How has the Mini changed?

[flatwound]

Bought a new mini last week, my second mini. The original mini was gifted to a family member, and the new mini is in my listening room.
After setup, I noticed that the Aux out sound from the new mini is much improved over the original mini. So much so, that I no longer feel a *pressing* need to toslink out to my external dac. With the original mini, aux out was not very impressive.
The new mini is a C2ea model, build date 08183023. Did they make a hw or sw change in the newer versions?

 

[canard]

what is to be feared is that it may correspond to a degradation of the old one..

 

[Brantome]

Bought a new mini last week, my second mini. The original mini was gifted to a family member, and the new mini is in my listening room.
After setup, I noticed that the Aux out sound from the new mini is much improved over the original mini. So much so, that I no longer feel a *pressing* need to toslink out to my external dac. With the original mini, aux out was not very impressive.
The new mini is a C2ea model, build date 08183023. Did they make a hw or sw change in the newer versions?

Not that I’m aware, but as you’ll know, they are subject to regular firmware updates.

 

[Brantome]

what is to be feared is that it may correspond to a degradation of the old one..

Sorry, you‘re confusing WiiM with Apple…

 

[cc_rider]

Any hardware changes would require re-certifying with the FCC. That hasn't happened. I suspect the usual, confirmation bias.

 

[onlyoneme]

I'm not really surprised, my first Mini unit measured much worse than the second one with huge differences between channels. A sign of that can be seen in Amir test on ASR.

 

[Guest1]

The Mini listed among prominent neighborhood in yesterday released Stereophile magazin as part of "Editor's 2023 Recommendations". Not too bad

 

[steadyshot]

The Mini listed among prominent neighborhood in yesterday released Stereophile magazin as part of "Editor's 2023 Recommendations". Not too bad

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