Mini AirPlay2 Wireless Audio Streamer, Multiroom Stereo, Preamplifier, Works with Alexa and Siri Voice Assistants, Stream Hi-Res Audio from Spotify, Amazon Music and More

Very easy to install and versatile usable

At first I was sceptical with the seller, because there was no update on the the status, but the item came before its due date. Thank you.

I didn't realise how small this mini thing was until I got it out of the box (but there are clues in the name I guess). I was a bit sceptical when I saw it. But it was easy to setup and within minutes it was part of Apple Home app and Apple Music was streaming. Job done.

Included TOSlink cable is to throw away. Its not even hold the place in Mini socket. The rest is perfect for the money.

The device has loose connection one left channel is muted.

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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).

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.

Klar, hier ist eine passende Amazon-Rezension: ⸻ Ich bin ehrlich gesagt ziemlich begeistert von dem kleinen Wiim Mini. Das Ding wirkt erstmal unscheinbar – eher wie ein Eishockey-Puck als wie ein ernstzunehmender Streamer – aber was er dann liefert, ist beeindruckend. Die Einrichtung geht schnell, und im WLAN hängt er stabil. Besonders gefällt mir, dass ich die Musik sauber per TOSLINK an meinen Verstärker weitergeben kann – komplett ohne hörbare Verluste oder Störungen. Genau so soll das sein: unkompliziert, digital sauber und einfach im Alltag integrierbar. Klanglich macht er genau das, was er soll: transparent durchreichen, ohne sich einzumischen. In der Preisklasse ist das schon sehr stark. Einziger echter Kritikpunkt: Die App könnte etwas stabiler und konsistenter laufen. Sie funktioniert grundsätzlich, aber gelegentliche Hänger oder kleine Unsauberkeiten merkt man schon. Unterm Strich ist der Wiim Mini aber ein extrem gutes Preis-Leistungs-Gerät, das genau das liefert, was man erwartet – und das auf sehr hohem Niveau.