What products you'd like to see WiiM produce?

[canard]

A WiiM interface with Calibrated Mic to attach to WiiM products to perform room response.

In a future version of WiiM Ultra the mic input could be on WiiM itself and just attach microphone.

surprising idea...

uh .....if a calibrated approach etc.. acquisition via phone or tablet with a microphone like the small Dayton usb (quote to add a small cable) seems more judicious than wired to the machine...

(ps
the additional cost of a 48v input for this use would be significant... if just for "but I already have an ecm8000"... it will be difficult to justify "for everyone"..
and people with expensive measuring microphones generally already have an interface adapted for this and super powerful software like rew etc ;-) )

 

[slartibartfast]

A WiiM interface with Calibrated Mic to attach to WiiM products to perform room response.

In a future version of WiiM Ultra the mic input could be on WiiM itself and just attach microphone.

How would that be better than just buying a calibrated USB mic?

 

[canard]

How would that be better than just buying a calibrated USB mic?

and for "very general public" use corresponding to the Wiim target ...
;-)

 

[harkpabst]

How would that be better than just buying a calibrated USB mic?

It would be better regarding user friendliness, no doubt. Get everything you need for room correction out of one hand, potentially included with the product. No need to worry about different mics and their calibration files, just plug in the supplied one and go ahead.

That's exactly the way Lingdorf do it. They even include the XLR cable and microphone stand ...

... but their least expensive offering is the TDAI-1120 at ~2000 EUR/GBP. There's a price tag to that level of convenience.

And you still don't get a mic for general purpose use, like e.g. for Room EQ Wizard. There's not one way to please everyone.

 

[canard]

It would be better regarding user friendliness, no doubt. Get everything you need for room correction out of one hand, potentially included with the product. No need to worry about different mics and their calibration files, just plug in the supplied one and go ahead.

That's exactly the way Lingdorf do it. They even include the XLR cable and microphone stand ...

... but their least expensive offering is the TDAI-1120 at ~2000 EUR/GBP. There's a price tag to that level of convenience.

And you still don't get a mic for general purpose use, like e.g. for Room EQ Wizard. There's not one way to please everyone.

It's hardly more convenient and an obvious additional cost...and th
e argument of having to integrate the CAL files into Wiim Home is not one...it only takes a few clicks ;-)
ps..I speak about it all the more freely since I use non-usb solutions;-)

 

[slartibartfast]

It would be better regarding user friendliness, no doubt. Get everything you need for room correction out of one hand, potentially included with the product. No need to worry about different mics and their calibration files, just plug in the supplied one and go ahead.

That's exactly the way Lingdorf do it. They even include the XLR cable and microphone stand ...

... but their least expensive offering is the TDAI-1120 at ~2000 EUR/GBP. There's a price tag to that level of convenience.

And you still don't get a mic for general purpose use, like e.g. for Room EQ Wizard. There's not one way to please everyone.

What is more user friendly than than plugging a microphone into a phone and optionally importing a calibration file? What kind of interface would you plug this WiiM supplied mic into and how long would the cable need to be?

 

[harkpabst]

Please, look it all up on Lyngdorf's website if you care. I'm not their sales department.

But yes, it feels way more comfortable to me just plugging the supplied mic with its 8 m long cable into the unit and starting the process from the web GUI.

 

[canard]

Please, look it all up on Lyngdorf's website if you care. I'm not their sales department.

But yes, it feels way more comfortable to me just plugging the supplied mic with its 8 m long cable into the unit and starting the process from the web GUI.

you don't understand... just in one case, connected to lynford..in the other on your phone or tablet... the power of the lynford is of course unrelated to your habits...but I don't see a real difference in terms of practicality...
;-)

 

[harkpabst]

You don't have to. You don't even have to agree. It's just my opinion and possibly one shared by @pjorgenunes. Just opinions.

 

[pjorgenunes]

You don't have to. You don't even have to agree. It's just my opinion and possibly one shared by @pjorgenunes. Just opinions.

Yep. Sharing own opions.

I've a Lyngdorf TDAi 2200 so I might be biased by my experience with it

 

[canard]

You don't have to. You don't even have to agree. It's just my opinion and possibly one shared by @pjorgenunes. Just opinions.

for me not a problem I am used to bothering with more boring solutions..the question was to know if it was really relevant to push wiim to integrate a 48v mic input on future machines when the current approach already exists allowing the function at low cost ... etc.
;-)
You might need to keep some space for example balanced outputs and a second sub, etc. ;-)

 

[pjorgenunes]

for me not a problem I am used to bothering with more boring solutions..the question was to know if it was really relevant to push wiim to integrate a 48v mic input on future machines when the current approach already exists allowing the function at low cost ... etc.
;-)
You might need to keep some space for example balanced outputs and a second sub, etc. ;-)

I don't have much knowledge but couldn't it be an USB MIC? And could be optional.

If a new model could have USB as an input port to function as an external USB DAC I believe the hardware road would be almost done

 

[canard]

I don't have much knowledge but couldn't it be an USB MIC? And could be optional.

If a new model could have USB as an input port to function as an external USB DAC I believe the hardware road would be almost done

certainly...but what does it change with the connection to the telephone tablette .. (usb is standardizing) ?
which is also the control interface therefore necessary...
So it's already there...but above all it seems to me that there are things that can be added as a priority

(and the efforts especially on the processing in rc mode more than the capture with the example of the little dayton usb-cal )
;-)
end for me ;-)

 

[harkpabst]

With the Lyngdorf amps and processors the RC computation is performed "offline" by the device itself. It's one package consisting of all the required hardware and software, controlled by a very good web GUI through the browser.

Just connecting an arbitrary USB mic to the box instead of the phone with everything else unchanged has no benefits, indeed. It just adds the need for a longer cable. I agree to that.