Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Stereo receiver for M3's?

Cool. Let us know how it goes. M3s are easy to drive so should be great.

I own that amp. Bought it to evaluate the 3255. Haven’t done any critical listening and only ran it with a pair of Bose 101 monitors… but I’m fairly happy with it.

I see I'm too late, but I'll make my reco anyway, just in case:
https://www.crutchfield.com/p_022WXA50DS/Yamaha-WXA-50.html

The unit you bought (S.M.S.L AD18 ) looks interesting … I’d like to hear you opinion as well.

The AD18 has a so-so review from audioscience: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...measurements-of-smsl-ad18-dac-amp.7325/. Although it does seem interesting at its pricepoint.

What I like about the Yamaha is MusicCast, so you can control the thing with your phone, including selecting music from the USB drive.

Most of the big manufactures have phone apps that multicast and allow control from a phone. Most allow you to play off USB. The big problem is that these manufacturers all have their own proprietary multicast systems (IMO an attempt to tie you into their system). These systems don’t play nice with each other.

The saving grace is that all of them support airplay … but that just allows you to multicast to these AVRs/prepro from iTunes server or device. You still need the manufacturers app to control each unit.

But you knew that … right

I don't think it's an attempt to tie you to their system. If an industry standard existed, and it was generally accepted, they'd use it.

I did! But I was comparing to the AD18, for which I didn't see such an app.

The other, unspoken emphasis, was that it works well; and with Yamaha you can expect it to be around for a while. So if you get another Yamaha (there's the system lock rrlev!) then they all work with the same app.

And while I'm at it, what I don't like about airplay is that it requires your phone/tablet to be in use; with MusicCast you select/stop/start from the phone, but the actual playing is handled by the device.

Pretty sure Cam uses his voice to tell his PC what to do.

As far as multiroom stuff goes Bluos is the way to go.

If he's using the USB plugged into the amp, I don't think computer voice control is going to help him.