I was actually considering this setup anyway - have the Onkyo at fixed volume & use the Wiim remote to adjust volume. Am going to be connecting my cd player via RCA and my TV via optical to the Wiim anyway, so that could work
That would be ok if the DAC in the Wiim is better than the CD Player.
Would be better if you had the Ultra as that would allow you to use high pass/subwoofer pre out. Although still not ideal it's sort of a bodge. A new integrated amp with high pass/subwoofer pre out would be better in some ways. Ideally one with subwoofer delay since you are lacking that. In other words a avr or av pre amp.
Wiim Amp pro could be one option.
Another could be a seperate high pass box, like outlaw icbm-1
I'm using high pass
Source---> pre amp---->outlaw icbm-1---->power amp---->speakers
outaw icbm1----> antimode---->subwoofer