WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer, Multiroom Stereo, Preamplifier, Works with Alexa and Siri Voice Assistants, Stream Hi-Res Audio from Amazon Music, TIDAL and more

I got this little gem only today. I have an SMSL AD18 class D amp that has served me very well since 2019. It is connected to a pair of Q acoustics 3020i and a Presonus Eris subwoofer. The amp is connected to my PC and Mac through USB. The sound quality I have always considered excellent, at least to my non-audiophile ears. However, music through the amp's 4.2 Bluetooth connection has been acceptable but non-satisfying. I decided to upgrade the AD18 within a budget of less than £200. I settled on the Aiyima A80, based on extensive reviews and the fact that it came with Bluetooth 5.1. It turned out, very surprisingly, the Bluetooth sound quality was far worse than that through the AD18. I promptly sent the Aiyima back to Amazon. Though over my initial budget, I contemplated getting a WiiM amp but found out it cannot connect to a computer through USB like the AD18 and the only way to input sound from my PC/Mac was to use a USB A to optical adapter. I did not want to that. I lost the zeal to try other amps and decided to stick with my dependable AD18 and find another way of wirelessly streaming from my iPhone. I did more research and decided to try the AirPlay 2. I was genuinely surprised at how small it turned out to be. It came with 4 cables: a USB C to USB C, optical, 3.5mm male to RCA and 3.5 male to male. Setup was extremely easy. I downloaded the WiiM Home app through a QR code provided in the instruction booklet. The app connected the AirPlay 2 to my wi-fi with no problem. I then connected the AirPlay 2 to my AD18 amp through the optical cable. I already had Spotify on my phone and the WiiM Home app recognised this without a hitch. I apologise this is cliched - but I was very much blown away. The sound now coming out of my Q Acoustics/Presonus has been of a far better quality than that produced by my Mac through a USB A cable. It is rich and the clarity and bass revealing. I had thought that £89 for such a small product (without a remote control) that only streams audio would not be at all worth it. However, the AirPlay 2 has given a completely new life to my sound set up. It is the little thing that could, and then some! I have not tried its Alexa compatibility and at this time, I do not believe I need to purchase the separate WiiM remote control. Of course - it is early days yet and I will have to wait and see if it turns out as reliable as my trusty SMSL AD18. At this time, I am extremely satisfied with my purchase. I will update if any problems crop up!

Having owned and loved the Chromecast Audio, I watched John Darko Audio’s review and discovered that this device is gapless, meaning there are no artificial gaps inserted between continuous tracks on say a live album or where an artist chooses to continue to play from one track to the next, a frustration for owners of the Chromecast. The reported quality is also at a higher sample rate and bit depth (up to 24 bit it’s at 192 kHz subject to source). Whilst it works brilliantly with Spotify, I chose to take out a trial for Tidal and Qobuz and while I’m at it, Roon as a layer over the top. After a small bit of confusion on my part, they all play well together through the WiiM no matter what you play from (phone, tablet, PC). If you’re like me (hopefully you are not) then this cost me more money in the end as I now have Spotify for the family and Qobuz + Roon and an extra Roon NUC server; the result? Despite being a skeptic, I can honestly say my HiFi has never sounded better. I’m using the DAC in my Audiolab 6000A, so can’t say how this sounds with its internal DAC to analogue out but it sounds great through my amp and B&W 603 S2 speakers. I’m now faced with a dilemma as Roon are putting their prices up I 2023, but that’s another story - you don’t NEED any of these services, honest! I don’t tend to use the WiiM app to control music because I get more information from the services I mentioned, but whenever I’ve used it, it is simple, clean and intuitive to using. This is a great little product and packs a lot of punch for the cost - especially when it is on a discount (I got mine for little over £70). ** Update ** This product goes from strength to strength, despite the modest price this product is continuously being updated with improvements including Roon ready due in Jan 2023, so I look forward to that. I did however make a mistake in my review above, I still use my Chromecast Audio in my office and to my surprise found that it is indeed gapless with Roon out of the box, unlike Spotify Connect, there you go you learn something new everyday.

