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Okay here’s a potentially daft interconnect question: I’ve plugged my Marantz CD player in to the optical in on the WiiM Pro Plus, instead of plugging it in to the Naim Nait 5i amp directly. And it sounds pretty great. Is using a bog standard optical cable in this way better than me investing...

THANK YOU 🙏 So it’s a 5V one I need to look for, yes ?

Thanks for helping me to decide to not bother researching this topic any further. I’ll stick with the bog standard power suppy. 🙏

Yes, that’s all as maybe. But does it work okay? Or doesn’t it? And if not what are the options and costs of better ones?

Interesting - how much do these things cost?

I've just wasted a good hour going back and reading this entire thread. And I'm still none the wiser. Do I need to buy a better power supply for my WiiM Pro Plus, use an old Apple USB power supply, or just crack on with the power supply that was in the box? Which sounds fine so far, to my ears.

Been savouring Tidal today. Sounds phenomenal.

Thankyou for the clear explanation. Makes more sense to me now. So it was basically developed when we didn’t have today’s broadband speeds?

Amen. I’m perhaps getting too hungup on “highest bitrates” at the expense of “actually enjoying listening to music”. 😊🙏

I think in this brilliant, considered reply you’ve helped me make a useful decision. I prefer the UX of Tidal Connect over using Qobuz (either via WiiM Home or via Chromecast from the Qobuz app). So until Qobuz Connect arrives - if ever! - I’m going to use Tidal. Thank you! 🙏

Thank you 🙏 This is a bit clearer now. But I’m still unclear as to which platform - Tidal or Qobuz - has the biggest library of FLAC files? ie Which is the better option for WiiM users like myself who don’t use an external DAC that can “unfold” Tidal MQA streams? 🙏🙏🙏

Before I switch from Qobuz to Tidal on 10th April I need to understand something better. Tidal MQA versus Qobuz - is MQA still a sticking point for WiiM users? How much of Tidal’s hi res catalogue is encoded using MQA? If the WiiM cannot decode MQA will the resulting quality be CD quality or...

Yep - that's the first thing I do with any streaming service. And I've been through the lot of them, I think! :)

Ta 🙏 I've been playing Qobuz mainly since I bought the WPP and the very highest resolution tunes have been showing up as 32 bit/192 Khz in the song info alongside track playing, so I don't *think* I've been missing out. I also think the WPP's DAC sounds pretty great, so I'm unsure about those...

So here's a question - this setting to choose the maximal optical or Coax output resolution - talks about 'to check your downstream device can support this resolution'... which makes me think > is this setting only applicable if you are using an external DAC?

And herein lies the irony.

So after using WiiM Pro Plus happily enough for two months, I've only just learned that you need to change the audio streaming quality in the app to get best quality sound output. DUH! (And I only learned this from a post on a WiiM Facebook group - can see nothing about this in the product...

“Like night and day”.

The power bank just ran out of juice. I’ve plugged the WiiM pro plus back into the wall socket. I’ll just pretend that I didn’t think it sounded better with the power bank. Which it turns out is a massively inconvenient way of powering the WPP 😂

Hi all This might have been discussed elsewhere - or be common knowledge - but I’ve started using my mobile power bank to power the WiiM Pro Plus. (And then ensuring the power bank is charged up via the mains overnight). It does seem to sound better! Though this might be my brain tricking me...