Yea… not actually how it works. Running out of voltage results in square waves. Short peaks of 200 watts is not going to burn out a tweeter’s voice coil. Clipping results in square waves. Continuous 30 watts can easily melt a tweeter’s voice coil.
Find a shop and listen. There are hundreds of brands, not all of whom play the influencer game.
That power supply looks sketchy
If you want individual control and different music in different rooms at the same time, ditch the mess and get a stack of Wiim Amps.
If you want the same music in each room, get a beefy amp (Like a Crown) and a multi zone speaker selector from Monoprice.
Less risk of fire. 🔥
There are 7 layers to the OSI model, the basis for Ethernet. Layer 1 is the physical layer. Whether WiFi, twisted pairs, fiber, coax or pigeons, none of the other 6 layers care. Unless the phone needs to do a WiFi Direct connection, it makes no difference whether the phone and streamer both talk over WiFi or the phone talks to the access point and the streamer talks over CAT6, it makes no difference to layers 2-7.
My bigger concern is software support. I believe it’s running Android 10, required by the chipset. Once updates go away, what happens when TLS 1.3 is required by streaming services?
Wow. Apple not being 100% transparent? Who woulda’ thunk?
With storage as cheap as it is, why lossy compression?
Keep in mind Mark Levinson, the company, has nothing to do with Mark Levinson, the person. The company is Harman, owned by Samsung.
You want one volume control in the system. You are correct that most attenuate less as you turn it up as very few actually adjust gain.
First, get rid of the Monster Cable and try some 10 or 12ga wire from Home Depot. Seriously.
Second, the Chromecast Audio sounds like shit, even digital out. A Wiim isn’t the best sounding streamer in the world, though it’s absolutely decent, but it’s far better than the Chromecast.
Finally, I have an LG OLED, optical out, into a Benchmark DAC2 HGC. Using it for music, it sounds like shit. Do a real streamer.
30 Hz wavelength is 37 feet. That leg won’t mess up those feet.
Not if they’re trying to hit a low price point
Yes. I own 2 iFi Zen Streams (Office and home), a Wiim Mini, a Wiim Pro, and have also have used two Macs and a Windows PC. The Zen’s (especially with a linear power supply) trounce the Wiims. The Wiims are a little better than the Mac Mini, which is a whole lot better than the HP Elitebook.
The Wiim will do it. The iFi Zen Stream with a linear power supply will sound better, depending on the DAC and the resolving power of the rest of your system. The software is a tad shit but works just fine for local or NAS files.
Without the LPSU, don’t bother and just get a Wiim.
Wiim Pro will do it, as will Cambridge CXN v2 and Bluesound Node. Looks like the Eversolo will not. Please verify with mfgr before you buy, but I’m 99.994% certain all three of these do it.
I think you’re describing Klipsch’s house sound. Depending on budget, I’d be looking at towers or heritage series. If Klipsch isn’t reasonably priced there, maybe JBL? It sounds like horns are going to scratch your itch.
You needn’t worry much about power as horns are generally super efficient.
HK has a house sound of which I’m not a fan. I had an HK2400 amp and a Citation 25 pre. The amp wasn’t terribly impressive and the preamp just sucked. Both were purchased new.
Kenwood Basics was really good. The rest, as far as I ever heard, was mass market appropriate performance.
DAC always on (it sounds better). Amp sounds better if left on but it draws > 50 watts at idle so it’s turned off at night.