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WiiM Pro AirPlay 2 Receiver, Chromecast Audio, WiFi Multiroom Streamer, Compatible with Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, Stream Hi-Res Audio from Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal and More

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Kindle Customer

Feature rich streamer with an above-average DAC and a solid sound quality

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro PlusVerified Purchase

Using the WiiM Pro Plus as a primary sound source in an office environment. I’m using the WiiM Home App or alternatively the Tidal Connect link using Tidal’s app. The WiiM unfolds MQA on Tidal for a perceptibly clearer and more dynamic sound. The WiiM Pro Plus sits on a shelf above my dedicated headphone amplifier — a Schist Ragnarok — and plays music through a set of Audeze LCD-2 headphones that I’ve had for years. I’m using my iPad as a control device (either the WiiM Home app or Tidal app) while I do actual work on my iMac.

I’ve only had this for a couple of days, so I don’t have anything to say about reliabiiity or long-term listening fatigue. I CAN say that I’m finding the sound quality much better than I feared. My primary listening system uses very high-quality audiophile gear that I’ve painstakingly acquired to achieve great sound. The DAC alone is more than 10 times more expensive than the WiiM, and my electrostatic speakers are over $10,000 these days. So I’m used to good sound. That said, the WiiM Pro Plus is a simply OUTSTANDING deal. I’m not doing any critical listening, but I’m quite happy with my new office music partner.

Setup was trivial, although the instructions were either too simple or too complex. The only quick-setup guide was for the hand-held remote, and that’s sending me to a device menu buried in the user interface. The full 40-page manual can be downloaded, and poking around will reveal the performance, hook-up, and features that are quite impressive (10-band equalizer, for instance, or the ability to sync multiple units together for whole-house sound, as examples). For my super-simple office application it was major overkill.

I use Roon at home, and Tidal. The WiiM Home App works mostly intuitively, although there are a lot of features and capabilities that might be important to those who like to play with their food rather than just eat it. There are a lot of ways to use this streamer, including as a simple streamer into a DAC of your choice if you don’t like the built-in upgraded AKC DAC that is the “Plus” part of the WiiM Pro Plus package.

At the moment this is not “Roon-Ready” but the previous experience with the WiiM Pro model suggests that it should become RAAT certified in a couple months or so. The WiiM shows up on my Roon app as a Squeezebox Lite unit, which is better-sounding than Chromecast or Airplay. I’ve tried mine with 3 different control maps: 1) the WiiM App, which you need to run at least occasionally to keep track of over-the-air updates (I’ve had 3 so far and I’ve had it less than a week). 2) Tidal Connect let’s you cast your phone Tidal through the WiiM where it will connect to your account and run the highest bit-rate supported, depending on what your Tidal plan supports. I’m using the top plan and the high-res + MQA sound quality is best so far. 3) You can run it as a Roon end point player, although not yet certified. When it does get certified, that is likely to be the best-sounding option, giving you the most control of your music.

The WiiM app purportedly lets you play your own music if you have it online in your network someplace. I tried linking one of my music folders and it kinda worked, but got very draggy and slow. It’s like teaching a dog to dance… it’s amazing it can do that, much less do it well.

Overall I’m very pleased with my purchase, the great development team behind it and the terrific value it represents in terms of sound quality and capabilities at this price point. Highly recommended.

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PTM

Perfect for my needs

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023

Style: WiiM ProVerified Purchase

This was the perfect addition to my 2.0 home-office stereo. Easy to install, intuitive app, decent DAC, great sound quality, good price – especially when on sale.
I stream mostly Amazon Music content and play CDs using the WiiM DAC. My home-office is about 12’x13′ and I sometimes play the music pretty loud without hearing any distortion. I mostly keep the eq preset to either flat or acoustic.
I use my universal CD, SACD, DVD-A, DVD player as transport and run an optical cable to the WiiM. The only digital format the WiiM can’t convert to analog is DSD so, the SACDs have to be played from the player to the receiver. I’ve noticed that I like the WiiM’s DAC better than the universal player’s DAC, it is about 10 years newer, after all.
I was skeptical that I’d be able to hear differences between streaming bluetooth from my phone or tablet, ethernet from the WiiM, using the CD player DAC, or using the CD player as a transport run the signal through the WiiM DAC. I guess that my hearing is better than I thought, because the difference is there – sometimes subtle, yes – and I can hear it.
I don’t spend my limited money on esoteric equipment or cables. I overdo my research to find high value items when it comes to A/V, and this is a high value item. I’m buying a couple WiiM minis for other areas of the house, but I wanted one to be hardwired with a Cat5e cable.

