I came to this forum because my dealer pointed me to the WiiM Pro. He knows I have something like a playground and the necessary time for testing hifi. He said, have an ear on this cheap trick and tell me what you mean. Should I place it in my portfolio?
A couple of things what I noticed seeing different to, I think in the meantime, most of the foristi here is the approach to music reproduction. A few examples. If one is not interested do not read.
- "Audiophile" Till today no one could tell me a definition. Many tried, no one scored.
- "HiRes" Nice to have, but not really important. Much of the stuff they sell as 192 is upsampled.
- The DAC seemed to be the most important thing. My opinion with decades of try and error is: No, speakers and amps are. A good modern integrated will deliver all you need. Ok, no shiny box with proud 192 or Magenta MQA or DSD you can show visitors. If I remember right it was
@Mr Ee who found it funny they need to see the resolution because they can not hear any difference.
- Graphs and measurements as the one and only decision maker for purchases. Nonsense all over. Even in maths minus * minus = plus. It is always the question of components fitting to each other. I owned items which measured in ASR not so well. But sounded and sound fantastic. So, ears not oscilloscopes. But, if someone is interested in such things and has a profund scientific background it is fine. But to many first semesters stated to many bs. It is so easy today, a few hundred € or $ or what ever and you can have this gear. Have fun with it but they are not a final instance.
So, back to music. Peter Frampton is my todays go to guy. Hope, I bothered not to much