Phantom center in 2.0 with Ultra?

[khuntim]

I have very small space here and no room for receiver and center channel.

Using the optical out from Sony 90XL into DAC--> powered speakers.

In general, do you think the ultra will do a good job with a phantom center channel?

Right now marginal..

Tidal also!

 

[Musician]

The new firmware allows you to use your belowed 2 channel loudspeakers in a 4.0 surround setup, just adding two surround speakers.

As Tooles research has found, using two front speakers and integrating the 5.1 track sending the center channel to the fronts, needs some stereo compensation to sound as you had a ”real ” center channel.

Its like the inversion of the lowest picture in the graph.

If you know your speakers are measuring flat in the 800-3000 kHz region, You can do this with PEQ using the ultra as master or the WiiM amp pro.

if you sit in sweetspot, the 4.0 sound will be slightly clearer with this PEQ trick.

 

[Musician]

The frequency correction for my front speakers looks like this for 4.0 surround :



Frequency : 1,7 kHz
Gain : +2.5 dB
Q: 3

 

[khuntim]

Kodi is the answer to increase dialog for local files, doesn't help with streaming.

 

[harkpabst]

Kodi is the answer to increase dialog for local files, doesn't help with streaming.
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Being able to define a custom level for the centre channel downmix is certainly even better than a global EQ, which is applied to non-center contents, too. And it should even be possible for WiiM to include such a setting with their Dolby Digital implementation.

Did you already request this feature through WiiM Home app feedback? It might be worth it.

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But how does disabling AC3 transcoding relate to WiiM gear? If you don't use any extra hardware, compressed AC3 (Dolby Digital) is all that they support.

 

[khuntim]

Being able to define a custom level for the centre channel downmix is certainly even better than a global EQ, which is applied to non-center contents, too. And it should even be possible for WiiM to include such a setting with their Dolby Digital implementation.

Did you already request this feature through WiiM Home app feedback? It might be worth it.


But how does disabling AC3 transcoding relate to WiiM gear? If you don't use any extra hardware, compressed AC3 (Dolby Digital) is all that they support.

Still testing, right now DTS audio is playing as AC3 without transcoding tuned on. TV supports DTS and I have it set to output DD with passthrough on.

I tried with AC3 transcoding enabled and was getting some audio dropouts. says if the device is capable of multichannel PCM to leave it off, I guess technically it is, I have seem LPCM light up at times with the right settings.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio

It's a great feature. If the Wiim could do this would be outstanding.