Ultra and amp pro and prices..

[AlPo]

As the team said 4.1ch, there is no center speaker.

Edit;
(From now on my fantasy. )
I think it will probably be their first step. Depending on user usage and demands, the number of channels may increase in the future.

However, in reality, it is possible that one WiiM will be required for each SR1ch. In that case, 4.1ch requires one WiiM Ultra (or WiiM amp pro) and two WiiM mini (or Pro and higher devices).

Oh. Well, So they would need a custom algorithm to downmix 5.1 to 4.1 channels, because it is not standard and widely established in the way that downmixing from 5.1 to stereo is, and not accounted for when mixing movie soundtracks. And no, the simple math of adding 50% of the center channel's level to each of the front left and right channels while keeping SL and SR as they are would not give you the result the movie soundtrack mixer (re-recording engineer) had in mind.

Anyhow, this seems a very niche application for WiiM devices for now, and so far one shouldn’t expect them to replace AVRs.

 

[freaknout]

Since it is primarily a streamer and streaming is not offered in DSD, it makes no sense to spend resources and support time on DSD playback.

You can stream locally yeah?

 

[Smartplug]

Enjoy the Summer and sell some older equipment making money and shelf space for the new WiiM.

 

[Mike in NY]

You can stream locally yeah?

Absolutely, streaming is not exclusive to the use of cloud-based subscription services. Streaming from one's own local server is... streaming.

WiiM have said they are working on a firmware update that will allow DSD to PCM transcoding on-the-fly, which will very likely disappoint the DSD enthusiasts among us, but it is a solution and shouldn't be too difficult to implement given it's been commonly available for years on free Raspberry Pi-based distros such as Moode, Volumio, or piCorePlayer.

 

[D1N0]

I am having a very hard time finding any DSD content. Certainly the stuff I am listening to is not available in DSD. It seems to be dead in the water apart from PSAudio/Octave records, but they have a limited collection. If you want DSD you seem to have to adapt your musical tastes.

 

[Mike in NY]

I am having a very hard time finding any DSD content. Certainly the stuff I am listening to is not available in DSD. It seems to be dead in the water apart from PSAudio/Octave records, but they have a limited collection. If you want DSD you seem to have to adapt your musical tastes.

Not really, that would of course depend on what one's music tastes are, and that does vary. There is a download site called NativeDSD.com that offers literally thousands of titles, as well as various specialist reissue labels such as Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions, Impex Records, and Intervention Records, that all still produce SACDs. Both Sony and Universal Japan also still produce SACDs in limited runs. No thats not the mainstream, but it is a viable market populated largely by music collectors, and in the case of nativedsd.com, classical music enthusiasts.

While it was originally difficult to rip SACDs using the PS3 method, that has been available since 2011, as has the much easier method of ripping SACD with a Blu-ray player, which was hatched in 2016. Anyone with an existing collection of SACDs has had the ability to stream those SACD rips from a local server for many years now, hence the periodic call here for DSD support.

Damn near any new DAC model you will see is DSD compatible, gee I wonder why?

 

[Mike in NY]

it makes no sense to spend resources and support time on DSD playback.

Then why do Roon, JRiver, Audirvana, Foobar, LMS, Volumio, Moode, piCorePlayer, RoPieee, and various others bother with it if it's such a waste of resources and support time?

 

[D1N0]

Then why do Roon, JRiver, Audirvana, Foobar, LMS, Volumio, Moode, piCorePlayer, RoPieee, and various others bother with it if it's such a waste of resources and support time?

I am not getting into an egoic discussion with you. If you want to be right you will have to talk to yourself

 

[Mike in NY]

I am not getting into an egoic discussion with you. If you want to be right you will have to talk to yourself

I asked a simple question there, and you didn't answer it. Oh darn.