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Win

Very good budget streamer that work well with Roon

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro PlusVerified Purchase

This streamer has worked well feeding a Chord Hugo 2 via coax. It was quickly recognized by Roon after going though one update via it’s Android app.. It sounds really good to me. Despite one false start when the app got confused by trying to update again, the app worked remarkably well to help me increase the quality of the coax stream, after selecting coax as the preferred output. The company that makes this streamer/dac obviously spent some time making an app that works quite well, something that many stereo manufacturers have fallen down on. I use an ethernet connection as always to ensure a consistent high quality stream from a very nice music server made by Small Green Computer.

This streamer/dac replaces a Zen Stream that served me well for a few years until failing recently. That unit would start up OK then stop working while not being recognized by Roon anymore.
It had great build quality for the money and sounded great until it failed. That unit had no dac..

There are now a number of options in the streamer/dac category around $500 or less. It doesn’t cost a lot to produce a small computer based streamer/dac that sounds good. This WiiM unit is a great bargain that I recommend. We’ll see how well it works over time. The Bluesound Node and Cambridge Audio MX10 are both good options that cost twice as much and may well offer even better quality sound. But the WiiM Pro seems to work really well for those people looking to spend less.

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Amazing streamer

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2023

Style: WiiM ProVerified Purchase

I made the Ian Canada raspberry pi streamer and was in love with the sound. One of the best but the software sucks. Thought I would try the WiiM pro as I want to review in my YouTube channel. Fast to set up and updated immediately. App is easy to use and works with Amazon music which is a blessing to say the least. The internal dac is acceptable but not the best. I used coax out and optical out to my Schiit Bifrost dac to my musical fidelity m3si and the sound was great. No dropouts at all. Good sound for the price. Purchased a second one during Amazon prime days. While not the highest end in sound the app makes up for it. Anyone can use this and be happy. Wish they would make with higher end reclocker inside with oxco clocks. Also the app needs to work on the iPhone like the streaming app do. Normally music apps run and I can control with my iPhone locked so I can simply hit next track or adjust volume. Perhaps an upgrade would help the app.

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Johnno

Very impressive although the software that will make this device the pro version isn’t finished

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro with Voice RemoteVerified Purchase

Not tested: Multi-room setup as I only have the one device
Not tested: All music streaming services.
Not tested: How well it works locally when the Internet is down.
Not tested: Optical or Coaxial digital out
Not tested: Line in

This device looks cheap, because it is. It is however very impressive what this device can do.

I came across the device after I searched to find anything that would support streaming ad-hoc audio into it via Bluetooth, AirPlay and Chromecast Audio and this was what I found. So before testing the streaming music services I tried out all of these features.

They all worked, and by having them all integrated into one device and with the unit treating the last person to connect *and* start to play content as the source. There is no need to switch inputs as would be the case for separate devices for each protocol.

Bluetooth:
As a mini computer, one cool feature about the Bluetooth implementation is that it will rename the advertised name of the device with the name you give it. Most dedicated Bluetooth receivers don’t allow this and instead users must set aliases in each device. Interestingly enough the device can also output over Bluetooth too (though the input must not be bluetooth in this case). So even if all you owned output wise was a Bluetooth speaker say with no line-in or away from this unit you can convert it to an Airplay, Chromecast and streaming device by hiding this box away somewhere.
Only the SBC and AAC codecs are supported but streaming from and Android Phone and an iPad worked well.
When playing Bluetooth content, where supported the WiiM Home app will show the track title plus and bitrate albeit with the DLNA logo instead of a bluetooth or codec logo. Track skip, pause/play buttons work from the app, the unit and the remote.