I bought this to replace a Yamaha WXAD10 as Yamaha left that device without Airplay 2 support and iOS 16 no longer seems to like Airplay devices so I had to use the MusicCast app to play tunes on my iPhone. The final straw was having to run setup periodically because the WXAD10 just seemed to drop off the network. Thankfully this is a nice, compact alternative. Setup is very easy with the WiiM app on my iPhone. I had it on my network in a couple of minutes (Eero 6 mesh). I’m running it through a Cambridge Audio DAC Magic 200M to a Yamaha AS-500 200W amplifier with bi-wired Mission MX-3 towers and an old Sony subwoofer from a surround setup and the sound is amazing. I obviously cannot comment on the device’s built-in DAC, but the app is quality and is used to update firmware on the WiiM Mini, so I’m hopeful support will be better than what I had with the device it replaced. Things to note: includes all the cables you might need: RCA to Mini-jack, mini-jack to Mini-jack, TOSLINK and USB-A to USB-C (for power). NB The USB-A to C cable is only 1m long (thankfully I had a 1.5m one handy) and there’s no power supply included, so either you’ll need to use it with the idea of periodically having it recharged or get yourself a USB power supply or surge protector with a USB port to connect to.

Very easy to install and versatile usable

If you use SPDIF instead of internal Dac, this little device would let you forget about the expensive BlueSound Node, the troublesome and unstable raspberry pi runs on any OS. This is simply the easiest and best solution by far. The downside would be that it uses it's own app to log into all the music services. You won't be able to browse through the native APP UI from spotify, tidal, qobuz or even amazon music. I haven't tried gapless so I can't put down "it just works" stamp yet! However, hi-res does work as expected. There are some glitches and bugs from Amazon Music though. When comparing to Qobuz, it simply just works as bit perfect. On the Amazon Music HD/UHD I believed it's probably Amazon's fault here. There will be constrain on bitrate and sampling rate if you output from TV because it's running mostly Android OS (ye! I am looking at you Amazon FireTV 4k Stick). You will only get 48k. However, on the Wiim mini is another story. It's better to show 24bit, but sometimes it's not bit perfect. it doesn't always shows properly up to 192k. Due to the inconsistency of Amazon music. Depends on your Dac, your streamer box (a computer, an iphone, tv, or wiim mini) they all behave differently. I can't grasp which one is the "best" solution or claim to be bit perfect here. But Amazon music seems to output hi-res music for sure. Amazon still need to work on their device compatibility issues though. For qobuz, it works like a breeze. Always accurate, and always works! I've had raspberry pi ran through LMS, volumio, audirvana, and roon before. If you want me to choose what's the best solution for sound quality and simplicity, I would choose wiim mini. Although you don't have a roon or audirvana as centralized server. You can't "stream" music to every devices from a home server. You will lose "screen display" feature on your computer or tv. However, you will not bump into audirvana can't switch playback devices or roon constantly having server down issues you need to restart the server. Best of all, you don't need to deal with LMS or volumio just another update that something "doesn't work" again. For the sound quality, I compare to Qobuz, it is indeed a close match. To be easy to use and bit perfect, Qobuz is obviously the best choice. Amazon music comes in second with this wiim mini. Best of all was the Alexa integration. It's now possible to tell Alexa to play music, and on wiim mini side, it starts to play bit perfect hi-res music. That's simply the missing piece from the echo eco system that Amazon did not have on their own products unless you've gone for Echo Studio. Amazon really need to do some catch up. It will sound better than you use Amazon FireTV 4k Sticks plug into the AVR before TV. Due to "compatibility" issues, versions of FireTV OS, and FireTV hardware. Not all FireTV works right out of box. In addition, not all AVR works with FireTV stick either. So I am grateful that Wiim Mini simply skips that whole route all together. The weak link would be spotify connect (not very sure if spotify connect is ever going to support bit perfect when spotify finally release hi res audio). Tidal works okay but obviously your DAC needs to decode MQA because wiim mini can't do that from internal DAC. Best experiences comes from Qobuz and Amazon Music HD/UHD. Bluetooth was alright. When you can stream through WIFI, why bother with Bluetooth? However, the streaming service is very limited. It won't support even something like Pandora just yet! You really need to use Airplay2 to playback those type of music services.

