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 originally used Sonos back in 2010 with the old BU250 bundle, an S5 and a ZoneBridge. At the time, it was miles ahead of any other multi-room audio system. It felt polished, reliable and genuinely premium. I eventually lost faith in Sonos after the controversy around potentially bricking older hardware despite customers spending huge amounts on their ecosystem. They later backtracked, but by then I was renovating a new house, and there was little point investing further, especially with newer Series 2 devices introducing compatibility headaches and prices climbing into the stratosphere. With my budget tighter, I ended up building a DIY multi-room setup using Amazon Echo devices connected to various amplifiers. It worked to an extent, but Amazon’s multi-room implementation always felt like an afterthought rather than a properly designed system. Grouping rooms could be inconsistent, syncing was hit-and-miss, and the audio quality was mediocre. The final nail in the coffin was Amazon removing the 3.5mm output from newer Echo devices. That was when I stumbled across WiiM. The WiiM Mini is the first product in years that has genuinely reminded me of the old Sonos experience, just without the painful pricing. I currently have two WiiM Minis installed in different zones. One is connected to a Fosi Audio TB10A amplifier powering a pair of Edifier P12 speakers in my gazebo, while the other runs Polk Audio RC60i ceiling speakers in the conservatory through another TB10A amp. Both have been extremely reliable over Wi-Fi with no noticeable latency issues when grouped for multi-room playback. The Mini’s biggest strength is flexibility. It works brilliantly in locations where Ethernet is unavailable or awkward to run. Audio starts quickly, rooms sync properly, and the app feels polished rather than cobbled together. The WiiM Home app is excellent and supports all the major streaming services I actually use, including SoundCloud, which many systems still ignore. It also handles local network playback and local device playback without issue. Sound quality is noticeably better than the old Echo setup. Paired with decent amplifiers and speakers, these little units perform far beyond what their size suggests. The built-in EQ controls are also useful for tuning different rooms. My wider setup now spans around 10 zones using a mixture of amplifiers and speakers, including Yamaha NS-IC800 ceiling speakers, Lithe Audio bathroom speakers and even some surprisingly decent Amazon Basics ceiling speakers. I am gradually replacing more of the old Echo-based system with WiiM products as budget allows. One thing worth mentioning is that the Mini makes the most sense for locations where Ethernet is unavailable or difficult to run, especially given the price difference compared to the WiiM Pro. If you already have wired network points available, I would personally lean towards the Pro instead because the Ethernet connection is better suited to permanent whole-home audio installs. However, at roughly £90 versus around £150 for the Pro, the Mini still offers excellent value and performs surprisingly well over Wi-Fi. This feels like what Sonos used to be before it became overpriced and overly locked into its own ecosystem: proper multi-room audio, well implemented, without needing to remortgage the house.

Doesn't do Chromecast, you would need the pro, pro plus or ultra for that (same with their basic room correction function)- but if that doesn't matter to you and you just want a basic puck to power off USB and stream music through, it's great and simple to use. Important to note- I thought I would miss the Chromecast functionality, but actually I've found I play music through the built in Qobuz functionality anyway- and both my partner and I can stream Spotify to it with no problems whatsoever thanks to it supporting Spotify Connect. It's solid but not top or 'enthusiast' quality, but it's also not those prices. Because of the shape, cables come out at weird angles which can look a bit messy if you want it accessible and visible. Again, the other models fix that and look a lot better in my opinion.

I have replaced multiple Google Chromecast Audio pucks with these Wiim Minis. Whilst slightly larger than the Chromecast, they look a bit more professional and seem to be very solid. It's provided a much better multiroom sound option that supports various lossless options and the sound quality to all of the active speakers has increased as a result. They also provide me a method for streaming audio from my turntable to any of the sets of speakers in the house, which makes listening to vinyl so much more accessible, and is significantly easier to use than some of the other solutions I've tried. They'd get 5/5 for this alone. The app is also very easy to use, allowing easy set up of connectivity to appropriate mesh access points. I'd fully recommend the Wiim system to others as a great way to open up multiroom sound at a low entry price.

Amazing product, sends the best possible signal to your music system and when paired with a decent dac produces sound quality that only the most pedantic audiophile would seek to better. I wanted this to grade up from a bluetooth connection in a garden wood cabin with no wifi, difficult as this product relies on wifi to transmit. Had all kinds of problems and arranged to return it twice without going through with it. The feature missing with this device is an internally generated wifi signal like you can get with hdmi wireless airplay dongles, because an iphone can only handle one wifi signal at a time so to connect an iphone you need a second iphone to create a wifi hotspot which has the wiim app on and makes the connection to the device and your first phone provides the wifi signal for streaming. The mistake i made was to download the wiim app on the first phone also at which point everything went silent as the first phone cannot deal with more than one wifi simultaneously. Once you understand this and are prepared to reset the wiim by pressing the play button for more than ten seconds and reloading the app on the second phone then you can get this to work. The eq setting is very poor and i cannot see how you can turn it off, on guides it shows an off setting but there doesn’t seem to be one in the app. This also comes up as a question in user forums. Also the room set up is best avoided it takes the slam and space out of the sound and again has no off setting other then navigating right through the app settings to do a factory reset, just pressing the unit for ten seconds resets the unit but not the app. Suggest Wiim look at the Audeze Maxwell for example of how it should be done. Don’t use auto settings tune it yourself until it sounds right to you. Then you have fantastic sound quality from a strong signal, the inboard dac is ok but for the same cost again you can connect up an outboard dac like smsl su1 through the optical lead provided in the box and you have sound quality that really should satisfy 95% of audiophiles. You can also pass analogue sound through this device by the supplied 3.5mm lead, for instance i am connecting a karaoke machine through with its own airplay wifi network, to pass through. Of course in a home wifi network most of the above connection issues do not apply, a single iphone can connect easily and you have multi-room connection opportunities also. Adding a remote to this, which is available separately, is quite difficult as when i followed the instructions it didn’t connect, which maybe why it is described on Amazon as a frequently returned product, but the best way is to reset the wiim and then select remote as you go through the reconnection process.