Airplay: This worked fine from an iPad Pro and Macbook Pro. When playing from Apple Music, the skip track features worked. The display was incorrect for the first track just showing that Air Play was in use, but when the second track started playing then the track name and album art appeared. Changing album caused the text detail to change but the album art shown in WiiM home Mac Os App got stuck permanently. The same happened in the Android app but restarting fixed it. The iOS app correctly updated album art. The Android app may update the top widget but not the lower one. So the apps are pretty buggy in correctly showing what’s playing.

Chromecast Audio: I tested this both from an Android phone, within streaming apps where the WiiM Pro would pull the content from the Internet but also where with the ‘Cast screen to device’ option which works fine for audio only. I also tried the in app casting option from Youtube running in Chrome on a Mac and this worked too.

Having these 3 options available at a party, local pub or performance venue (say for a backing track) would make it easy for a person with a phone to cast their music without having to download any particular app or have the correct cable which I think is a came changer.

The auto source switching also works on the line-in input, so legacy things like CD players or hipster record players (via a photo pre-amp) would work well with this device being the permanent input to a power amp, as simply playing a new source will switch to it, without people having to be technically minded about source selection. The input source is shown hidden away at the bottom of the ‘Browse’ screen in the app. It would be nice if the main LED would change colour for different input sources as although with the remote there is a source select button, there is no way to see which source is selected on the unit itself.

DNLA (UPnP) Render Device From Bubble UPnP:
This worked correctly with the art display, track skip etc all working too. I doubt many people even know this is a thing but it is a tech for streaming content over a LAN.

Local content direct from WiiM Home App:
I could play local media from the app directly (This is DNLA under the hood)

Streaming Services:

Spotify worked well. Tn this case the integration is done between the WiiM Home app and the Spotify app and uses ‘Spotify Connect’ as the protocol. This worked at first via an Android phone but could get into a state where both the Spotify app and the WiiM Home app thought the content was playing via the WiiM Home showing the track name etc, but the sound was coming out of the phone speaker. It was possible to switch to Chromecast Audio (called Google Cast in Spotify) within the Spotify app to hear the sound.
Rebooting the device fixed that, and the reboot can be done in the WiiM Home App.

Exiting the Spotify app then worked as expected and the WiiM Pro app kept showing which track was playing and allowed to skip etc.

If choosing to use Chromecast Audio instead of Spotify Connect, then all the functions worked too with the WiiM pro advancing through the playlist etc.

Youtube Music is not supported other than via Chromecast Audio (or Bluetooth), and unlike Spotify there is no launcher shortcut from the WiiM Home app. The WiiM home app does correctly show the name and album art. This of course includes all instances of the app on all platforms.

SoundCloud supported getting an OAuth token for the device to talk to sound cloud directly. This meant that the WiiM Home app could search content without having to use the Soundcloud app. The app offered search just within Soundcloud which was nice and the global (cross streaming services) search worked too.

Amazon music worked, with search etc working.

So streaming service direct integration is one place where this unit lacks. It can’t do what a Sonos can do and aggregate searches across all streaming services because not all are fully integrated. I bet however that most people don’t want that. They don’t want to use a custom app and would rather use the native app of each streaming service.

Local music collection on NAS:
Here is where the unit is missing the features of Sonos. You can browse content on a NAS which supports DNLA but that is it. It can’t index it or anything else. It does not support SMB.

Summary:
This device is a modern take on a home music streaming system and the feature set implemented is that which most new users will want. Having at least 5 ways to stream content from a native phone app (Airplay, Chromecast Audio, Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, DLNA) if you have a phone in your hand and want to play music out to a HiFi on any legacy powered speaker connected to this this it will work.

Streaming service *deep* integration is somewhat secondary and therefore so is streaming service aggregation. This won’t be a problem for most people as they will use the streaming service app directly as that is what they are used to when buying a device like this for the first time. They won’t want to learn a new app. Only people with systems like a Sonos will know what this is, so if it doesn’t sound important to you, then don’t worry about it.

