Yamaha WXA-50 – Alexa compatible wireless streaming amplifier with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth – Black

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Be the first to know when the WXA-50 Dark Silver is available to ship. Plus, stay up to date on new products, special offers, promotions and events! Compact body only 214 mm (8-3/8") wide fits in any convenient location, can be used horizontally or vertically. No wires, easy installation. By using MusicCast, you don't need to fuss with placing wires through walls into other rooms. The WXC-50 is pretty much the same, except for skipping the amplifiers. Instead of the speaker terminals it has an extra pair of analogue outputs, an optical digital output and a coaxial digital output. There’s also a switch that selects its mode of operation. With the switch in one position, the volume control on the WXC-50 will set the output level. That’s the setting you’d use if you’re plugging it into powered speakers or a power amplifier of some kind. The other fixes the output at full blast. That’s for use with a regular amplifier, when you’ll be using that amp’s volume control to set the level. One other thing, the network connection remains active even while the units are in standby mode, so you can switch them on again via the app, or just send music to them to switch them on. Streaming

For people who want to enjoy their music in real-world living spaces, two of the most welcome developments of recent years have been the integration of streaming capability into integrated amplifiers, and the downsizing of these components. With a streaming amplifier and good pair of speakers, you have everything you need to enjoy a vast range of music, in sound quality far beyond that of most all-in-one tabletop speakers. And you can do this without breaking the bank, or cluttering up your living area with audio gear. Staying with the Sky Towers, I found Brad Mehldau’s piano tone in After Bach weightier through the NAD, and it didn’t sound hard in loud passages played at high volumes. The sound was also more three-dimensional through the D3045. However, the Yamaha WXA-50 seemed faster and more articulate -- it was easier to follow the dense counterpoint, especially when Mehldau was freely using the sustain pedal. Generally speaking, mids were insightful, detailed and with a slightly clinical edge that enabled the WXC-50 to dig deep into the mix to extract even the most subtle and shy of effects that often resided within the complex arrangement of this song. Solid state fans will adore the sound from the Yamaha, which could easily become a dictator of a small, wayward country, such is the measure of strength, power and no compromise approach it has to sound.

Yamaha MusicCast WXA-50 Amplifier and WX-010 Speaker Review

MusicCast is not a Bluetooth system but utilises a Wi-Fi connection. To install it, you press the Connect button on the front of either chassis for five seconds until the adjacent connection light flashes. Then you open the app itself and follow the onscreen prompts which involves bouncing between it and the phone’s Wi-Fi Settings screen. In that Settings screen, you wait for the MusicCast option to appear as one of the choices within the available local Wi-Fi connections list. Well it did, eventually. Nothing was seen until my third try but I finally connected without a problem once it made an appearance.

x 2” x 9-5/8” (with antenna: 8-3/8” x 4-7/8” x 9-5/8”), 8-3/8” x 1-5/8” x 9-5/8” (without antenna and feet)The streamer can be a combined device that has three functions. Firstly, the conversion of digital music files to an analog signal. This is possible when the device has a built-in digital-to-analog converter called DAC. Secondly, the presence of streaming music, or its amplification, provided that the device has an integrated amplifier – amplifier – AMP. Well, the last feature is the availability of streaming capabilities. Stream virtually any audio source via Bluetooth as an input to the WXA-50. Bluetooth sources can be redistributed through Wi-Fi to other MusicCast devices. Or stream using AirPlay from an Apple® device to a single unit. Slim, Compact Design

The first thing you need to enjoy your music streamer is a stable home internet network. From a weak or no such network, you will not be able to use any streaming services or control your equipment using a software application. Pandora. Yes, you can stream music from Pandora, except that Pandora is no longer available in Australia. Access all of your music with a simple app and wirelessly stream it throughout your home using your existing Wi-Fi® network. On Rhiannon Giddens’s wonderful new album There Is No Other (16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC, Nonesuch/Tidal), the American roots singer is joined by another multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician Francesco Turrisi, whose fascinating range of instruments includes many with an exotic Mediterranean or Middle Eastern flavor. In a cover of “Brown Baby,” a civil-rights anthem by Oscar Brown Jr., Turrisi provides accompaniment on piano and frame drum, while Giddens sings and plays minstrel banjo, a larger, deeper, richer-sounding, fretless precursor of the modern banjo.A slightly drier presentation will not suit every speaker equally, and I wouldn’t pair Yamaha to an already analytical speaker such as Monitor Audio Bronze/Silver or somewhat upper register aggressive B&W 6xx speakers for example. In such cases, you might as well prefer NAD’s tonality. That said, pair this amp with any neutral to warmer-sounding speakers such as KEF Q series, Wharfedales, Q Acoustics, etc. and you should get a very competent and tonally balanced HiFi system. Concluison The PMA-150H is a highly competitive audio streaming device in the market. This device is very versatile, which makes it incredibly convenient to use in any actions related to audio. Please note that DLNA is the most common interoperability standard. To implement this concept, it is necessary to ensure the interconnected operation of three functional modules: DMS, DMR (Digital Media Audio Renderer), and DMC (Digital Media Controller). DMS stores and sorts multimedia files, as well as broadcasts a digital audio stream to other modules of the system. In turn, the DMR receives the digital stream from the DMS and converts it into a standard form for transmission to the DAC. The latter, that is, the DMC controls the operation of the system. The streamer itself takes over the DMR functions. Any DLNA software server installed on a computer or NAS in the home network can be used as a DMS. To turn your smartphone or tablet into a DMC, you need to install one of the special applications on it and integrate it into your home network via Wi-Fi. With this version, you can enjoy streaming services like Tidal and Spotify Connect. In addition, the stream music feature has been added via Apple Airplay2 and Google’s Chromecast. Speaking of sound, it will not leave anyone indifferent: the incredible combination of rough bass when playing heavy songs and the subtle, pleasant sound of playing instrumental compositions enchants the listener.