Unable to synchronize WiiM Pro Plus with WiiM Pro

[delicatedonkey]

Hello,

I'm trying to synchronize a WiiM Pro Plus with a WiiM Pro, however I'm not succesful. Setting up the synchronization between the two is straightforward, but I get no audio from the WiiM Pro when synchronizing to the WiiM Pro Plus. What am I missing?

 

[Brantome]

By synchronisation, I presume you mean linking into a group. Can you please post screenshots of the devices page in the app, and detail which outputs you are using for each WiiM and what source audio you are trying to play?

 

[delicatedonkey]

Thanks for your reply, @Brantome. That's indeed what I meant.
I think I found the issue, I was trying to link a WiiM Pro Plus with a WiiM Pro while playing from a "Roon Ready" audio source. This was unsuccesful. I tried it with "Tidal Connect" as an audio source and linking both in a group was working as expected.
I assume you can't link "Roon Ready" audio sources using the WiiM app.

 

[Brantome]

Thanks for your reply, @Brantome. That's indeed what I meant.
I think I found the issue, I was trying to link a WiiM Pro Plus with a WiiM Pro while playing from a "Roon Ready" audio source. This was unsuccesful. I tried it with "Tidal Connect" as an audio source and linking both in a group was working as expected.
I assume you can't link "Roon Ready" audio sources using the WiiM app.

I’d expect you’d need to group such in Roon itself, as what in effect you’re asking is for a Linkplay group to be Roon Ready which I guess won’t have been certified.

 

[delicatedonkey]

That sounds plausible. I have the impression a Linkplay group is better in sync than a Roon (Ready) group. A Yamaha MusicCast group works flawlessly, but Roon doesn't know a thing about Yamaha MusicCast.

what in effect you’re asking is for a Linkplay group to be Roon Ready which I guess won’t have been certified.

That could be a nice feature.

 

[Smartplug]

Does using dac with built in preamp like most dac being sold loose a resolution? Should be used in conjunction with passive volume?

 

[Mr Ee]

Does using dac with built in preamp like most dac being sold loose a resolution? Should be used in conjunction with passive volume?

Digital vs analog volume control?
From my attempts at informed reading (i.e. not people's opinions on forums like this (but maybe this post is just another opinion...)) then digital attenuation done well has no such issues, at least for a quite respectable range of attenuation, and analog attenuation will always introduce more distortion than digital.
Whether said distortion is a good or bad thing, in terms of liking the resulting sound, is another matter.

Back to losing resolution, seeing as most dacs can probably only resolve 20 (maybe 21 at a push?) bits, I wonder whether any potential loss in those last few bits matters at all?

Edit: having replied, I scrolled up to the top of the page and saw the thread topic.
Waaay off topic. Sorry. But I didn't start it

 

[Smartplug]

• Configurable ASRC and fixed sample rate to eliminate the pop noise for specific external DAC (5/30)

Where is this update?