What products you'd like to see WiiM produce?

[wordsum]

A vibelink amp that actually has a subwoofer output. A bar visualizer for wiim ultra screen.

 

[wordsum]

An amp with both volume control and subwoofer control knobs.

 

[harkpabst]

In my personal opinion that's for toys.

 

[wordsum]

So you prefer going into your phone app every time you want to adjust bass level? Must be one of those people that has their phone glued to their face.

 

[slartibartfast]

So you prefer going into your phone app every time you want to adjust bass level? Must be one of those people that has their phone glued to their face.

Normally you would set the subwoofer level once and then leave it.

 

[EddNog]

So you prefer going into your phone app every time you want to adjust bass level? Must be one of those people that has their phone glued to their face.

Are you adjusting that like every song or something?

I don't know about you, but once I have my tonality set (based on a curve when tuning room correction), that's it. One and done.

-Ed

 

[wordsum]

Different songs have different bass levels and sound best with the subwoofer adjusted. It's especially true when changing genres.

 

[dominikz]

IMO the best solution for this is to have an easily accessible "bass" control (usually just a low shelf filter); we shouldn't have to adjust subwoofer level to compensate for lack of bass in a song as changing sub level changes the crossover region as well.

At the moment only workarounds exist for easy bass adjustment, but a reasonably practical one is to configure smart presets with a few different low shelf filters, which we can change directly with the remote. E.g.:

• preset #1 without EQ,
• preset #2 low shelf (LS) at 100Hz with +3dB gain and Q=0.7,
• preset #3 the same LS but with gain -3dB,
• preset #4 the same LS but with gain +6dB,
• etc.

Of course the issue is that we can only access 8 presets with the remote and this would use up at least a few of those...

 

[Burnside]

IMO the best solution for this is to have an easily accessible "bass" control (usually just a low shelf filter); we shouldn't have to adjust subwoofer level to compensate for lack of bass in a song as changing sub level changes the crossover region as well.

At the moment only workarounds exist for easy bass adjustment, but a reasonably practical one is to configure smart presets with a few different low shelf filters, which we can change directly with the remote. E.g.:

• preset #1 without EQ,
• preset #2 low shelf (LS) at 100Hz with +3dB gain and Q=0.7,
• preset #3 the same LS but with gain -3dB,
• preset #4 the same LS but with gain +6dB,
• etc.

Of course the issue is that we can only access 8 presets with the remote and this would use up at least a few of those...

Weren’t Wiim talking about allowing the use of 32 presets? If they implemented a screen on the WiiM Home TV app, that would make selecting them with your tv/media box remote nice and easy…

 

[adias]

Keep insisting on a basic streamer transport. No screen, no dac, no preamp. Top shielded electronics and power supply. Call it WiiM ST as in streamer transport.

 

[EddNog]

Weren’t Wiim talking about allowing the use of 32 presets? If they implemented a screen on the WiiM Home TV app, that would make selecting them with your tv/media box remote nice and easy…

There's a beta firmware for WiiM Ultra that allows 32 alarm clocks. This is just wild. Why? How many people asked for this?

-Ed

 

[adias]

There's a beta firmware for WiiM Ultra that allows 32 alarm clocks. This is just wild. Why? How many people asked for this?

-Ed

It’s the featuritis disease.

 

[harkpabst]

Different songs have different bass levels ...

Yes, that's because they are different songs, which are intended to sound different.

... and sound best with the subwoofer adjusted. It's especially true when changing genres.

This happens very, very rarely with my collection of music and may choice of streaming channels. Even if there was a need to adjust the bass, the better way of doing it is, well, to adjust the bass, not the subwoofer level. That's what EQ is for and @dominikz gave the most important reason.

Weren’t Wiim talking about allowing the use of 32 presets?

Exactly. And it didn't sound like we had to wait for it too long ...

There's a beta firmware for WiiM Ultra that allows 32 alarm clocks. This is just wild. Why? How many people asked for this?

Since we don't read the support tickets, we don't know.

 

[F1 Fan]

It’s the featuritis disease.

Clearly someone who unfortunately suffers from Narcolepsy ..

 

[Burnside]

There's a beta firmware for WiiM Ultra that allows 32 alarm clocks. This is just wild. Why? How many people asked for this?

-Ed

@Wiimer?

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Different songs have different bass levels and sound best with the subwoofer adjusted. It's especially true when changing genres.

Surely, the exact opposite. If it's mixed with a lot of bass (compared to other genres), that's because it's intended to have more bass. Noy for you to reduce the bass so it doesn't sound more bassy than other genres; surely that completely defeats the object of mixing with more bass.

Of course, each to their own, but the general consensus is that good hi-fi recreates the source as accurately as possible.

 

[wordsum]

Surely, the exact opposite. If it's mixed with a lot of bass (compared to other genres), that's because it's intended to have more bass. Noy for you to reduce the bass so it doesn't sound more bassy than other genres; surely that completely defeats the object of mixing with more bass.

Of course, each to their own, but the general consensus is that good hi-fi recreates the source as accurately as possible.

Disagreed. I have no idea what the mixing engineer had in mind and whether they assume the end listener would be using a subwoofer or not. It doesn't matter to me because in the end, I know what sounds good or not. Leaving the subwoofer at the same level for various genres does not sound good. In the case the source audio was not mixed well, it will also not sound good.

 

[slartibartfast]

Disagreed. I have no idea what the mixing engineer had in mind and whether they assume the end listener would be using a subwoofer or not. It doesn't matter to me because in the end, I know what sounds good or not. Leaving the subwoofer at the same level for various genres does not sound good. In the case the source audio was not mixed well, it will also not sound good.

You would have hated amplifiers with no tone controls

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Disagreed. I have no idea what the mixing engineer had in mind and whether they assume the end listener would be using a subwoofer or not. It doesn't matter to me because in the end, I know what sounds good or not. Leaving the subwoofer at the same level for various genres does not sound good. In the case the source audio was not mixed well, it will also not sound good.

So, you believe that you know how the music should sound better than the actual artists, and studio engineers and producers do.

 

[wordsum]

IMO the best solution for this is to have an easily accessible "bass" control (usually just a low shelf filter); we shouldn't have to adjust subwoofer level to compensate for lack of bass in a song as changing sub level changes the crossover region as well.

At the moment only workarounds exist for easy bass adjustment, but a reasonably practical one is to configure smart presets with a few different low shelf filters, which we can change directly with the remote. E.g.:

• preset #1 without EQ,
• preset #2 low shelf (LS) at 100Hz with +3dB gain and Q=0.7,
• preset #3 the same LS but with gain -3dB,
• preset #4 the same LS but with gain +6dB,
• etc.

Of course the issue is that we can only access 8 presets with the remote and this would use up at least a few of those...

That's an idea. Not sure I'm following your logic to how changing sub level changes the crossover. I use full frequency range for my main speakers, so using a low shelf filter actually adds a high pass filter to my mains.