WiiM Amp Pro Streaming Stereo Amplifier Review

[BillSteinitz]

Hi everyone,

longtime lurker, first post.

I have a TV with hdmi and a Blu-ray player. Until now I have connected the Blu-ray player to the TV via hdmi and via coax to my now defunct amp for occasional CD listening (I understand listening to CDs on a Blu-ray player is not a good option.) Is there a way to replicate this with the Wiim amp which doesn't have coax?

On a side note, can someone explain if hdmi arc had any additional use in this setting? I still struggle to fully understand it.

Thanks everyone
Bill

 

[Inertiaman]

It would be great if some kind of DRC software like Dirac Live or something similar were offered, something more advanced than the equalizer currently provided. With that, it would be the perfect product... hope will be for other more advanced products

The Amp, Amp Pro, streamer Ultra, Pro and Pro Plus all have automated room correction.

One can debate the quality of the results, but its there. On iPhones it uses the native phone mics and produces, at least for some, quite good results. On Android its best to use an external mic due to wide variance in mic behavior.

 

[Matias]

Hi everyone,

longtime lurker, first post.

I have a TV with hdmi and a Blu-ray player. Until now I have connected the Blu-ray player to the TV via hdmi and via coax to my now defunct amp for occasional CD listening (I understand listening to CDs on a Blu-ray player is not a good option.) Is there a way to replicate this with the Wiim amp which doesn't have coax?

On a side note, can someone explain if hdmi arc had any additional use in this setting? I still struggle to fully understand it.

Thanks everyone
Bill

You would probably better use what is called HDMI ARC from your TV to the WiiM Amp Pro. Or alternatively there is Toslink too.

 

[BillSteinitz]

You would probably better use what is called HDMI ARC from your TV to the WiiM Amp Pro. Or alternatively there is Toslink too.

Thanks.

 

[JeremyFife]

Hi everyone,

longtime lurker, first post.

I have a TV with hdmi and a Blu-ray player. Until now I have connected the Blu-ray player to the TV via hdmi and via coax to my now defunct amp for occasional CD listening (I understand listening to CDs on a Blu-ray player is not a good option.) Is there a way to replicate this with the Wiim amp which doesn't have coax?

On a side note, can someone explain if hdmi arc had any additional use in this setting? I still struggle to fully understand it.

Thanks everyone
Bill

Hi, and welcome

A Blu-ray player is just a CD player (plus), don't worry about that.
As others have said - carry on as you are and connect your TV to the WiiM with HDMI arc. All good.

 

[Petrushka]

Nice little amp that could replace my Naim UnitiQute for tv duties. However, the lack of a pre- out is fair at this price point but maybe something some might want.

Thanks.

I’m just plotting and scheming at the moment.

I am most interested in multi-room synch and distribution. The Sonos Port is the only streamer that supports all my subscribed services an also multi-room. So Sonos will be the heart of the strategy. I plan to use a Port plus WiiM amp pro for the living room. That will give me detailed room correction and eq.

The most used room is the bedroom, where the TV lives. The only non streaming sources I have are the TV and turntable. I’ve gone round and round about what to do.

At the moment it will be a Sonus amp, with ARC from the TV, and a Rega Mini from the turntable.

The Sonos Amp has some room correction, and it has a virtual center channel.

I have three other places on the first floor that Weill have some lesser Sonos speaker. It kind of open plan, and I wander around. Everything has to sync.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, at least one of which will have a speaker.

There’s already a Bose 901 and Port in the basement.

 

[billou5767]

WiiM isn’t “Chi-Fi.” Rather, it’s a brand of Linkplay Technologies, a U.S. company based in Silicon Valley.

oooooooooooooooooooo edifier seem to be in !!!!

 

[Petrushka]

oooooooooooooooooooo edifier seem to be in !!!!

Aside from politics, we are way beyond worrying about country of manufacture as a guide to quality.

I think the Wiim feature set reflects American design.

 

[Piotr]

Hey there,

So, I just splurged on the Fosi ZD3 + 2x V3 mono setup for 300 bucks. But now I'm kinda second-guessing myself after checking out these measurements.

The WiiM's looking pretty sweet with its built-in power supply. It's got less wires, less mess, and probably runs cooler too. Oh, and that room correction feature? Nice touch.

I'm on the fence here. You think I should bail on my pre-order? What would you do?

 

[Petrushka]

Hey there,

So, I just splurged on the Fosi ZD3 + 2x V3 mono setup for 300 bucks. But now I'm kinda second-guessing myself after checking out these measurements.

The WiiM's looking pretty sweet with its built-in power supply. It's got less wires, less mess, and probably runs cooler too. Oh, and that room correction feature? Nice touch.

I'm on the fence here. You think I should bail on my pre-order? What would you do?

I require the eq, so that’s the way I will go.

 

[Yorkshire Mouth]

sorry but that s not a "elimination"....attenuation...

Within the limits of human audibility, that’s an elimination.

 

[staticV3]

Hey there,

So, I just splurged on the Fosi ZD3 + 2x V3 mono setup for 300 bucks. But now I'm kinda second-guessing myself after checking out these measurements.

The WiiM's looking pretty sweet with its built-in power supply. It's got less wires, less mess, and probably runs cooler too. Oh, and that room correction feature? Nice touch.

