WiiM Ultra

[Purité Audio]

REW creates the number of filers it believes you need to most closely match your target curve .
Keith

 

[staticV3]

How do you set number of peq in rew?

Go to the EQ window->"EQ Filters" then disable filters until you've reached the desired number.

 

[Soniclife]

How do you set number of peq in rew?

Untick auto EQ on the filters you don't want it to use.

 

[Emiyanez]

How do you set number of peq in rew?

The best you can do is using the "Equaliser selection" menu at the top right corner of the EQ screen in REW. In "Manufacturer" you should select "Generic" and in "Model" you should select "Configurable PEQ". In the resulting menu, you can adjust the parameters to match those of the WiiM PEQ menu, so the output of the EQ in REW will match perfectly the fields in the WiiM App. You can also limit the number of filters available. More info here.

 

[ehabheikal]

The best you can do is using the "Equaliser selection" menu at the top right corner of the EQ screen in REW. In "Manufacturer" you should select "Generic" and in "Model" you should select "Configurable PEQ". In the resulting menu, you can adjust the parameters to match those of the WiiM PEQ menu, so the output of the EQ in REW will match perfectly the fields in the WiiM App. You can also limit the number of filters available. More info here.

That is great thankyou

 

[Soniclife]

The best you can do is using the "Equaliser selection" menu at the top right corner of the EQ screen in REW. In "Manufacturer" you should select "Generic" and in "Model" you should select "Configurable PEQ". In the resulting menu, you can adjust the parameters to match those of the WiiM PEQ menu, so the output of the EQ in REW will match perfectly the fields in the WiiM App. You can also limit the number of filters available. More info here.

I'd not spotted that option before, maybe it's new.

Is the Q/BW format known for the Wiim?

 

[Emiyanez]

I'd not spotted that option before, maybe it's new.

Is the Q/BW format known for the Wiim?

Not that I am aware of. @WiiM Team ?

 

[Mp0wer]

Has anyone had any problems with the 10M/100 Mbps LAN port ?

I’m curious why they didn’t use a 1000Mbps port instead or is 100 Mbps enough ?

 

[staticV3]

Has anyone had any problems with the 10M/100 Mbps LAN port ?

I’m curious why they didn’t use a 1000Mbps port instead or is 100 Mbps enough ?

No audio data that you could stream to the Ultra could even come close to saturating a 100Mbps connection, making 1000Mbps entirely pointless.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

I’m curious why they didn’t use a 1000Mbps port instead or is 100 Mbps enough ?

Way more than enough. 24-bit/192 kHz = 24 bits * 192kHz * 2 channels = 9216 kbps = 9.216 mbps.

So 10 Mbps would work for even the highest definition. And since the odds are very close to zero that your WiiM will negotiate 10Mbps with your ethernet switch (unless it is 20+ years old now), you will still have close to 90 Mbps left over.

 

[Raxumit]

No audio data that you could stream to the Ultra could even come close to saturating a 100Mbps connection, making 1000Mbps entirely pointless.

Totally true.

What's maddening is that 100 Mbps ports are also still standard for streaming televisions, which play back streams with far more demanding bandwidth. I can swamp 100 Mbps with locally stored 1-1 4K blu-ray rips streaming to Plex. It's ridiculous that WiFi can best the wired networking ports on a lot of modern devices, it's as bad as Apple dragging their heels on the Lightning connector with crummy USB 2.0 speeds.

I wish manufacturers would just spring for the slightly pricier networking chipsets. Screw 100 Mbps.

 

[staticV3]

Totally true.

What's maddening is that 100 Mbps ports are also still standard for streaming televisions, which play back streams with far more demanding bandwidth. I can swamp 100 Mbps with locally stored 1-1 4K blu-ray rips streaming to Plex. It's ridiculous that WiFi can best the wired networking ports on a lot of modern devices, it's as bad as Apple dragging their heels on the Lightning connector with crummy USB 2.0 speeds.

I wish manufacturers would just spring for the slightly pricier networking chipsets. Screw 100 Mbps.

