to equipment.

 

[steadyshot]

As much as we want to sugarcoat and pretend... there are people with high end systems such the below with totally different demands from the equipment...

 

[hgo58]

As much as we want to sugarcoat and pretend... there are people with high end systems such the below with totally different demands from the equipment...

Then why consider WiiM equipment at all?

 

[castalla]

As much as we want to sugarcoat and pretend... there are people with high end systems such the below with totally different demands from the equipment...

Look like the flight deck of late 1970s Boeing 707s - forget aesthetics. I'm surprised they aren't gold-plated.

 

[Hazenhart]

Virtues and limitations of the WiiM product line aside, I think it needs to be recognized that people value all kinds of less practical or even less tangible qualities across the board -- not just in the audio/hifi space. If we only ever spent our money on the objects with optimal practical utility, most of us would be driving different cars, living in different homes, and wearing different clothes. Personally I can appreciate build quality and aesthetics that are distinct from practical utility (aka measured performance) in a variety of things. Like so much of the online social space, I think the hifi community generally needs to lighten up and tone down the mockery and acerbic disdain.

 

[Hazenhart]

That said, I own no fancy spiked feet, massive cables, or esoteric hifi accessories. I think the WiiM Pro+ sounds fantastic.

 

[steadyshot]

That said, I own no fancy spiked feet, massive cables, or esoteric hifi accessories. I think the WiiM Pro+ sounds fantastic.

What is your system?

 

[Hazenhart]

What is your system?

I have a 7.2.4 theater that is mostly Denon & Elac stuff. My multi-room home audio is WiiM Pro+s, Some KEF in ceiling, Elac bookshelves, Emotiva and Parasound amplification, and a few AudioPro A10 MkII s.

 

[onlyoneme]

It would have:
Single ended outputs with XLR connectors.
Linear power supply.
Spiked feet.
C14 power connector for easier use of audiophile grade power cable.
Worse measured performance.

Do you think it's audiophile?

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[Valentino]

Special power supply wires, special fuses. Oh yeah.