Streaming from a NAS is missing in action.

It looks like the Pro might add some of the missing features and that will help distinguish it from the Mini.
I don’t own a mini. At present the main advantages of the Pro appear to be:

* Chromecast Audio
* Wired Ethernet
* Optical line in (may be good from a CD/DVD player or TV set top box – I doubt AC3 pass through is a thing)
* Some other features listed on the WiiM website

So in buying a pro, you are sort of paying for the development of features that don’t yet exist as although the hardware is much better, it may not be fully utilised yet. Sometimes buying the better hardware is also worth it as the device may last longer before being considered to puny for the next big popular service.

I am happy as I wanted the Chromecast Audio support.

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S. Jacques

Un excellent choix pour écouter de la musique dématérialisée en qualité audiophile!

Reviewed in France on October 25, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro PlusVerified Purchase

Qu’est-ce qui peut pousser à plus de 65 ans, posséder plusieurs centaines de vinyles et de cd, à passer à la musique dématérialisée ? La curiosité peut-être ? Personnellement, je me suis aperçu que ces dernières années j’achetais de moins en moins de disques ; je ne sais pas pourquoi et en même temps envie d’écouter toujours plus de musique. Je restais donc le plus souvent à écouter mes vieux trucs . J’ai pris connaissance de ces appareils de streaming un peu par hasard en voyant une pub de la marque française Octavio. Je m’y suis intéressé et approfondi mes recherches et réfléchi sur ce dont j’avais besoin. Et ce Linkplay WiiM pro plus (amélioration du pro tout court) conçu aux USA a eu ma faveur. Un peu plus cher que le modèle français, plus esthétique et avec une télécommande, il semblait plus correspondre à mon cahier de charges. J’ai transformé mon abonnement Amazon Prime en Unlimited (pour avoir les albums complet et non dans le désordre avec des morceaux d’autres artistes qui viennent comme un cheveu dans la soupe). Pour 10,99 euros par mois ça me semble honnête. Donc……
Le produit est sobre tout en restant esthétique, léger mais à priori solide même si ce n’est que du pastique dur. Les bords sont arrondis et les touches digitales à l’avant donnent une petite note « appareil hifi ». Je l’ai installé sur mon dac, en prenant soin d’y rajouter des petits plots en plastique pour éviter une éventuelle surchauffe. La télécommande est petite et sympathique, on en reparlera. Le coffret comprend une usb/secteur pour l’alimentation, un câble optique et un RCA……que je n’ai même pas essayés vu l’aspect basique. Il faut bien sûr avoir une bonne connexion wifi pour profiter pleinement de cet appareil (fonctionne en BT aussi, mais avec une qualité sonore un cran en dessous). Donc soit le brancher à un câble Ethernet ou le placer pas trop loin de votre box. C’est une contrainte effectivement.
La face avant offre donc 4 touches digitales de couleurs orangée volume + et -, pause, preset d’albums favoris (que 12). Une led blanche ou verte selon la source wifi ou bluetooth. L’arrière est plus intéressant avec: 1 sortie et 1 entré ligne, 1 entrée et une sortie optique, une sortie coaxiale (triggrer et LAN je ne sais toujours pas à qui ça sert!). L’alimentation est par USB et on peut regretter l’absence de touche Power pour le prix. Ce qui oblige soit à laisser l’appareil en mode standby soit débrancher l’USB. Je l’ai branché sur une barrette avec interrupteur et si je veux l’arrêter je passe par là. Une connectique assez rassurante même si on peut aussi regretter l’absence du plaquage doré sur les fiches RCA.
La télécommande, une fois appairée, offre les possibilités essentielles : power, pause,volume (intéressant si comme moi vous avez un vieil ampli sans télécommande), changement de plage avant/arrière, muet, 4 boutons pour 4 pré-selections (sur les 12…pour moi inutile j’aurais préféré peut être une mémorisation d’équaliseurs), le changement de source et la possibilité d’utiliser la commande vocale pour Chromecast (si vous avez plusieurs appareils) ou Alexa, dont je ne me sers pas. A savoir que toutes ces fonctions sont pilotables à partir de l’interface WiiM home.

