Hello all,
can anyone suggest the best way of directly connecting my Mac Mini 2014 (mojave) running Origin, to the WiiM amp. Currently I’ve an ancient Griffin iMic as a DAC of sorts attached via USB to a 3.5 jack to audio-in on a very basic amp. Audirvana sees the Griffin and the Mac midi app does too and both work with it fine.
I could go with this into the WiiM amp audio line-in but I guess I would lose the possibility of Audirvana accessing the WiiM amp’s DAC? Is there a way of connecting to take advantage of this and link the DAC to Audirvana?
Also how would gain control work within Audirvana and the amp?
Please advise - as you can see I’m a bit baffled and thank you in advance for helping me work out the possibilities here.
Maybe I lam missing something in your question but I notice from the specs for the Wiim Amp it has both wireless and 10/100 Ethernet capability. So you could connect the Wiim to your home network and stream wirelessly (or wired to the Wiim) using chromecast? It should appear in Audirvana automatically.
I note from other forums the Wiim UPnP/DNLA implementation is somewhat limited but you can see if that works also.
Perhaps someone who has a Wiim Amp can add some more experienced opinions……
Thank you - the Ethernet connection sounds promising - I’ll take a look in the forums.
I’m looking at getting a WiiM Amp so it would be great to know from anyone if when wirelessly connected or Ethernet wired/ with UPnP the WiiM’s internal DAC is seen and able to be used by Audirvana - anyone with hands-on or similar?