Thanks for your demo of the app! Do you know if you can you play 44.1 kHz Flac files from an android phone to the Wiim Mini in bit-perfect mode? I have Flac files not Qobuz nor Tidal.
The Wiim Mini can stream CD quality from network attached storage. If the files are on the Android phone itself, you’ll need to use the Wiim Mini as a Bluetooth receiver. The audio quality will depend on whether your phone supports aptX or LDAC codecs for lossless Bluetooth and if you’ve enabled that on your phone. The Wiim has Bluetooth 5.2 but I don’t know if it supports either codec. If you always want to play the files from your phone and that’s all you care about , then you should pay half as much for a good Bluetooth receiver that supports your phone’s lossless Bluetooth codec.
Do you know, can I stream directly to apple full size HomePods? They already updated the Hi-Rez lossless. I have a pair of these and sure would like to get some use out of them
I don’t have those so I don’t know. You cannot use the Wiim Home app with a Wiim Mini streamer though. You can AirPlay from your iPhone or iPad to the Wiim Mini.
@@davesmusicchannel7050 to airplay from ipad air do you need wifi I need to somehow connect speaker to airpad without a wifi connection. I was looking at the Belkin soundform
@@kimjackson5907 Airplay requires WiFi. To get music from your iPad or iPhone to a speaker without WiFi, you’ll need to use Bluetooth instead. There are a lot of Bluetooth receivers out. Even the ones that support aptx and ldac are cheaper than the Wiim. The Wiim can do a lot of things but there’s not much point to it in and of itself without WiFi.
Loving mine with Tidal Connect. (Cancelled Spotify because they lied last year). I have the update for Hi-Res, but my DAC doesn't have an indicator of what it is receiving in file format via the Toslink optical out of the Mini, so I can't say whether or not it is indeed 16-bit/44.1kHz, but it sounds pretty good. Only "bad" thing I've noticed is that when streaming using my PC as a "remote" via the Tidal app, it sometimes "loses its place" or disconnects and the music keeps playing. That might be something more due to Tidal than to the Mini. And every once in a while I seem to have a slight drop out for 1/10th of a second when using the PC as a remote. Maybe that is due to it echoing back its track position, but no biggie. I can just start the stream and kill the app if I want. Good review. Thanks again.
Not yet convinced it sounds any better then my ifi zen blue bluetooth streamer. Qobuz does sound pretty good though. However the qobuz app is awful especially compared to Amazon music. Eventually I'll cancel qobuz and spotify and only use Amazon.
What about tidal hi res through optical
Subscriber 69. Who could resist? Plus the channel is informative.
it was a pleasure Dave ;-)
I have had issues with two of my units. It disappears and reconnects.
Thanks for your demo of the app! Do you know if you can you play 44.1 kHz Flac files from an android phone to the Wiim Mini in bit-perfect mode? I have Flac files not Qobuz nor Tidal.
The Wiim Mini can stream CD quality from network attached storage. If the files are on the Android phone itself, you’ll need to use the Wiim Mini as a Bluetooth receiver. The audio quality will depend on whether your phone supports aptX or LDAC codecs for lossless Bluetooth and if you’ve enabled that on your phone. The Wiim has Bluetooth 5.2 but I don’t know if it supports either codec. If you always want to play the files from your phone and that’s all you care about , then you should pay half as much for a good Bluetooth receiver that supports your phone’s lossless Bluetooth codec.
Do you know, can I stream directly to apple full size HomePods? They already updated the Hi-Rez lossless. I have a pair of these and sure would like to get some use out of them
I don’t have those so I don’t know. You cannot use the Wiim Home app with a Wiim Mini streamer though. You can AirPlay from your iPhone or iPad to the Wiim Mini.
@@davesmusicchannel7050 to airplay from ipad air do you need wifi I need to somehow connect speaker to airpad without a wifi connection. I was looking at the Belkin soundform
@@kimjackson5907 Airplay requires WiFi. To get music from your iPad or iPhone to a speaker without WiFi, you’ll need to use Bluetooth instead. There are a lot of Bluetooth receivers out. Even the ones that support aptx and ldac are cheaper than the Wiim. The Wiim can do a lot of things but there’s not much point to it in and of itself without WiFi.
Loving mine with Tidal Connect. (Cancelled Spotify because they lied last year). I have the update for Hi-Res, but my DAC doesn't have an indicator of what it is receiving in file format via the Toslink optical out of the Mini, so I can't say whether or not it is indeed 16-bit/44.1kHz, but it sounds pretty good.
Only "bad" thing I've noticed is that when streaming using my PC as a "remote" via the Tidal app, it sometimes "loses its place" or disconnects and the music keeps playing. That might be something more due to Tidal than to the Mini. And every once in a while I seem to have a slight drop out for 1/10th of a second when using the PC as a remote. Maybe that is due to it echoing back its track position, but no biggie. I can just start the stream and kill the app if I want.
Good review. Thanks again.
Why no Deezer?
It don’t win for me if my masters on tidal don’t stream hi res. And gapless. It’s good it’s now tidal connect
Not yet convinced it sounds any better then my ifi zen blue bluetooth streamer.
Qobuz does sound pretty good though. However the qobuz app is awful especially compared to Amazon music.
Eventually I'll cancel qobuz and spotify and only use Amazon.