La mise en route est relativement simple, il faut bien évidemment installer l’application WiiM home sur votre portable qui deviendra la tour de contrôle de l’appareil. Avec Amazon unlimited l’interface est relativement agréable, sans plus. Il faut souvent rechercher les albums, vu qu’on peut en mettre que 12 en mémoire ce qui est peu. Et l’écoute est à reprendre si on change de sortie ou d’entrée en cours d’écoute. Des petits désagréments pas rédhibitoires. L’application propose aussi un équaliseur classique 10 bandes et un graphique (là il faut être ingénieur du son!).

A l’intérieur de l’appareil on a un DAC AKM AK4493SEQ dernière génération qui le différencie du Pro qui utilise un Burr-Brown de moindre qualité , un ADC : TI Burr-Brown PCM1861 pour une sortie analogique vers numérique ( pour brancher votre platine analogique par exemple).

Donc si vous souhaitez utilisez cet appareil comme Dac il vaut mieux le Plus. Dans le cas inverse ont verra que ce dac est d’effectivement d’excellente qualité, ce qui permet de varier les écoutes avec son propre dac en aval.

J’utilise exclusivement le WiiM avec ma vielle chaîne hifi, cependant de qualité. Pas avec un téléviseur, ni un home cinéma. C’est d‘ailleurs un des principaux objectifs de ce type d’appareil de pouvoir rendre possible le streaming sur des appareils ancien analogiques.

Pour l’écoute j’ai d’abord utilisé longuement la sortie line out directe (WiiM vers ampli en branchement RCA), pour voir ce que valait la bête d’un point de vue hi-fi. Franchement je n’ai pas été déçu. Le dac intégré est très musical, ne souffre d’aucune limite rédhibitoire tant sur la transparence, la linéarité et l’équilibre spectral, la neutralité des timbres et l’image stéréo. Tous critères que les audiophiles passent en revue. Juste un petit manque de dynamique et de chaleur analogique que j’ai pu constaté en le comparant à mon dac Rega, environ 3,5 fois plus cher. Une musicalité irréprochable donc. Le WiiM peut de ce fait être utilisé comme simple dac économique si vous avez un lecteur cd entrée de gamme ou avec un convertisseur ancien. Ce n’est bien sûr pas sa destination première mais bien complémentaire au streaming. L’entrée peut aussi être optique si vous avez une sortie optique sur votre lecteur. On peut ainsi varier les plaisirs, et c’est ce que j’ai fait en utilisant les 2 sorties optiques et RCA de mon Apollo vers le WiiM et en utilisant les sorties optique et RCA du WiiM vers le dac. On peut ainsi bénéficier de plusieurs qualités d’écoutes en profitant éventuellement juste de l’équaliseur du WiiM en écoutant un cd. Le dac du WiiM est court-circuité si on passe en mode lecteur/WiiM/dac Rega, mais pas l’équalisation. Les audiophiles aiment bien s’amuser avec ces bricolages !
Plus sérieusement la visée audiophile des concepteurs de ce produit est bien atteinte. D’ailleurs le magazine anglais « What hifi » l’a désigné produit de l’année 2023 dans sa catégorie. Le magazine Audio Science Rewiev, avec un essai plus basé sur les mesures objectives que sur les qualités audiophiles, confirme que le ramage se rapporte au plumage (ce qui n’est pas toujours le cas en hi-fi, où on peut avoir de bonnes mesures et une musicalité pas à la hauteur ou l’inverse) : “Le WiiM Pro Plus corrige la plupart des inconvénients du Pro original, le plus important étant les performances globales, et spécifiquement les performances analogiques. C’est peut-être maintenant l’un des meilleurs streamers autonomes de mesure, et certainement le meilleur à ce prix pour l’instant.”
En streaming on peut bien sûr profiter de la qualité musicale maximale Hi-res en 192 KhZ/24 bits qui est la qualité audio maximale pour le moment. Supérieure à la qualité cd, mais franchement c’est…subtil ! Si vous êtes sur Amazon unlimited et avez un système requis vous pouvez bien sûr passer en Dolby Atmos sur certains albums, la dernière trouvaille pour une écoute « atmosphérique » (mais qui n’apporte rien en terme de musicalité par rapport à une écoute classique avec 2 enceintes ou au casque). Donc une qualité « Bit-perfect » capable de décoder un fichier sans y apporter aucune modification.