I'm on the fence here. You think I should bail on my pre-order? What would you do?

The WiiM has higher potential for sound quality, due to the built-in DSP.

It also offers an easy upgrade path to 2.1

But if you're not gonna make use of either of those features, then no need to bail.

 

[BillSteinitz]

Hi, and welcome

A Blu-ray player is just a CD player (plus), don't worry about that.
As others have said - carry on as you are and connect your TV to the WiiM with HDMI arc. All good.

Thanks. As the player has no toslink I will need to find a way to connect it to the amp. Probably I'll find all my CDs on a streaming service anyway.

 

[TimW]

Hey there,

So, I just splurged on the Fosi ZD3 + 2x V3 mono setup for 300 bucks. But now I'm kinda second-guessing myself after checking out these measurements.

The WiiM's looking pretty sweet with its built-in power supply. It's got less wires, less mess, and probably runs cooler too. Oh, and that room correction feature? Nice touch.

I'm on the fence here. You think I should bail on my pre-order? What would you do?

I was considering getting the V3 monos to use with a balanced DAC on my bedroom desk. After reading about potential overheating issues and the failures of some units on this forum I decided against it. The V3 monos are being sold on Ali Express in package deals with 1 large power supply, a power filter box, a power splitter, and add-on cooling fans due to the potential for overheating. That seems like a make-shift nearly DIY solution compared to the sleek all in one Wiim amp. Throw in the fact the Wiim Amp Pro has many more useful features and nearly on par performance and I can't see a reason to mess with that rats nest of Fosi stuff.

 

[Inertiaman]

Thanks. As the player has no toslink I will need to find a way to connect it to the amp. Probably I'll find all my CDs on a streaming service anyway.

If your TV supports ARC, you should be able to connect the Blueray to the TV via regular HDMI, and then connect the TV to the Amp via HDMI Arc. You can then play CD's "through" the TV to the amp. The downside is that you need to have your TV powered on when listening to CDs.

Alternatively, if for some reason the pass-thru approach above doesn't work, or you want to avoid powering the TV, there are cheap ($10-20) adapters that connect digital coax to toslink.

Lastly, you could rip all your CDs and put them on a USB thumb drive, put that in the USB port on the Amp, and you'd have 24/7 access to all your music library via Wiim's phone app. If you've got a significant collection, dbPowerAmp CD Ripper is sort of the defacto best/most-productive ripping SW tool and well worth the cost.

 

[Inertiaman]

I’m just plotting and scheming at the moment.

I am most interested in multi-room synch and distribution. The Sonos Port is the only streamer that supports all my subscribed services an also multi-room. So Sonos will be the heart of the strategy. I plan to use a Port plus WiiM amp pro for the living room. That will give me detailed room correction and eq.

The most used room is the bedroom, where the TV lives. The only non streaming sources I have are the TV and turntable. I’ve gone round and round about what to do.

At the moment it will be a Sonus amp, with ARC from the TV, and a Rega Mini from the turntable.

The Sonos Amp has some room correction, and it has a virtual center channel.

I have three other places on the first floor that Weill have some lesser Sonos speaker. It kind of open plan, and I wander around. Everything has to sync.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, at least one of which will have a speaker.

There’s already a Bose 901 and Port in the basement.

May I ask what streaming service is so critical, and is supported by Sonos, but not by Wiim?

The multi-room sync capabilities of the Wiim products are astonishingly easy to use and perform flawlessly. And VERY cheap in comparison to Sonos. I guess if you're already heavily invested in the Sonos ecosystem then inertia alone keeps you there. But if I were starting from scratch today on a multi-room streaming audio setup, Wiim is a no-brainer.

 

[Sokel]

Aside from politics, we are way beyond worrying about country of manufacture as a guide to quality.

I think the Wiim feature set reflects American design.

Yep.
Tight control is what makes the difference.
Or else we would say the same for Kef for example,same for others,etc.

 

[BillSteinitz]

If your TV supports ARC, you should be able to connect the Blueray to the TV via regular HDMI, and then connect the TV to the Amp via HDMI Arc. You can then play CD's "through" the TV to the amp. The downside is that you need to have your TV powered on when listening to CDs.

Alternatively, if for some reason the pass-thru approach above doesn't work, or you want to avoid powering the TV, there are cheap ($10-20) adapters that connect digital coax to toslink.

Lastly, you could rip all your CDs and put them on a USB thumb drive, put that in the USB port on the Amp, and you'd have 24/7 access to all your music library via Wiim's phone app. If you've got a significant collection, dbPowerAmp CD Ripper is sort of the defacto best/most-productive ripping SW tool and well worth the cost.

Thanks. I'll try an adapter but may well end up with the third option. My collection isn't that big and it's convenient.

 

[billou5767]

Aside from politics, we are way beyond worrying about country of manufacture as a guide to quality.

I think the Wiim feature set reflects American design.

china its apple fabric

edifier its stax , and very good product

for me edifier is quality for good price , american design its a flaw more quality symbol !

 

[early rejecter]

May I ask what streaming service is so critical, and is supported by Sonos, but not by Wiim?

Don’t know about the OP, but in my case it’s Apple Music that keeps me tied to Sonos. Sonos is (as far as I know) the only non-Apple streamer that supports Apple Music natively (i.e. via direct streaming, not Airplay from another device).