What products you'd like to see WiiM produce?

[adias]

How about an all out assault on just a digital streamer. I find the USB out on my ultra does not sound as good as the ultra alone with a dac that I would like to use. So great USB out tosslink and coax. And give it a lot of computing power so you can change tracks quickly surf the app quickly. So more speed and again and all out assault on better digital outputs in a nice box.

That's a basic streamer transport. Yeah, WiiM should make one - being proposed several times.

 

[Swan55]

Yes that is of course possible. They would probably be much more expensive than conventional setups of discrete boxes. So I don't see any companies doing that.

You can however build your own, as a modern steamer is mostly a computer. Check out e.g. the raspberry pi audio projects.

Raspberry PI Music Server – The Complete Guide (2025 Edition) - Music Server Tips

Introduction Over the years, I’ve tried all kinds of computer setups for music playback—fanless Intel NUCs, Mac Minis, custom PCs…...

www.musicservertips.com

Hgo58:
I agree that it would be more expensive, and I also suspect that the actual improvements over time would turn out to be negligible (there is often some incompatibility issue - often unseen), and how many customers would actually get their spanners out ? So at the end of the day, probably a non starter (and after all, the manufacturer wants to sell new units).

Thanks for the diy link = a nice read.

 

[Swan55]

And the USB Board cost 3 times as much as an WiiM Ultra

Hgo and Edd,

Thanks for your replies; I found a brief overview of the Innuos in this Stereophile article from April this year. The prices mentioned are not for our little swan-pond (now, where's that lottery ticket ?).

Stream Syndicate: Innuos, dCS, D’Agostino, and Wilson Audio Make Waves | Stereophile.com

In two adjacent rooms on the 14th floor of the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel, Innuos launched its latest Stream1 and Stream3 devices. Conceived as “the gateway to high-performance music,” the Stream series works with the Innuos Sense app. The app’s latest additions include a portal to the IDAGIO...

www.stereophile.com

 

[Kblade97]

USB audio out is USB audio out. There are no such thing as a better USB. You can have better clock pression on TosLink but that is really not need.

The speed of track control mostly depends on your network and attached disk speed, so not much to do there either.

Disagree

 

[hgo58]

Disagree

Explain.

 

[Machiavelli]

'honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress'. mahatma gandhi

 

[r5yk5]

New Mini with better processor/more memory, USB-C and Lyrion (LMS/Squeezelite) support.

Whenever my mini doesn't do something that the pro plus or ultra will do, I never think "ooh I wish I had a great big plastic box on my bed side table".
I always think "I wish they made a better little disc"

 

[adias]

Explain.

This has been explained ad nauseum. USB out is an asynchronous channel. It allows the receiving DAC to fully reconstruct the stream with precision clocks - if the DAC has those.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

This has been explained ad nauseum. USB out is an asynchronous channel. It allows the receiving DAC to fully reconstruct the stream with precision clocks - if the DAC has those.

And if that made a real-world difference to the sound it would show up with provable audible differences in distortion measurements. Which tends not to happen with decent DACs.

 

[obertransae]

Please provide bookshelf speakers with matching stands..

 

[Machiavelli]

and for the real die hard fans. show the world what you love would call it the nora way.

 

[canard]

Is there standard galvanic isolation on the USB? Not sure...
This can probably sometimes explain differences in situations, etc
;-)
Toslink sure
Spdif aes often. and easy to do ...
Usb?
;-)
You always have to look at situations in detail to avoid regrettable shortcuts* ;-)

*(see also what is present in the measurement methodologies that we come across on this point, the isolations being generally present there)