Pro setup with sub in different room

[jeffme]

Hi - I'm looking for help thinking about the best way to add a sub when you have all your WiiM amps in a network closet far from the room where you want the sub.

I know there are some wireless sub extenders (SVS, REL, etc.), but those are generally line of sight / intended for removing cables in a single room, not down a hall and through several walls.

The mains in the room are powered by an Wiim Pro+ feeding into an amp with built-in DSP (Sonance 8-130 MK II) that can high-pass the signals at a cutover with a roll off, so the mains won't be working with LF.

I'm thinking of an SVS 3000 Micro, which has a USB outlet & can power the extra WiiM.

Is there anything I'm missing here? What are best practices in a setup of this sort?

I'll be very excited to get hi-res and persistent groups to support this in the future, but I'm hopeful this should still be pretty helpful.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[jeffme]

Whoops - I should have added that I'm thinking of driving the in-room sub with a second WiiM attached to the sub and grouped with the mains for that room (along with whatever other rooms are in the group).

 

[Hazenhart]

Building from my reply to you in my other thread, I am doing this, as is another forum member (I'll refresh my memory on who it was and come back and tag them here). Eq-ing is complicated, but it overall works pretty well. Measuring delay through the canned tone is pretty non-functional with the sub. I've set my delay based on my other WiiM devices and tweaked a little bit by ear. Gotta set the output voltage, pre-gain, and gain limits by ear -- I have mine set so that my mains and the sub sound best at identical volume levels. Once they're grouped in the app everything tracks together, albeit with the occasional fat-finger that can get the volumes mismatched -- I'm hoping the coming persistent groups feature will help here.

 

[Wiimer]

Whoops - I should have added that I'm thinking of driving the in-room sub with a second WiiM attached to the sub and grouped with the mains for that room (along with whatever other rooms are in the group).

Yes, I have been doing that for a few months now. (I have 2 subs hooked up to the Pro.)

As @Hazenhart said, it is not easy to adjust, but I am happy with the current sound. (It is not perfect yet, and there is still room for improvement.)


Hopefully the team's post here will come to fruition in the near future.

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