We’ve beforehand heaped reward on Linkplay Expertise’s WiiM Mini and WiiM Professional community music-streamers. The corporate has now taken that expertise and added a 2-channel, 60-watt Class D amplifier to the combination; particularly, a TI 3255 chip, so you’ll be able to drive your favourite passive loudspeakers. The amp’s energy output will increase to 120 watts per channel when driving 4-ohm audio system.
The $299 WiiM Amp can be part of different WiiM merchandise to type a multi-room audio system on your private home community (wired or wirelessly). You can too join it to your TV through HDMI ARC.
The WiiM Amp community music streamer has an built-in Class D amplifier onboard, with banana plugs for passive loudspeakers together with a subwoofer output jack.
Linkplay Expertise
Whereas the corporate hasn’t revealed detailed specs, it does say its new product is able to decoding 24-bit/192kHz audio, which is similar decision and sampling fee because the WiiM Professional and WiiM Professional Plus audio receivers, which depend on user-provided powered audio system. For us, the most important query is whether or not it should use one thing just like the Burr-Brown PCM5121 DAC within the WiiM Professional, or the marginally higher-end AKM4493SEQ DAC used within the WiiM Professional Plus?
Like the opposite WiiM fashions, this one is outfitted with analog stereo inputs, a ten/100 ethernet jack (there’s additionally a Wi-Fi 5 shopper adapter onboard), subwoofer output, and a Toslink optical digital audio enter. Whereas there’s no coax enter–or digital output–the field positive aspects a USB port for enjoying music from a thumb drive, together with the aforementioned HDMI ARC port for TV connectivity. A two-way Bluetooth 5.0 radio contains BLE help and may host the WiiM Voice Distant accent.
The WiiM Amp is out there in a silver end, proven right here, in addition to the area grey proven up high.
Linkplay Expertise
The WiiM Amp helps each necessary music-streaming protocol, together with DLNA servers, Apple AirPlay 2, Google Chromecast, and Alexa Music Forged. The corporate is presently searching for Roon Prepared certification, which it has already obtained for its different high-end streamers. It’s appropriate with many of the big-name music-streaming providers: Deezer, Spotify Join, Tidal Hello-Fi and Hello-Fi+, and Qobuz. The WiiM Amp additionally works with the Alexa, Google Dwelling, and Siri voice assistants.
The amplified music streamer is out there now at Amazon. We’ve requested a pattern and can publish an in-depth assessment as quickly as we will.
