![]() ![]() I also have an iFi Zen DAC V2 which is connected through USB to my MacBook Pro. If you are familiar with the Qobuz and Tidal apps you’ll find your way around StreamMagic fairly easily. Its app, WiiM Home, works pretty similar to StreamMagic. The only other streamer I have at home is my WiiM Mini. I’ve also enabled the preamp option in its settings, so I can remotely change the volume of the device. Like changing its name that shows up on your network or its AirPlay and Chromecast functionalities. After that you only have to do some minimal changes if you like. After first boot it takes you through the setup, and after connecting to my wifi and opening up its admin page through a webbrowser it went ahead and updated its firmware. Didn’t read the manual and I was up and running very quickly. It is very easy to use and pretty straightforward. This is a test setup as I’m planning to do some rearranging to get my streamer connected digitally to my Harman Kardan receiver in the living room. The PreSonus speakers are active speakers so they have their own build in amplifier. After installing the apps on my old Nokia phone running on Android, that one works straight away.Īt the moment I’ve hooked up the Cambridge to a set of PreSonus Eris E3.5 BT monitor speakers through its RCA output. They just don’t want to find the streamer. I’ve ran into an issue with them on my iPhone. When it comes to its accompanying apps (Cambridge Connect and StreamMagic). It’s completely Roon Ready so very easy to use in Roon. My only requirements are to be able to take full advantage of higher bitrate audio, and do so without 40ft of wires. If I can get this bit right, get the music wirelessly from whatever I’m using to control it (roon, tidal etc) to an am via a decent dac, then I’d like to keep that bit of the puzzle and upgrade other components as I can get away with it.Ĭan anybody shed any light, as it appears I’m seeing two sets of feedback, great praise on cambridge streamer / node etc from whathifi and the likes, then tech posts on avr and other sources showing all the failures compared to other things. Considered Wiim Pro if I can get one then (insert DAC here?). Considered a node but being so locked in to one integrated solution or replacing half it’s functionality later doesn’t sit well. Gut says the streamer I’ll find frustrating and the DAC will be over priced and that there are better I just don’t know about. Budget is ideally ~700 but can go higher or lower as required.Ĭonsidered 2x cambridge audio devices, their streamer and their dacmagic + something else. Then hopefully I see the short comings in my speakers and can replace them, then likewise the amp. ![]() I feel that I need a good DAC and a way to get the digital audio to it wirelessly without complex apps. For context the entire house has gigabit networking + a great wifi setup with 8x wifi points. Obviously have access to higher quality audio but the chromecast audio can’t handle it and cap’s out lower than I want. Other members of the house just cast from whatever they’re using (spotify, youtube, bbc sounds, whatever). ![]() ![]() Vinyl setup I’ll disregard as concerned with digital only here. Music is 100% streamed from either mobiles (tidal mqa, usually downloaded to device) or via pcs using roon. Preface, feel free to skip: I thought this would be simple, but it’s appearing to be very complicated, and may need multiple conversations to handle my full setup in various rooms (2x 5.1s, projector, great sony bravia’s with unused atmos, a plethora of wireless speakers), but will concentrate on the traditional hi-fi setup in my home office first.Ĭurrently, a very simple entry level setup, a couple of dali stand mounts, an onkyo amp, and a chromecast audio in to the amp. ![]()
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