Great product, easy to use and works exactly as expected. I have it connected via the supplied optical cable and the sound is excellent via AirPlay and the aux input. Highly recommended.

Bought this for the improvement in sound quality. There is minor improvement over bluetooth streaming to a budget audiophile speaker (Argon Audio Fenris 5 a £450 speaker pair). Tested on Spotify connect at "lossless" streaming quality. The improvement is a bit more seperation and clarity of the instraments in the music. Makes it more pleasent to listen to. Its a bit like the difference between a cheaper vs more expensive speaker. At lower volumes it is negligable difference. Will not play Youtube. I did not buy to use the other features other than sound quality improvement so cant comment on that. Has lost connection to wifi a couple of times. Had to then power off and go through full set up agian ( appx 5 mins). Not dissapointed, but deffinatly not overly impressed.

Antes de adquirir el dispositivo, evalué varias opciones. Principalmente, consideré los siguientes modelos: Wiim Mini, Wiim Pro y Wiim Pro Plus. El Mini y el Pro son prácticamente idénticos en cuanto a calidad de sonido pero difieren en la forma y en las salidas y entradas de señal. El Pro dispone de una salida analógica y dos digitales, óptica y coaxial. El Mini, salida analógica y digital óptica. No tiene salida digital coaxial. Aunque el Pro Plus ofrece una calidad de sonido superior gracias a su DAC mejorado, opté por descartarlo debido a su precio más elevado, ya que ya dispongo de un DAC Marantz con una calidad similar y como no necesitaba la salida digital coaxial, me decanté por el modelo Mini. Sonido: Como ya he dicho, tengo un DAC de Marantz de alta calidad y he podido hacer comparaciones. Si conecto el Mini (con salida digital) al Marantz suena muy detallado, limpio, equilibrado, con buena precisión tímbrica y una buena escena musical. Si utilizo su salida analógica (lo cual implica que trabaja su DAC interno), el sonido cambia. Se vuelve más cálido y pierde definición y transparencia, pero conserva la escena musical. En resumen, ¿cuál de los dos te quedarías? Si tienes un oído acostumbrado a distinguir detalles sutiles entre un buen sonido y uno excelente, un buen equipo sin DAC, y no te importa pagar más, coge el Pro Plus. Si ya tienes un DAC de alta calidad te vale el Mini. Si no eres un experto en sonido y lo único que quieres es que suene bien, es más que suficiente el Mini. Lo puedes conectar a cualquier amplificador y no te va a defraudar. Repito por si no lo he explicado bien. Si vas a utilizar la salida digital, cualquiera de los tres te sirve porque el resultado dependerá del DAC que le conectes. Si utilizas la salida analógica, el Mini y el Pro suenan bien (llevan el DAC TI PCM 5121). El Pro Plus mejor (lleva el DAC AKM 4493SEQ).

Very easy to install and versatile usable

Nella botte piccola sta il vino buono? A giudicare dai 40 grammi del Wiim Mini, si direbbe proprio di sì. Un minuscolo concentrato di tecnologia. Wi-Fi, Airplay 2 o Bluetooth 5.0. Compatibilità con gli assistenti vocali Amazon Alexa e Apple Siri, funzionalità multiroom. Riproduce contenuti audio lossless ad alta risoluzione da Spotify, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Qobuz e altro. Supporta fino a 192 kHz, uscita audio a 24 bit, paragonabile alle registrazioni degli artisti in studio. Il DAC stereo TI PCM5151 integrato fornisce un'uscita audio analogica di alta qualità. Possibilità di equalizzazione - grafica e parametrica(!) - da app. E' ben costruito. Plastica, certo, ma di buona qualità e perfettamente assemblata. Di aspetto gradevole, la parte superiore lucida con i pochi, essenziali tasti fisici touch. Aggiungiamo la facilità di configurazione attraverso l'eccellente, completa - e reattiva - app dedicata: appena fatto l'unboxing il dispositivo è operativo in una manciata di minuti. Certo, in commercio esistono prodotti che annichiliscono le prestazioni di questo lillipuziano protagonista della scena degli streamer musicali, ma il prezzo da pagare è spesso proibitivo. A un costo che si aggira intorno ai 90 euro, è difficile trovare qualcosa di meglio.

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.

Se instaló muy fácilmente y se actualizó de manera muy rápida, lo conecté a unos parlantes de un minicomponente Panasonic ya viejito y lo conecte directo al Wiim con la salida Auxiliar y Rca al minicomponente, trabaja muy bien con Amazon Music Unlimited desde la aplicación de Wiim dando 24/192 en musica UHD (En la aplicación nativa de Amazon no se muestra la calidad del audio cuando lo reproduces de ahí directamente usando el Wiim como dispositivo de salida), en Tidal como los masters casi todos solo están en MQA, la aplicación te hace el primer unfold y sólo sale a 24/96, pero al paracer habrá una actualización del Wiim que te podrá hacer el siguiente unfold, con Roon pude transmitir desde la oficina vía Air Play 2 pero el programa hace el downsampling y le llega con calidad CD al Wiim, sin embargo habrá una actualización a fin de año para qué el Wiim sea Roon Ready y así poderdisfrutar hasta 24/192 en el streamer y cómo siempre lo qué mas me sorprendió fue con Neutron Music Player qué transmite sobre DLNA con todo el poder tengo música en 24/192 y los reprodujo sin problemas. En fin bueno, bonito y barato.