WiiM Amp and Klipsch Heresy I

[jpy]

We're making Spain our primary residence. The one thing I wanted to bring from U.S. were my Heresy's.

They finally made through customs and I need a new entertainment console, but a quick listen, they're quite change from the Triangle BR03's.

I'll also need time with PEQ settings, but my initial guess isn't bad.

 

[Deleted member 29222]

Welcome to the group!

Is it true that the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plane?

 

[jpy]

the new entertainment center arrived and the Heresy's are in place and I'm continuing to adjust the PEQ settings, think I'm close.

 

[jpy]

We're making Spain our primary residence. The one thing I wanted to bring from U.S. were my Heresy's.

They finally made through customs and I need a new entertainment console, but a quick listen, they're quite change from the Triangle BR03's.

I'll also need time with PEQ settings, but my initial guess isn't bad.

I think all components are in place:

Living Room: WiiM Pro > Fosi V3 Monoblocks > Klipsch Heresy I's

Office: WiiM Amp > Triangle BR03's

 

[JasonWithWiiM]

Now that is a proper setup.

Welcome to the party, and congratulations on getting the Heresy speakers settled in after the move. That Living Room chain looks like a lot of fun:

WiiM Pro > Fosi V3 Monoblocks > Klipsch Heresy I

And moving the WiiM Amp over to the Triangle BR03s in the office feels like a great second life for that setup too.

The Heresy speakers definitely have their own personality, so I’d be curious where you land with the PEQ after living with them for a bit. Sometimes the best part is the slow tuning process after everything is finally in place.

Great looking setup, and welcome properly into the WiiM + Klipsch club.

 

[jpy]

The Heresy speakers definitely have their own personality, so I’d be curious where you land with the PEQ after living with them for a bit. Sometimes the best part is the slow tuning process after everything is finally in place.

it is a slow evolution in tuning, but below is the current settings.

this was somewhat influenced by watching Gladiator 2 last night, but where I think I might ultimately land is a few different graphs; low volume music, normal volume music and movie.

 

[BMeek]

I think all components are in place:

Living Room: WiiM Pro > Fosi V3 Monoblocks > Klipsch Heresy I's

Office: WiiM Amp > Triangle BR03's

Nice!

I'm curious if/how you're routing audio from the TV through your WiiM Pro living room system. I suspect the setup is mainly about music, but with the right settings, some WiiM devices can process DD5.1 surround and nicely blend the center channel audio stream into a "phantom center" across your front mains. I do this with my HDMI-connected WiiM Ultra - it's impressive and automaticly switches from my default linked 2.1 + 2.0 stereo music config into a 4.1 DD5.1 surround sound setup.

I don't know if the WiiM Pro can receive an optical stream from your TV and process DD5.1 in the same way as my Ultra with its HDMI input. I'm also not sure if a standalone WiiM Ultra in a 2.1-channel setup can be told to decode DD5.1 simply to create the 'phantom center speaker' across the mains. When I dissolve the speaker group, the Ultra reports playing 1536kkbps Dolby Audio (AC3), but there's no indication its decoding the 5.1 stream and doing the standard center-channel mix-down across the mains.

 

[jpy]

Nice!

I'm curious if/how you're routing audio from the TV through your WiiM Pro living room system.

SPDIF Optical from the TV to the WiiM Pro, but I assume I can also use HDMI, but when I first used the WiiM Amp a couple years ago, the HDMI would always trigger to turn on and use the WiiM for sound, regardless of the settings. I assume this has been corrected, but I continue to use optical.

I suspect the setup is mainly about music, but with the right settings, some WiiM devices can process DD5.1 surround and nicely blend the center channel audio stream into a "phantom center" across your front mains. I do this with my HDMI-connected WiiM Ultra - it's impressive and automaticly switches from my default linked 2.1 + 2.0 stereo music config into a 4.1 DD5.1 surround sound setup.

You suspected correctly, the setup is mainly for music and while I do watch movies through the system, I don't think surround sound is in my future.

Sounds like you have a really nice setup.

I don't know if the WiiM Pro can receive an optical stream from your TV and process DD5.1 in the same way as my Ultra with its HDMI input. I'm also not sure if a standalone WiiM Ultra in a 2.1-channel setup can be told to decode DD5.1 simply to create the 'phantom center speaker' across the mains. When I dissolve the speaker group, the Ultra reports playing 1536kkbps Dolby Audio (AC3), but there's no indication its decoding the 5.1 stream and doing the standard center-channel mix-down across the mains.

I have little to no experience with surround, but my understanding is that WiiM Pro as a standalone device is stereo only.

 

[BMeek]

SPDIF Optical from the TV to the WiiM Pro, but I assume I can also use HDMI, but when I first used the WiiM Amp a couple years ago, the HDMI would always trigger to turn on and use the WiiM for sound, regardless of the settings. I assume this has been corrected, but I continue to use optical.


You suspected correctly, the setup is mainly for music and while I do watch movies through the system, I don't think surround sound is in my future.

Sounds like you have a really nice setup.


I have little to no experience with surround, but my understanding is that WiiM Pro as a standalone device is stereo only.

Understood ;-). In the unlikely event you find yourself missing dialogue while watching TV, you might find improvement with a WiiM Ultra upgrade and this 'surround feature'.

For quick grins I connected an optical line from a TV in my loft to the WiiM Pro to see how it behaves on the latest firmware. With the Pro's optical input, playing either stereo or DD5.1 source media, the WiiM app offered no detail about the audio stream format or sample/bit-rate as it does on the Ultra (whether or not the Pro was master of a speaker group).

I hope you love life in Spain.

 

[jpy]

For quick grins I connected an optical line from a TV in my loft to the WiiM Pro to see how it behaves on the latest firmware. With the Pro's optical input, playing either stereo or DD5.1 source media, the WiiM app offered no detail about the audio stream format or sample/bit-rate as it does on the Ultra (whether or not the Pro was master of a speaker group).

Here's my limited understanding

The S/PDIF protocol doesn't require that source devices provide the metadata that describes the bit depth and sampling rate and apparently a lot devices either don't provide it, or provide incorrect data.

Without the metadata, the stream would have to be analyzed. I don't follow the details, but determine actual bit depth by analyzing the stream is problematic.

Generally, when I see the optical detail in the WiiM app for the WiiM Pro I only see 'LPCM', no details, but I did see detail that showed up while watching a show on the Netflix app on a Samsung TV (see screenshot), but it doesn't show up consistently.

Long story short, I suspect the problem has more to do with the source device, opposed to the WiiM Pro.

 

[jpy]

Generally, when I see the optical detail in the WiiM app for the WiiM Pro I only see 'LPCM', no details, but I did see detail that showed up while watching a show on the Netflix app on a Samsung TV (see screenshot), but it doesn't show up consistently.

I believe that the bit depth and sample rate that I'm sometimes seeing for the S/PDIF optical are the numbers from the last music streamed from Ethernet.