Conclusion :
Au bout d’un mois d’utilisation je n’ai pas eu de bug notable. La mise en route initiale est un peu longue (avec calcul de l’optimisation de la qualité sonore voulue) mais après ce n‘est que du plaisir d’avoir toute la musique du monde à portée d’oreille ! J’ai juste parfois quelques coupures sur l’écoute en 192 KhZ/24 bits, mais c’est dû à la qualité moyenne de mon réseau wifi qui tourne autour des -60. Les câbles optiques et RCA d’origine doivent être changés. Pour ma part je n’ai pas de câbles coûtant plus de 50 euros.

Donc ce choix fut difficile et voici pourquoi :
– dépendance complète au smartphone ou i-phone…mais c’est bien déjà le cas..toutes générations confondues !e Mais si plus de téléphone…plus de zik si on n’a pas un plan B !
– dépendance à un réseau wifi.
– dématérialisation : un cap difficile à franchir pour ma génération qui aime le contact du vinyle ou du cd et lire le contenu des pochettes. C’est vrai que c’est parfois frustrant. Mais on peut obtenir les informations des œuvres sur le net facilement et une mise à jour ultérieure va permettre de profiter de la promise certification « Roon ready ». Et assurément je garde mes vinyles des seventies ainsi que mes cd !
– voir dans le temps le fiabilité d’un produit fabriqué bien sûr en Chine d’une marque récente.
– le bénéfice financier ? Ces dernières années je n’achetai qu’environ une dizaine de cd, à 16 euros l’un environ, je ne me ruinais pas. Alors le WiiM reste un investissement non négligeable, rentable seulement si vous écoutez beaucoup de musique.

Au total, je trouve cette manière d’écouter de la musique très intéressante d’autant plus que je ne perds rien en qualité sonore. Je pense que ce produit est un excellent choix (il existe un forum d’utilisateurs sur FB et je n’ai encore pas vu de mécontents!).

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Jakey

Game Changer and Fantastic Support – Just buy it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro PlusVerified Purchase

First of all, I just want to mention how fantastic Wiim Support is, they sorted an issue for me in a fast, professional and knowledgeable way very quickly – and were very patient until I discovered the issue (which turns out was due to my own DAC’s setting).

I’ve owned Denon Heos, Bluesound Node 2i and the Chromecast Audio, but I have to say the WiiM is my favourite for one very important reason.

Not only does it sound great and include Chromecast (which very few streamers do), but it also has a 10-band graphic equaliser and a parametric equaliser that works across ALL outputs including Optical and Coaxial. (none of my other streamers did this).

Why is this so monumentally awesome you may ask? Well as any audiophile worth their salt will know – room acoustics has the greatest bearing on sound quality other than the components itself. The Wiim allows you to sculpt the EQ to suit your room acoustics. This means that amp that is a little bright or speakers that are a tad dull or whatever can now be optimised with adjusting the EQ- and not just adjusting it, but saving your desired EQ as a preset- for instance, I have one for TV where voices are accentuated, one for a “vintage bass” feel, I even have an EQ that copies the legendary BBC LS3/5A curve if I want my speakers to sound like that! If you have to invest in the cost of room treatment and room correction equipment like Mini DSP or Dirac Live, the costs will run you into the thousands! Here you have it for 200 bucks. Mind blown – totally!

So at present, I have 2 different flavours of DACs connected and can use my phone to switch between TV, Hifi and any sound source including my own music server – you name it, it’s there! I also love all the internet radio stations that are available via Vtuner etc. and the ability to have a favourites screen to easily access anything you want, even if it’s just your favourite album!

