Wiim Ultra with external DAC: what output?

[Valentino]

If you have noticed such a behaviour you should raise a ticket through the WiiM Home app, @wkamil.

 

[DG77]

Have any of you who connected an external DAC encountered a situation where, in the case of an SPDIF connection (both optical and coaxial), in the high frequency range you could hear some artifacts, distortions, or irregular hissing? They cannot be heard from a distance, but they are clearly audible up close. In the case of a USB connection, this does not happen. I also connected another source (CD player) via spdif to rule out a problem with the DAC and here the sound is absolutely clear.

Strange if you can not hear it from a distance but from closeby?
Are you sure you are just not listening to close to the tweeter and hearing those high frequencies?

I actually have a setup where my Ultra is connected to an external DAC via SPDIF, and the sound is a bit "harsher" compared to the built in DAC in my Active Speakers, but on the other hand I gain a lot of extra control and a Sub-Out so still using it

 

[slartibartfast]

Strange if you can not hear it from a distance but from closeby?
Are you sure you are just not listening to close to the tweeter and hearing those high frequencies?

I actually have a setup where my Ultra is connected to an external DAC via SPDIF, and the sound is a bit "harsher" compared to the built in DAC in my Active Speakers, but on the other hand I gain a lot of extra control and a Sub-Out so still using it

I was assuming he meant with nothing playing and his ear to the speaker.

 

[multibit]

Its all down to the device being used , it's one of those things you have to try yourself and compare . For me with my kit I much prefer USB out

 

[wkamil]

I thought it was obvious that these distortions were heard from the tweeters since I mentioned high frequencies Interestingly, I can only hear them when the wiim is playing music, when I pause it there is silence in the speakers. And the funniest thing is that I have just switched the output from USB to SPDIF and now (after I sent the report in the home app) there are no distortions

 

[Saponetto]

Not at all... after some USB vs. Optical tests, I managed to use exclusively the optical out to feed my DAC.
Did you test it via coaxial also?