Ich habe kürzlich den WiiM Mini Streame erworben und bin absolut begeistert von diesem kleinen Gerät. Als langjähriger Nutzer von Audio-Streaming-Diensten war ich auf der Suche nach einer kompakten Lösung, die meine Musik überall hin begleiten kann. Der WiiM Mini Streamer Audio hat meine Erwartungen mehr als erfüllt und bietet eine Reihe beeindruckender Produktmerkmale. Zunächst einmal möchte ich die kompakte Größe und das ansprechende Design des Streamers hervorheben. Er ist wirklich klein und fügt sich nahtlos in meine Musikumgebung ein. Ein herausragendes Merkmal des WiiM Mini Streamer ist seine vielseitige Konnektivität. Es verfügt über Bluetooth 5.0, was eine schnelle und stabile Verbindung zu meinen Bluetooth-Lautsprechern oder Kopfhörern ermöglicht. Darüber hinaus verfügt es über einen 3,5-mm-Audioausgang, der es mir ermöglicht, es an meine Stereoanlage anzuschließen, um meine Lieblingsmusik in hoher Qualität zu genießen. Die Einrichtung war kinderleicht und die Verbindung ist zuverlässig, ohne Unterbrechungen oder Verzögerungen. Die Klangqualität des WiiM Mini Streamer ist beeindruckend. Egal, ob ich meine Lieblingsplayliste über TIDAL/Apple Music oder meine persönliche Musiksammlung übertrage, der Streamer liefert klare und detailreiche Töne. Die Musik klingt voll und ausgewogen, ohne Verzerrungen oder Qualitätsverluste. Es hat mich wirklich überrascht, wie gut dieser kleine Streamer den Klang verbessern kann. Die Bedienung des WiiM Mini Streame ist ebenfalls sehr benutzerfreundlich. Mit den intuitiven Tasten an der Vorderseite des Geräts kann ich ganz einfach die Lautstärke anpassen, den Titel wechseln oder die Wiedergabe pausieren. Es unterstützt auch die Sprachsteuerung über Alexa, was das Bedienen noch bequemer macht. Insgesamt bin ich äußerst zufrieden mit dem WiiM Mini Streamer. Es hat alle meine Erwartungen getroffen und bietet eine kompakte, vielseitige und hochwertige Lösung für Audio-Streaming. Die Klangqualität ist beeindruckend, die Konnektivität ist zuverlässig und die Bedienung ist einfach. Ich kann den WiiM Mini Streamer nur wärmstens empfehlen.

Fonctionne parfaitement bien. Avec Apple Music, on ne peut pas l'utiliser via l'application WiiM, mais en Airplay 2 ca fonctionne bien depuis l'application Apple Music. (sur iPhone) La qualité en max en Airplay2 est du 16bits 44K mais 256kb. En fonction de l'installation HiFi derrière cela peut suffire. L'appli est très bien faite, on peut voir la qualité diffusé, un équaliser très précis, ... bref rapport qualité prix imbattable.

El sonido es excelente. Lo tengo conectado a un Marantz 6007 mediante la toma digital óptica. Yo lo uso de la siguiente forma: 1. Conectado a Tidal connect. El excelente sonido de Tidal con su genial aplicación que controlo desde el móvil pero que se ejecuta en Wiim mini. Sin pérdida ninguna. Sonido espectacular. No hace falta configurar nada, Tidal lo detecta a la primera. 2. Conectado a Amazon music unlimited, aquí la configuración es más tediosa, ya que hay que instalar Alexa y conseguir que lo detecte (tras varios intentos), y una vez que Alexa lo ha detectado ya se puede usar con Amazon music unlimited. 3. Conectado a un SSD en red. El disco SSD con toda mi librería de música lo tengo conectado al módem de fibra óptica, y la aplicación del Wiim mini lo reconoce de inmediato. Genial! Así que todo son cosas buenas con este Wiim mini que me ha costado unos 80 euros en una oferta de Amazon.