Upgraded from WiiM mini to Pro and now Ultra. Optical out now turns off. This is an upgrade?

[HansD-NL]

Can you understand my frustration? mini and pro worked fine in my setup. Ultra does not. Sure it's a better component. But that line of code to turn off optical output in the Ultra despite standby being disabled is a problem for me.

Yes I understand your frustration but you started by saying: "I am questioning this being the flagship streamer now, when upgrading means a pretty big downgrade in user experience.".
And that is not fair, it's your situation, because of your Chord DAC.

 

[Mr Ee]

So, my rme does have an OFF option for auto standby so that it will stay on with no signal / user action.
Does the Chord have such a setting somewhere?