Thanks for all the replies at this point...
Finally i got a Wiim Ultra during black deals and iam quite happy.
At first glance i did underestimate the unit for sure and only saw it as a streamer - but actually it's quite more.
And i found a solution for my case, even it's quite different and far away from turntableism multiroom at this point - but much more easy in the end after my girls said "okay....". ;-)
I simply moved the turntable physically from the work/bedroom into the living room - the place where the Wiim Ultra found it's position close to the TV and where the main speakers are. That simple move nearly reduced the need to stream the turntable audio at all because its positioned much better now.
And i used the Wiim Ultra as its supposed to be - a nice receiver/streaming unit dealing all the audio traffic now... Turntable, CD Player, TV with Arc and it's grouped into several chromecast groups as desired on top.
The turntable is only playing Inside the living room - but as said, thats fine, because it's the place where i mainly listen to.
When using streaming audio by Tidal or from my Wireless NAS, iam able to stream to all my nest audios and the connected nain speaker... Those are running a little bit to fast in terms of latency so i adjusted the latency of that wired speaker inside the Chromecast group to match the grouped wireless speaker and it's workin fine for me now.
Maybe one day i could Imagine changing the Nest Audios against Wiim based speakers/Wiim Receiver + speaker in other rooms - but thats getting kinda expensive and is not necessary in 90% of our Use Case...the Wiim Versions of audio pro speakers are not available in Europe at this time - so i am curious what the future of Wiim based units will bring.
Chromecast grouping is still some buggy from time to time but for the price i can deal with it.
So in the end i stopped thinking about the idea to get my turntable records played everywhere in case of a easy and more relaxed usability and keeping the budget low.
Finally i got a Wiim Ultra during black deals and iam quite happy.
At first glance i did underestimate the unit for sure and only saw it as a streamer - but actually it's quite more.
And i found a solution for my case, even it's quite different and far away from turntableism multiroom at this point - but much more easy in the end after my girls said "okay....". ;-)
I simply moved the turntable physically from the work/bedroom into the living room - the place where the Wiim Ultra found it's position close to the TV and where the main speakers are. That simple move nearly reduced the need to stream the turntable audio at all because its positioned much better now.
And i used the Wiim Ultra as its supposed to be - a nice receiver/streaming unit dealing all the audio traffic now... Turntable, CD Player, TV with Arc and it's grouped into several chromecast groups as desired on top.
The turntable is only playing Inside the living room - but as said, thats fine, because it's the place where i mainly listen to.
When using streaming audio by Tidal or from my Wireless NAS, iam able to stream to all my nest audios and the connected nain speaker... Those are running a little bit to fast in terms of latency so i adjusted the latency of that wired speaker inside the Chromecast group to match the grouped wireless speaker and it's workin fine for me now.
Maybe one day i could Imagine changing the Nest Audios against Wiim based speakers/Wiim Receiver + speaker in other rooms - but thats getting kinda expensive and is not necessary in 90% of our Use Case...the Wiim Versions of audio pro speakers are not available in Europe at this time - so i am curious what the future of Wiim based units will bring.
Chromecast grouping is still some buggy from time to time but for the price i can deal with it.
So in the end i stopped thinking about the idea to get my turntable records played everywhere in case of a easy and more relaxed usability and keeping the budget low.
