Apart from a coaxial out and better looking, I can't see what it offers over a Wiim Mini?Quite sure not. (And to be honest, very personally and egoistic I hope not)
For such use case the market offers more than enough. In every price range.
Makes very little difference for me as my hearing is so shot that all this fancy codec stuff makes little if any difference. Saves a lot in investing in high end audiophile stuff which I could never hear any differences
I don't think you can fairly compare them - the Fiio SR11 looks primarily like a Roon Ready DAC-less endpoint with digital outputs while the Mini is more of a general purpose streamer. Different markets I'd say
I think you should agree that rooners are a minority so a better basic featured and cheaper device, could be better for the others. Forgive me I have some personal reasons against Bluos...
But often firmware updates are more important - I've had 2 FiiO devices & each has only ever received one firmware update. I get the impression that fiio prefers to release newer models rather than developing existing devices.
. Only Sonos has this area covered.
Just which features have you lost?Yes, of course. And I write always about devices I know and have at least basic experience. I loved my little WiiMs for quite a long time. But since a good while...Forgive me I have some personal reasons against WiiM
One looks, one pays, one gets. From that very moment my empathy tends against Zero when my device gets worse and does not longer that what I paid for or looses features silently over night. As long as WiiM does not find a solution that avoids forced updates I am out.
Not sure what you mean about the podcasts?What surprises me is that none of these systems cater for the audio listening market - which must be quite large with podcasts & audiobooks (okay nothing like the Swiftie or Beyonce market)
I use Pocket Casts - only supported by Sonos. You can get podcasts via Spotify, but that's another subscription charge. At least, Tidal offers music videos but only via the native app, or via their fire tv app (which is rather good).
Don’t worry most people including myself can’t hear a difference either. Human hearing isint sensitive enough. Full disclosure I have a pretty decent system and stream Qobuz. Can I tell the difference between it and Apple Music via airplay? Nope. Placebo effect is rampant in the hifi audio world. But I bought the ultra because of its sub output and bass management. So I switched to Qobuz. Happy with everything though. Rock on.Makes very little difference for me as my hearing is so shot that all this fancy codec stuff makes little if any difference. Saves a lot in investing in high end audiophile stuff which I could never hear any differences
Thanks for that. The transmit bt is useful for use with bt headphones & speakers. That's how I use the Wiim mini - a sort of dedicated headphone device.
Googling bluesound and UPnP/Dlna comes up with statements from them displaying the same head in the sand attitude they displayed when discussing bit perfect casting from the Amazon Music app. They decry dlna/upnp as having poor meta data management (wait and see what @simbun says about that
) preferring to use Samba instead. It really sounds like they haven’t looked very deep into it and have a not-invented-here view of it…I looked at BluOS years ago as I have a NAD amp that accepts the swappable hardware modules. I think I remember their support saying that UPnP wasn't suitable for synchronised distribution (too much overhead), but I haven't seen any comments about the metadata.They decry dlna/upnp as having poor meta data management (wait and see what @simbun says about that
Well, without upnp and/or chromecast, there's always the airplay bridge plugin - not a favourite of mine, so that's the bluesound on the back burner. At the opposite end of the scale, I'm quite impressed by my Naim muso. Nice sound, decent app & works flawlessly with LMS. And it lights up with a hand gesture!
Don't take it so much to heart... It's just techno-gossip, not really important at the end of the day
My curiosity was (I forgot to ask) if have you experienced some freezing or other connection lost with Nano or I have to argue that is mainly a Nad related problem...
So, it's Nad related. I heard about same misbehavior from other nadders.