Is there anything I would change? Yes, I do have a couple of feature requests that I feel would make the product even better-

1. Using sliders for sound adjustment and EQ adjustment is not accurate enough on a small phone screen- the adjustments are too great using fingers – it needs to have greater range and less sensitivity, and smaller steps in adjustment. Maybe this can be alleviated by using a tablet with a bigger screen, but worth a mention.
2. It looks like the WiiM is supposed to stay switched on -when you turn it off you lose pairing with the remote(which is a great remote by the way compared to the “credit card” types.) This is slightly annoying because the remote’s volume uses smaller steps, but I use the app most of the time in any case.

So yes, Hifi product of the decade for me. I can’t think of anything better in the last 10 years even close to this price.

Job well done WiiM- I’m a very happy customer!!

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lamco

Excellent support

Reviewed in Germany on October 24, 2023

Style: WiiM ProVerified Purchase

They did a big favor to me that I discussed with their Support back in July.

For several reasons I have an all optical audio/video setup where the sound ends up in two (very nice) Riva Festival speakers which have no L/R functionality (and no support as Riva seems to be out of business).

At Audio Settings of the WiiM Pro, you can now set the output to Left or Right Channel.
I’ve been testing it yesterday in my TV/Audio setup with an optical splitter and two WiiM pro’s where one feeds the left channel in one Riva and the other the right channel into the other Riva.
And it seems to work well as audio is in sync with the TV (B6 LG).

At my first attempt some years ago with two Airlino Pro’s and the same splitter I learned that it is “normal” for a streamer to buffer so much that the delay is just unusable i.c.w. TV.
I found a rare “fix” in the form of a (used) Sonifex Redbox RB-SP1 Combiner/Splitter (which has only coax digital connections and goes max 48khz for this).
An optical selector would feed that Sonifex with one of TV, CD or Airlino.

Then in June I replaced that Airlino with a WiiM pro and noticed that besides being a very nice thing to have, it does not have that draconian delay when I feed TV audio through it.
And the setup already used the optical splitter that, besides feeding the WiiM, feeds the wireless headphone station.
So I was interested in getting a second WiiM pro to make a much simpler stereo setup that can feed the Riva’s with up to 24bit, 192khz.

But before just buying a second one right away, I got into contact with Support and understood that, if I would connect a second WiiM Pro for stereo in the usual “WiiM” way, I also would get a, for TV, unusable delay.
Then I asked them whether they could just extend the menu with the Mono option by adding options for Left or Right channel so I could run a second (parallel) WiiM Pro from the splitter.
They answered “Ok, we can do that”.
And they DID!

So the TV hurdle has been taken and the WiiM autoselects the TV audio when the TV is turned on.
The rest of the things that I use seem to work fine.
At the moment the “Master” (Left) runs Tunein together with the Slave (Right).
It still amazes me how easy that works.
Airplay from my phone to both WiiMs also worked fine while retaining the L/R functionality.

Big thanks to WiiM support.
Of course it would be nice to have a home cinema “WiiM Pro Plus Some More” as a sort of A/V centerpiece that would have multiple optical inputs for TV and CD and two optical outputs with option for L and R channel (and for some maybe a sub out).
But I guess only a few people would need that.
Then, my problem is solved and we now have a setup that is much easier to use for my wife and kids!

