- Professional-Ject publicizes two wi-fi upgrades for traditional hi-fi gear primarily based on WiiM OS
- Stream Field E upgrades your amp with streaming abilities
- Wi-fi Field E turns any passive audio system wi-fi by connecting to the binding posts
Beloved hi-fi model Professional-Ject hasn’t slowed down in any respect in 2026. After saying a premium turntable in January and file cleaner final month, it has two extra items of substances coming quickly.
The model has introduced the Stream Field E and Wi-fi Field E, as a part of its rising hi-fi ecosystem. They price £159 (about $200, AU$300) and £199 (round $270, AU$400) respectively.
The Stream Field E is a wi-fi community streamer and digital pre-amp that may improve your wired audio system to permit for Spotify Join, Tidal Join and Qobuz. It may be linked to an amplifier, or on to lively audio system.
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Then there’s the Wi-fi Field E, which additionally offers a tidy tech improve to present gear. This time, it upgrades your passive loudspeakers, performing as a wi-fi receiver for them, that means you may place them wherever with no need to fret about working cable to them, providing you with extra flexibility over the place you set them, or maybe the place you set the remainder of your hi-fi setup.
You will want one per speaker, after all, and every must be linked to an influence outlet.
A WiiMsical alternative
Maybe essentially the most intriguing a part of the information, is that the Stream Field E and Wi-fi Field E will each run on WiiM OS. It is a platform primarily designed for the model’s personal tech like such because the WiiM Sound, however can be accessible to different manufacturers, bringing their tech into the burgeoning WiiM ecosystem.
We’ve in contrast Sonos vs WiiM previously that will help you perceive the variations, however the gesture is evident: that is a part of a rising various to Sonos, and is clearly one that wishes to be as versatile as attainable primarily based on these launches.
Nonetheless, there is a large catch right here for Apple customers, which isn’t precisely a small portion of the world. WiiM has some type of on-going problem with Apple that implies that lots of its merchandise do not embody Apple AirPlay 2 as a simple streaming choices, and it is the identical with these.
Whereas help for the likes of Spotify Join and Tidal Join may imply you are really advantageous with this, it additionally means these packing containers are principally no good if you happen to’re an Apple Music person, or if you would like to have the ability to use AirPlay’s platform-neutral multi-room abilities.
On this occasion, Sonos completely nonetheless has the sting — it not solely helps AirPlay absolutely, it is the one model with a streaming amp that has native Apple Music help in its app for lossless listening.
The quick tempo with which Professional-Ject is releasing gears reveals that it’s solely getting greater and larger within the house hi-fi sport, particularly with inexpensive choices like these. Maybe it’s discovered a great companion within the equally bold WiiM — we won’t wait to see how effectively these work in follow.
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