WiSA HT Surround Hub
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Description
WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X is essensially a wireless audio preamplifier. As a digital, lossless surround system with everything inside, it can offer all capabilities of a traditional AV-receiver. The Surround Hub can seamlessly connect to a variety of audio sources, including turntables, Blu-Ray players, game consoles, CDs, and more, serving as a bridge between these sources and WiSA HT-enabled speakers for playback.
As the control center for your entire system, the wireless audio preamplifier offers an enormous variety of connections. It contains HDMI switching, decoding, streaming and various audio inputs. And, it comes with a 2-way RF smart-remote with full control and feedback, allowing you to hide away the Surround Hub. It is conveniently controlled using the aluminum remote control supplied.
There are two versions of the WiSA Surround Hub, both featuring immersive surround formats from Dolby Atmos in 5.1.2 format. The WiSA Surround Hub X includes both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X decoding up to 5.1.2 formats.
WiSA HT Certified
The WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X will connect with any WiSA HT certified speaker on the market. Since WiSA HT protocol is a lossless transport, working up to 24bits/96kHz, the device takes advantage of the digital nature of the transport enabling a package of internal digital signal processing (DSP). The DSP is lossless at 32bits/96kHz, to ensure no degradation of audio quality is introduced.
Specifically-chosen Enclosure Material
The enclosure material for the WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X is specifically chosen, to allow a strong and stable mechanical strength, combined with maximized wireless signal quality from the device – no metal housing is used, to ensure optimal internal working conditions.
Advanced DSP Core
The WiSA HT device features a premium level decoding DSP inside. It is capable of handling decoding of immersive surround for Dolby Atmos 5.1.2 and DTS:X 5.1.2 (Surround Hub X only). It supports upmixing any content to multichannel playback, utilizing all the speaker channels connected.
Features
The wireless audio preamplifier also features an accessible DSP-core, for which we have a system in the works. This will allow users to access it freely and adapt the system to personal preference. It comes with automated features and manual features, which allows anything from out-of-the-box easy setup up to expert level of manual adaptation. Your skill level is the limit of how well you can get the system to work.
Streaming
The WiSA HT device supports a wide range of streaming services like:
- Google ChromeCast
- AirPlay 2
- Spotify Connect and Spotify Hi-Fi (when launched)
- DLNA
- Bluetooth 5.2
- Tidal Connect
Cabled ethernet and Wi-Fi network
The WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X offers both Wi-Fi and ethernet connection for network access. The device will automatically prioritize cabled network connection over Wi-Fi in case both are used. Using ethernet connection is recommended where possible, as it ensures the most stable streaming experience.
Smart-remote
The system comes with a delicate aluminum 2-way RF smart remote, which essentially replaces the need for an on-product display and allows you to hide away the WiSA HT Surround Hub. The remote has live visual indications for the essential functions – and it enables the on-screen display of the device. It also allows you to control the playback of your streaming.
Hi-resolution playback
The optical inputs support hi-resolution playback up to 24bits/192kHz. Any DSP-feature applied in the DSP-core will be applied to these inputs as well as any other input.
HDMI
The WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X comes with 3x HDMI 2.0b inputs and 1x HDMI (eARC/ARC) output. This allows you to connect your TV and up to 3 HDMI sources directly with the WiSA HT Surround Hub. The desired HDMI input will automatically be chosen and shown on your TV. You can adjust the volume from your TV remote, eliminating the need for manually operating the device for TV playback. The WiSA HT Surround Hub supports 2-channel and multichannel PCM audio, as well as any surround format from Dolby or DTS (DTS only for version Surround Hub X).
Analog line input
The WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X has a stereo analog line input with phono connectors. The analog input circuitry of the Surround Hub is using a fully balanced Analog to Digital converter, converting the analog signal to 24bits/96kHz directly at the input sockets – allowing as pure a path as possible. After converted to digital PCM audio, the signal is treated with equal respect as the digital inputs. The line input supports voltages up to 2.5Vrms. This limitation in input voltage is there to optimize the performance of the analog playback.
Power supply
The WiSA Surround Hub / Surround Hub X is powered by an external DC power supply, simply to secure optimum working conditions for the product. The absence of high-voltage AC power in the product secures that signals are kept free from humming or magnetically induced noise from power transformers or converters. It is a clean DC powered device, optimized to get the most out of the precious audio signals fed into the device. Once the audio is digitized, we treat it with the respect it requires to leave the device again in perfect shape. This is what we mean by lossless reproduction.
FAQs
How many channels the Surround Hub / Surround Hub X can work for?
The hub works for 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.2, 5.1, 5.1, 5.1.2, 7.0, 7.1. If you have 2 subwoofers, they will be put under the same "channel", meaning they will react as one sub, but have the power and output as two.
How can I switch between using the hub for movies with eArc HDMI and using only stereo (turntable, WiFi, optical) for music, specifically selecting between stereo 2.0 or 2.1?
With the hub, it is easy to swap between stereo and surround mode. There is a "direct" setting, which just runs the native format of the incoming audio to the output, so if inout is stereo, output is stereo. If input is Dolby Atmos, the output will be Dolby Atmos.
This direct mode of the Surround Hub / Surround Hub X is automatic or I can choose in the app or romote control?
The hub will switch automatically based on the native format received from the input source. Meaningly, if you have a 5.1 setup but the input audo is stereo, then the format will be played as stereo through your speakers. However, you can also manually make changes to your setup - using a menu we have on the playpage called "Signal mixing". If this is set to Direct Mode, the system will automatically decide the format type as above mentioned, but here you can also choose:
- Auto Select (the device chooses based on speaker setup and input source)
- Stereo (2.0 or 2.1)
- Dolby Music (Surround system setup with Dolby decoding, focused on music - it takes your amount of speakers into account)
- Dolby Movie (Surround system setup with Dolby decoding - it takes your amount of speakers into account)
- DTS (only available for Surround Hub X model)
Is this possible to connect a soundbar to the Surround Hub / Surround Hub X? Or does the soundbar work as a transmitter only and cannot pair to another hub?
It is possible to connect a soundbar to the hub as long as this is also WiSA HT certified. Our Milan soundbar in this case will not work as that is WiSA DS certified - a different protocal.
The Milan soundbar has a built-in transmitter so with a 5.1.4 Milan system, there is no need for an extra hub. Keep in mind what WiSA protocal is implemented.