WiiM Ultra: Happy Camper still fumbling some with the UI/App and EQ use...

[motleypixel]

Skip down to ****if you want to just understand my "fumbling/confusion"...

Hi folks, new user and first time owner of a WiiM Ultra here. I went from a very eclectic stack of discrete components on a custom mini rack I made from walnut and maple to now just a WiiM and my SMSL CD Transport sitting atop. I'll try and share a before and after in this post. My amp is now sitting out of site but still accessible when necessary, it along with the WiiM Ultra and CD Transport all powered on together from a wall switch via a power conditioner strip.

First I did a sub to mains sync (there was a 13ms delta). Then, before I even started listening to music I did a baseline REW sweep using my Umik-1 connected to my PC with PC sound card cal file and horz. cal file for the microphone. Running RCA from the PC to the line in of the WiiM. I'm pushing two NHT SuperOnes (orig. OGs from the 90's) alone with a DefTech Super Cube II active sub via LFE (sub vol at 40%). I have my amp (Fosi Audio BT30D Pro using a 48VDC ps with tone controls flat and volume at about 8 of 10) using the WiiM for volume control. I ran the sweep in stereo all speakers at a SPL of 75 dB(C) S for the baseline. I then did a number of RC runs until I found what I liked (it really does a good job between 30-600hz which most of my correction was needed. So now I have one PEQ that I use but this is where I'm "fumbling", allow me to explain...

My use cases are: Listening from: Optical in (CD), Wifi (streaming Pandora or connecting to my PC's flac library via PlexAmp), or Phono In). I removed HDMI from the list as I don't use this input atm. Then I send the signal to 1 of 3 destinations: 1. Passive 2.1 Speaker system. 2. Wired open back headphones. 3. Bluetooth headphones.

****Here's my confusion: When I listen to ANY input via passive speaker system I only want to use the PEQ I created. But when I listen to ANY headphones I want to use a custom EQ only. Right now this doesn't seem intuitive to me. On the Devices tab I have to click the gear icon, go down to EQ and select OR there are other places at times I can access such as when streaming from my PC via PlexAmp the vertical ellipse dots brings up a menu to select EQ setting.

Is there as way to permanently set PEQ for RCA out (which goes to my amp and onto my speakers) and EQ when headphones or Bluetooth out are used?

Or, is there user error going on here I'm missing?

Thank you,
Roy

 

[Burnside]

Use smart presets for each scenario: https://faq.wiimhome.com/en/support...-how-to-use-smart-preset-in-the-wiim-home-app

You can change inputs, outputs, volume, EQ etc and switch between each setup at a touch of the remote preset buttons

 

[motleypixel]

Use smart presets for each scenario: https://faq.wiimhome.com/en/support...-how-to-use-smart-preset-in-the-wiim-home-app

You can change inputs, outputs, volume, EQ etc and switch between each setup at a touch of the remote preset buttons

Ah fantastic, thank you Burnside. All good except I guess there's not output option for BT and sub source option such as streaming service. In this case when I select a new preset called CD Speakers, I listen to CD's over my system speakers along with the PEQ, nice! Then if I select CD Headphones, it uses the headphone out and the custom EQ I made for my headphones. But if I want to go to my Sony XM4s over BT then that's an extra step. Also, I have a Streaming (wifi in) to speakers and headphones but would nice if I could set a custom sub wifi source such as Pandora or PlexAmp for my local flac music.

All that's left now is to figure out why "often" my BT to my Sony XM-4s work great for a while then become terrible with jitter/garble etc. Humm?

Thanks,
Roy

 

[Burnside]

Smart presets are relatively new so you could always raise a feature request ticket thru the more/feedback section in the WiiM app to ask then to extend them to include the features you mention.

You can preset content at various points in the WiiM app, then edit that preset for a particular output, EQ etc - it won’t bring up the Pandora or Plex page in the app, but it will start playing the preset content from those sources when you select the preset.

 

[Mr Ee]

And, I didn't think eq applied to bluetooh output.

 

[Burnside]

And, I didn't think eq applied to bluetooh output.

Good point, I may have glossed over that