looks really promising.. from the you tube promo video looks like there's 'usb a' input.. hopefully it will support not only apple products but also external drives.. optical input, rca in and out, pre out, remote control, spotify connect, airplay, bluetooth, internet radio, subwoofer out, network in, digital outputs, dac, small size and good price too.. nice indeed...looks like a great active speakers partner.
New Yamaha WXC-50
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tino
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This caught my eye as well. Nice networked digital front end, DAC and pre-amp. I think it uses the Sabre ESS9006 DAC ... although the 9016/9018 might have been better? Also not sure if Bluetooth implementation is aptX?
just ordered one. Due sometime in the first week of September just before I turn to the dark side...
Blacksabbath25
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Frank Harvey
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Noticed this the other week when I was breathing the profile for it - interesting little box. Ideal for a number of solutions.
Interesting mix of abilities, but lack of headphone socket seems unusual in the current market. Many DAC's / preamps and integrateds are going to some effort these days to cater for the growing desire for decent headphone quality. Having said that, many of those solutions don't provide as many streamng options, particularly for the price.
It is simply a very nicely equipped streamer which includes basic pre-amp facilities built in, including eq.
You can stream from a hand held device over Airplay or Bluetooth Aptx, access your local libraries on the network and it has built in functionality for, among others, Spotify Connect, Tune in radio with more streaming sites to come (Tidal?).
No ripping or storage facilities and limited inputs but for a lot of modern setups with no conventional (legacy) sources, pretty cool.
You can stream from a hand held device over Airplay or Bluetooth Aptx, access your local libraries on the network and it has built in functionality for, among others, Spotify Connect, Tune in radio with more streaming sites to come (Tidal?).
No ripping or storage facilities and limited inputs but for a lot of modern setups with no conventional (legacy) sources, pretty cool.
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David@FrankHarvey said:
That's what the hi-fi industry needs more of: people who don't just sell the products, but also breathe their profiles. ;-)
bigboss said:
Airplay and Bluetooth are built in as is Spotify Connect. There are other streaming services built in and Tidal support is expected by way of an update.
Should it be important to you, it will also handle hi-rez bitrates. Can't really comment on the multiroom capabilities which are Sonos's strengths, the Yamaha control app seems to be good too.
The big question for many is whether the sound quality will improve on Sonos, Sonos is pretty good but can be improved with an outboard dac, if Yamaha can produce a reallt decent analogue out, they could be on to a winner.
I am currently running a Teufel Connect, half the price of either the Sonos or Yamaha option, it works very well but is just slightly limited in funcyionality. I can live without Airplay, but it would be nice to have.
Frank Harvey
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for delivery tomorrow.
Will have a play but with cheap M-Audio actives as I'm waiting for new speakers and stands to arrive.
Will have a play but with cheap M-Audio actives as I'm waiting for new speakers and stands to arrive.
tino
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Blacksabbath25
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i should get mine this week sometime i have ordered the pre-amp version its taken ages to come out .
Blacksabbath25
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just to use air play stream my music of my Mac to my Hifi . I wanted to use the onboard dac on my cdplayer but can not use the cdplayer in this way only if I wanted to connect a hard drive to it . I tried the airport express but kept getting sound drop so the music cast was was something I could try if it does the same as the airport express did then I will take it back as I have ordered one on sale or return . Let's hope it works . There is a good dac onboard this new Yamaha music cast so I was hoping I would get the same quality out of the music cast as I do with the yamaha cdplayer .Andrewjvt said:
Blacksabbath25 said:
Let us know how you get on.
Did you know i can make my own music server (nas)with the hegel and stream over network. Its quite easy to do (and cheap) and use my phone to control.
I was strongly thinking but then i like the innuos products as can send directnlink through usb also
alchemist 1
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I think you'll need to cancel your order, Temptation is on its way..........NS5000's.......*wink*Blacksabbath25 said:
Judging from the Yamaha advert in the latest WHF '40 years of advertising features' special (don't miss the Spot the Editorial competition), you can buy the WXC-50 now, try it for 40 days and then get your money back if you don't like it. Looks like a no-brainer.
Blacksabbath25
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i am happy with what ive got but £14000 is a bit steep for speakers i will pass but got word today to pick my music cast up but i am busy at the moment so it will have to be next week sometime when i pick mine upalchemist 1 said:
Blacksabbath25
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that's what I've ordered the pre amp version . Have you tried iTunes AirPlay with it yet ? i will be hooking mine up to my Yamaha amp and probably hide mineluckylion100 said:
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