Recent content by adias

You clearly do not know what is Schiit Audio and who’s behind it, do you?

The Mani 2 is an excellent unit with full R and C cartridge settings and gain adjustments. A very quiet amp too.

Exactly! Not very useful. Apple, in its 'protected garden’ wisdom does a very poor promoting their streaming service. They know that 99% of their Music subscribers do not care or are able to distinguish proper streaming playback.

Either you hear it or you don’t. I do and others in my vicinity hear it too. It’s all system dependent.

FYI there’s no clock in the data. The clock is generated in the streamer to push the data at its recorded clock rate. On advanced USB input DACs the stream is buffered and the clock is regenerated with a precision clock. The WiiM clock via SPDIF/coax is not bad but I can hear an improvement...

Do you have some Apple product pod or appleTV to make it work. When I tried to set it up an Apple device was required to create the hub.

FYI… the USB feature many are after on a streamer is not the USB-in port but rather the USB digital out to an external DAC.

And this… on a device that is controlled by a portable remote device (phone) with its own display. Some like pics everywhere. 👎

Yeah it’s a mess. One needs to create a “home hub” which needs a aTV or a pod… so not possible without those.

It will not be the case if Ultra creeps up above $300. I posted (removed) an example of a Pro paired with another product that is superior and under that price.

No problem but it is pertinent as the Ultra was announced as the streamer with a usb port long asked by Pro users…

Can’t disagree more.

The Pro sells for $140. A Pro with USB out - $150. For those who want a streamer only the Pro is ok. It needs a USB that’s all. For those who want a streamer and a basic analog preamp with a great headphone amp just add a Schiit Magni+. Total (Pro and Magni) under $290.

I followed your instructions. I get Aurplay. Please post detailed screenshots. In any case you are describing a hands-off cast pipeline like Chromecast, which Apple does support.

I would bet Linkplay will never offer a true analog balanced output. But time will tell. XLR sockets does not imply balanced… plenty of those and fooled customers.