Sony and LG TVs secretly support 1Gbps USB Ethernet converters:

 

[Mort]

Sony and LG TVs secretly support 1Gbps USB Ethernet converters:

This is the recommendation.

Cable Matters Plug & Play USB to Ethernet Adapter with PXE, MAC Address Clone Support (USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet to USB, Ethernet Adapter for Laptop) Supporting 10/100/1000Mbps in Black https://a.co/d/amRb9Rv

 

[somebodyelse]

This is the recommendation.

Cable Matters Plug & Play USB to Ethernet Adapter with PXE, MAC Address Clone Support (USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet to USB, Ethernet Adapter for Laptop) Supporting 10/100/1000Mbps in Black https://a.co/d/amRb9Rv

I would expect it to work fine with any class compliant adapter (CDC, a bit like UAC for audio devices), so long as they don't need firmware loading first. Manufacturers might also include drivers and firmware for common non-standard adapter chips like realtek. Unfortunately this isn't the sort of thing most of the adapters advertise.

 

[Mort]

Some updates. I wasn't sure if WU was keeping subwoofer volume in sync with main output. I'm pretty sure it does and that my issue was with different sources.

My 3.5 headphone jack does not keep subwoofer on now. Was that a bug fix? Not sure about any other outputs. Sub should be selectable.

In general I'm not impressed with the headphone amp. It's fine. HD650s power to high but not very high volume clearly. Little headroom.

Don't get me wrong, I like the device. Am getting a second. But I'll attach a headphone amp.

 

[Brian Hall]

In general I'm not impressed with the headphone amp. It's fine. HD650s power to high but not very high volume clearly. Little headroom.

Don't get me wrong, I like the device. Am getting a second. But I'll attach a headphone amp.

Something must be off in your setup. I get plenty of power for the HD650, HD800S and also Arya Stealth. Never need to go over half volume for more than enough loudness.

Good clear sound. I don't see any need for a separate headphone amp.

 

[Emlin]

Something must be off in your setup. I get plenty of power for the HD650, HD800S and also Arya Stealth. Never need to go over half volume for more than enough loudness.

Good clear sound. I don't see any need for a separate headphone amp.

I've only had the Ultra for a few days and only used it with IEMs, but your conclusions seem right to me.

 

[Mort]

I was surprised too based on what's written here, I'll do more testing with headphones. I probably have hearing damage and like it loud but that's unlikely the difference.

Separate question, possibly dumb.

If I'm connecting these to a Kali IN-5 Monitor, which accepts 1v RCA or 4v XLR, will an RCA to XLR cable work to deliver the 2V that the ultra can do?

I know it won't be balanced, not worried about that. I doubt I'll need the extra power either, I'm mostly curious.

 

[staticV3]

Separate question, possibly dumb.

If I'm connecting these to a Kali IN-5 Monitor, which accepts 1v RCA or 4v XLR, will an RCA to XLR cable work to deliver the 2V that the ultra can do?

I know it won't be balanced, not worried about that. I doubt I'll need the extra power either, I'm mostly curious.

Not dumb at all

Using an RCA->XLR cable, the WiiM Ultra can transmit 2V to the Kali's XLR input.

For the Kali's differential XLR input, it doesn't matter if, say, 2V is sent as 2x 1V differential, or 1x 2V Single-ended.

 

[56suited]

Here are a few possibilities:

WiiM RCA->Monitor RCA
WiiM RCA->Monitor XLR
WiiM RCA->Monitor TRS

WiiM Toslink->Monitor Toslink
WiiM Toslink->Toslink to Coax converter->Monitor Coax
WiiM Toslink->Toslink to Coax converter->Monitor AES3
WiiM Toslink->Toslink to AES3 converter->Monitor AES3

WiiM Toslink->External DAC->Monitor XLR
WiiM Toslink->External DAC->Monitor TRS

It all depends on what inputs your studio monitors have and what kind of signal voltage they need.

Does the Ultra play nicely with Neumann KH120 IIs via SPDIF?