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Stephane Nikoniste

Avis WIIM PRO PLUS 👈🏼

Reviewed in France on November 3, 2023

Style: WiiM Pro PlusVerified Purchase

Mon avis sera sur mon ressenti propre, sans avoir la prétention d’être un ingénieur du son, si vous comprenez ce que j’entends par là. Étant habitué à avoir généralement du bon matériel, totalement orienté Home cinéma, ampli Denon série 4000 et enceintes Dolby Atmos Klipsch, ça n’empêche pas que je sois également friand d’écoute de musique, mais pas sur ce type de matériel. Dans une pièce différente j’ai récemment fait l’acquisition d’enceinte actives Audiophile Edifier S3000Pro (Hi-Res) dont je vous laisse le soin de rechercher les TEST sur les sites PRO. Ces enceintes sont vraiment excellentes, mais comme je stream ma musique sur la plate-forme d’Apple music, ayant bien sûr préalablement sélectionné le mode LOSSLESS dans les réglages de mon iPad, je voulais profiter de la meilleure qualité possible pour l’écoute. Dans un premier temps j’avais relié mes enceintes à une Apple TV série 3 (celle qui avait encore la sortie optique) pour transmettre le son en AirPlay, le résultat était bon mais il manquait cruellement quelque chose. Après plusieurs jours de lecture sur internet pour savoir s’il existait un DAC pouvant décoder et retranscrire au mieux le taux d’échantillonnage fourni par Apple Music, j’ai rapidement mis en évidente que les seul étant capable de fournir ce GAP MUSICAL, mais à la fois couplée à de l’ AirPlay 2 en interne, c’était les DAC de la marque WIIM. Je me suis mis alors à lire durant plusieurs jours différents tests, et rapidement le WIIM PRO PLUS (attention LE PLUS) est apparu comme le meilleur de sa catégorie, du à son nouveau circuit DAC HAUT DE GAME, atteignant des performances rivalisant avec des DAC 3 fois plus cher et même plus. Ce que je peux vous confirmer sans avoir pu comparer ce WIM PRO PLUS avec d’autres DAC, c’est qu’une fois inséré dans votre système, il ne vous suffira que de quelques secondes (oui secondes) pour vous apercevoir du GAP qualitatif qu’il vous apporte, c’est réellement IMPRESSIONNANT !
Sur certains morceaux, j’ai entendu des instruments jusque là inaudible auparavant, une finesse dans hautes fréquences, beaucoup de chaleur dans les voix et une rondeur si agréable des basses fréquences. De toute façon aucun site HIFI PRO ne le critique, bien au contraire ils disent TOUS qu’à ce tarif là il devrait rapidement faire chuter les prix des DAC 3 fois plus cher, et non équipé de récepteur AirPlay 2 et de récepteur Bluetooth APTX-HD. Pour conclure, si pour certain ce sera un investissement (c’est pourtant un rapport qualité prix IMBATTABLE) vous redécouvrirez TOTALEMENT votre bibliothèque musicale, à condition bien sur de transmettre votre musique au WIM PRO PLUS dans la meilleure résolution, afin qu’il décode et fasse un GAP de votre musique avec son DAC.
J’espère avoir été objectif et clair dans « mon ressenti » car c’est seulement le but.

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Gapless Playback Hi-Res 192 kHz, 24-bit Music – Stream up to 24-bit/192 kHz music wirelessly on its digital and analog output. It can play your music gaplessly and provides the bit perfect output via its digital optical or Coax output. Please note not every music service offers 24-bit/192 kHz music content. Now, Amazon Music Ultra HD, Qobuz and your own music library can support 24-bit/192 kHz output. TIDAL Master is supported with the MQA core decoder up to 24-bit/96kHz for TIDAL Connect.
Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect & Amazon Music Casting – Stream music directly from Spotify, TIDAL or Amazon Music app using Spotify Connect, TIDAL Connect or Alexa. It gives much higher audio quality and longer work range than the traditional bluetooth or AirPlay 2 receiver and liberates your mobile device for other tasks. Works for Spotify Free/Premium users, TIDAL’s HiFi and Master quality (with MQA) and Amazon Prime Music, and unlimited.
Works With Alexa, Google Voice & Siri – WiiM Pro works with Alexa, Google and Siri Voice Assistants. Use your voice in your phone, HomePod, Echo or Google Home to control music selection, volume, and playback.
Seamless Multiroom Streaming – With WiiM Pro, enjoy the convenience of streaming music across your entire home using a variety of smart speakers, including AirPlay 2, Chromecast, Amazon Alexa, or our proprietary multiroom function. Create groups with other AirPlay 2, Google Home, or Alexa devices like Echo and HomePod, or even link multiple WiiM devices for synchronized playback on multiple audio devices simultaneously. You can also transmit SPDIF-in or Line-In audio to AirPlay-enabled devices.
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