The USB or HDMI input won’t work? Toslink is what I should opt for?
The Ultra doesn’t have USB audio in, and its HDMI is for connection to a TV HDMI ARC socket, so optical is your only option (analog line in aside).
Got it, thanks!
You can try Bluetooth first. It is good enough for room correction.
Good idea. I also have a cheap USB-C to 3.5mm headphone mini DAC that I could use, but it’s probably not even better than BT.
Or try a cheap usb c to toslink converter or a ddc, various models have been suggested around the site to look at
How is that possible? The MacBook don't provide ARC on HDMI output and the WiiM Ultra only support HDMI ARC on input.
I've tried it. It works fine. ARC stands for "Audio Return Channel" meaning it's a two-way transfer of audio between the two devices. In this case, we don't need two-way communication. HDMI is able to transmit audio without ARC, and that's all the user is trying to do here, as I understand it. If I'm misunderstanding and the goal is to get audio FROM the Wiim Ultra TO the Mac via HDMI, then yeah, that's not going to work. If all they want to do is play audio FROM the Mac to the Wiim Ultra, then HDMI will work just fine.
Sorry, I think you are misunderstanding it. ARC is not two ways. It return the audio signal from a TV to another device (e.g. a soundbar) after the TV has extracted it from the digital video signal (maybe received on the same HDMI cable).
Well, damn. I was all excited to prove you wrong so I connected my MacBook to my Wiim and it doesn't show up as an audio output. It's strange, because I swear I was running that way for a while before I changed my system recently. Then again, I have a variety of adapters and docking stations, so it's possible whatever method of connectivity I was using at the time was handling passing the audio. If I get time, I'll have to try with my docking stations. Maybe I was going Thunderbolt to docking station to Display Port to HDMI or something weird like that?
