WiiM ultra radio paradise

[jetson]

For few days, radio paradise is only as 16bit 44khz, other station like motherearth and superstereo are higher bitrate ???? Anyone has this problem ?

 

[harkpabst]

To the best of my knowledge Radio Paradise has always broadcasted at 16 bit 44.1 kHz (letting aside their short flirt with MQA).

And I don't see no problem here.

 

[d6jg]

To the best of my knowledge Radio Paradise has always broadcasted at 16 bit 44.1 kHz (letting aside their short flirt with MQA.

And I don't see no problem here.

Yes. It is FLAC but only at 16/44.1 AFAIK.
Obviously not a suitable service for those with Golden Ears but for the rest of us ..........

 

[jetson]

To the best of my knowledge Radio Paradise has always broadcasted at 16 bit 44.1 kHz (letting aside their short flirt with MQA.

And I don't see no problem here.

it's curious, it's only been a week since I had my wiim ultra, at the start of my radio paradise listening I think I saw 24bit 192khz, but ok thank you

 

[Burnside]

it's curious, it's only been a week since I had my wiim ultra, at the start of my radio paradise listening I think I saw 24bit 192khz, but ok thank you

I fear you may be mistaken, RP only delivers 16/44.1 FLAC (if we park their MQA offering for Bluos…)

 

[harkpabst]

And here we go. For a couple of days not the integrated Radio Paradise music service shows up as "24-bit/44.1 kHz".



Unfortunately, that's not good news to me. Firstly, because Radio Paradise don't claim to be streaming 24 bit content. And they would, if they did. Bill Goldsmith is very much technically inclined and has shown massive interest in everything concerning sound quality. Where does this "24-bit" number come from?

Secondly, because from time to time a data rate is shown in addition to the bit depth and sample rate.



320 kbps is not what I'm expecting from a losslessly compressed FLAC stream at all (even less 319 kbps ).

The data rate display comes and goes, across all four officially supported mixes. I'm not on a beta programme for the WiiM Home App, nor on the Radio Paradise beta firmware (there currently is no such thing for the WiiM Amp Pro).

Did anybody else experience the same?

 

[harkpabst]

Heck, I'm in a WiiM Ultra thread. Should have posted the above to the music services subforum ... sorry.