phonetician
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Hi all,
I'm putting the finishing touches on my first real system based around a DALI Oberon 7, a Yamaha A-S801, and a AT-LP120XUSB. Seeing all these positive reviews floating about, I picked up a WiiM Pro + yesterday and it has worked pretty great in general so far. My first listen without especially careful speaker placement and no room correction still made me giddy.
One thing happened during setup that I was less thrilled about. I hate making my first post on this form I have been lurking on such a predictable novice's gripe, but I feel like I've been generally pretty careful and just wanted to see (1) if I am the only one who has had this experience (2) what exactly I did wrong and (3) if I should be concerned for the health of my new equipment following this event. During the "Audio Sync" test that the WiiM Home app prompts you to do during setup, the setup wizard instructs you to place the speakers close together so that the Wiim gauges the latency via a sound emitted through the speakers that it detects through the microphone. As I recall (as I am unable to see the original prompts without starting the setup from scratch) it tells you to turn the system up loud, and that the tone would be high pitched and brief. I had my volume turned up to about 40% I think, and when I pressed "Next", I got a jarringly, horribly loud and distorted sound. Fortunately I was standing right by the amp so I was able to turn it down within about a second.
I've since run a 20 KHz-20 Hz sine wave sweep that I found on Qobuz while adjusting the R-L balance on the amp and don't notice anything terribly alarming. There was a tiny crackle a quarter or a third of the way through the track on the right channel but when I listened through headphones it seems it was a flaw in the source. I can drive myself crazy imagining some ever-so-slight slight distortion in the vocals at the midrange but I don't really have the means of isolating and empirically testing the signal to validate that suspicion. As someone who is new to hifi audio, it's easy for me to be overly impressed but its just as easy to be paranoid because I don't have a strong sense of reference.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my first real system based around a DALI Oberon 7, a Yamaha A-S801, and a AT-LP120XUSB. Seeing all these positive reviews floating about, I picked up a WiiM Pro + yesterday and it has worked pretty great in general so far. My first listen without especially careful speaker placement and no room correction still made me giddy.
One thing happened during setup that I was less thrilled about. I hate making my first post on this form I have been lurking on such a predictable novice's gripe, but I feel like I've been generally pretty careful and just wanted to see (1) if I am the only one who has had this experience (2) what exactly I did wrong and (3) if I should be concerned for the health of my new equipment following this event. During the "Audio Sync" test that the WiiM Home app prompts you to do during setup, the setup wizard instructs you to place the speakers close together so that the Wiim gauges the latency via a sound emitted through the speakers that it detects through the microphone. As I recall (as I am unable to see the original prompts without starting the setup from scratch) it tells you to turn the system up loud, and that the tone would be high pitched and brief. I had my volume turned up to about 40% I think, and when I pressed "Next", I got a jarringly, horribly loud and distorted sound. Fortunately I was standing right by the amp so I was able to turn it down within about a second.
I've since run a 20 KHz-20 Hz sine wave sweep that I found on Qobuz while adjusting the R-L balance on the amp and don't notice anything terribly alarming. There was a tiny crackle a quarter or a third of the way through the track on the right channel but when I listened through headphones it seems it was a flaw in the source. I can drive myself crazy imagining some ever-so-slight slight distortion in the vocals at the midrange but I don't really have the means of isolating and empirically testing the signal to validate that suspicion. As someone who is new to hifi audio, it's easy for me to be overly impressed but its just as easy to be paranoid because I don't have a strong sense of reference.
