Hi folks I'm cross-posting this from the Reddit sub,
I've poked around on Wiim info a bit, but frankly not very much. I'm now in a relatively urgent moment to buy a new stereo amp of some kind, and I'm thinking of jumping into a Wiim amp, as well as one of the non-amp streamers for another room.
Let me try to describe my situation and general orientation toward music. This ecosystsem *might* be great for me, or it might just totally miss my needs...
- We're not exactly audiophiles, but we do love/obsess over music and certainly want good quality
- We do not, and probably never will, subscribe to any streaming services, like Spotify, Tidal, etc. That's not how we get our music.
- We listen to a rather extensive collection of music (mostly FLAC/mp3s) that we store on sort of a home-made NAS using OpenMediaVault
- We do stream music off both the Live Music Archive and YouTube(the latter quite extensively). Also streaming radio stations from their websites.
- We currently have a very very very old analog stereo receiver connected to some vintage speakers. Essentially the only input we ever use to this is from a PC connected via a cheap DAC. This PC is used to stream both internet content and stuff from the OMV server
- This receiver is dying and urgently needs to be replaced. I'd like to keep using the speakers, so to replace it with another amp rather than powered speakers or something.
- Here's where we start thinking about Wiim: We also listen to music in another room. All of this music originates at the same PC as plays the receiver.
- In the other room, the music plays via a SVS amp with built in DTS Play-Fi. So we generally just use the Play-Fi app installed in the PC to just shove all the sound from the PC to the SVS, whether it is playing stored music from a music app or YouTube. The Play-Fi...works. Kind of. Frankly it's always been pretty janky, and I wouldn't mind at all using something that's more reliable.
- So what I'm thinking of is to get a Wiim Amp to replace the dying receiver, and also get a Wiim Pro or similar to put next to the SVS amp, basically turning that into just an amp getting its input from the Wiim pro.
- We would then do...something...still learning about this - but I think we would create a multi-room group to be able to play the music from the PC to the Wiim amp, and/or also play it at the Wiim Pro in the other room, to feed the SVS amp.
Does this make sense? Is it a viable solution to my use case? Or am I just missing the point of Wiim because I don't stream anything anywhere but networked files and YouTube to the single PC? The other option would be to just get an un-networked amp to connect to the PC to play in that room, and keep using the Pay-Fi to get to the other room.
Appreciate your help in navigating this dinosaur through the Wiim world! Thanks in advance.
I've poked around on Wiim info a bit, but frankly not very much. I'm now in a relatively urgent moment to buy a new stereo amp of some kind, and I'm thinking of jumping into a Wiim amp, as well as one of the non-amp streamers for another room.
Let me try to describe my situation and general orientation toward music. This ecosystsem *might* be great for me, or it might just totally miss my needs...
- We're not exactly audiophiles, but we do love/obsess over music and certainly want good quality
- We do not, and probably never will, subscribe to any streaming services, like Spotify, Tidal, etc. That's not how we get our music.
- We listen to a rather extensive collection of music (mostly FLAC/mp3s) that we store on sort of a home-made NAS using OpenMediaVault
- We do stream music off both the Live Music Archive and YouTube(the latter quite extensively). Also streaming radio stations from their websites.
- We currently have a very very very old analog stereo receiver connected to some vintage speakers. Essentially the only input we ever use to this is from a PC connected via a cheap DAC. This PC is used to stream both internet content and stuff from the OMV server
- This receiver is dying and urgently needs to be replaced. I'd like to keep using the speakers, so to replace it with another amp rather than powered speakers or something.
- Here's where we start thinking about Wiim: We also listen to music in another room. All of this music originates at the same PC as plays the receiver.
- In the other room, the music plays via a SVS amp with built in DTS Play-Fi. So we generally just use the Play-Fi app installed in the PC to just shove all the sound from the PC to the SVS, whether it is playing stored music from a music app or YouTube. The Play-Fi...works. Kind of. Frankly it's always been pretty janky, and I wouldn't mind at all using something that's more reliable.
- So what I'm thinking of is to get a Wiim Amp to replace the dying receiver, and also get a Wiim Pro or similar to put next to the SVS amp, basically turning that into just an amp getting its input from the Wiim pro.
- We would then do...something...still learning about this - but I think we would create a multi-room group to be able to play the music from the PC to the Wiim amp, and/or also play it at the Wiim Pro in the other room, to feed the SVS amp.
Does this make sense? Is it a viable solution to my use case? Or am I just missing the point of Wiim because I don't stream anything anywhere but networked files and YouTube to the single PC? The other option would be to just get an un-networked amp to connect to the PC to play in that room, and keep using the Pay-Fi to get to the other room.
Appreciate your help in navigating this dinosaur through the Wiim world! Thanks in advance.
