Fiio BT11 USB HIFI Bluetooth transmitter works great

[DaedalusEH]

My issue with Wiim Ultra has been that it doesn't support bluetooth LDAC natively. I have DACs and wired headphones, but connecting to wireless headphones adds to the convenience.
I recently got FiiO BT11 USB Bluetooth HIFI transmitter (firmware 1.0.9) and connected it at the USB output. WiiM Ultra recognised it and connected with UAC 1.0 , not sure if it is a limitation of wiim or tye dongle.
Paired my Sony 1000xm5 and connected with LDAC . I also tried my APTX lossless buds and connected fine, sound is great .

 

[DaedalusEH]

Also something to note . If you leave the dongle without playing music for more than 5 minutes, it will go to sleep mode so you need to go in the audio out settings and click to wake it up. Most likely is a wiim issue as it is meant for desktop USB devices like DACs , that are always awake when on.

 

[jfbuk]

Also something to note . If you leave the dongle without playing music for more than 5 minutes, it will go to sleep mode so you need to go in the audio out settings and click to wake it up. Most likely is a wiim issue as it is meant for desktop USB devices like DACs , that are always awake when on.

Its more likely a Fiio feature. Remember the dongle is primarily designed for phones so the dongle shuts down to conserve power and not drain the phone battery Not uncommon in such devices

 

[Wiimer]

I have a FiiO UTWS5 and I can set the time to power off in the 'Idle Power Off' section of the FiiO control app, can I do the same for the Fiio BT11?
(Sorry if this is not relevant.)

 

[DaedalusEH]

I have a FiiO UTWS5 and I can set the time to power off in the 'Idle Power Off' section of the FiiO control app, can I do the same for the Fiio BT11?
(Sorry if this is not relevant.)

Cannot see such option in BT11. You can only select the bluetooth codecs , pairing, clear pairing and reset to default

 

[DaedalusEH]

Its more likely a Fiio feature. Remember the dongle is primarily designed for phones so the dongle shuts down to conserve power and not drain the phone battery Not uncommon in such devices

Exactly Fiio BT11 works as intended (power management), though is advertised as hifi bluetooth transmitter for desktops as well . I will ask the WiiM technical department in case they have a better idea (dongle support)

 

[agriff79]

How do you manage the volume? I tried a similar setup with BTA30, but I needed to manually set the volume on the WiiM to 100%, so it could be controlled by my headphones. And if I forgot to turn it down when I switched outputs...

 

[DaedalusEH]

You can do it either way. I am currently controlling the volume from Wiim via the remote control . I have set a normal listening volume on my headphones. Though I am not really going too far from wiim , it's currently early days . it's better not to have the volume to 100% in case of distortion, as the potentiometer/circuit in there is not the best. My suggestion would to keep it to about 80 to 90%. Ofcourse if yiu haven't noticed any issues then should be fine