WiiMMini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer, Multiroom Stereo, Preamplifier, Works with Alexa and Siri Voice Assistants, Stream Hi-Res Audio from Spotify, Amazon Music and More

Caution! The WiiM Mini is a gateway to owning additional WiiM products. WiiM Mini (the internal DAC provides very decent audio. The WiiM Mini is great for music streaming, i.e. Spotify Connect. The WiiM Bluetooth (BT) remote control can be purchased separately and also as a bundle with the WiiM Mini.)[Update 7/3/24: Some of the WiiM music streaming products, i.e. The WiiM Amplifier, WiiM Pro Plus and the soon to be released WiiM Ultra Preamplifier now support WiiM's room correction. Note: The WiiM Mini does not support WiiM room correction at this time. I do not know if the WiiM Pro (non-Plus) music streaming device supports the WiiM room correction. I only own WiiM Amplifier(s), WiiM Pro Plus and WiiM Mini music streaming devices that I purchased on Amazon.The WiiM room correction works with the WiiM Home app and the microphone in your iOS iPhone (not sure about Android phones.) In less than a minute the WiiM Home app and supported WiiM streaming device will analyze the in-room frequency response of your speakers. The WiiM room correction creates a custom 10 band parametric equalizer response curve that you can name and save or just use the default name "Auto". I also used the WiiM room correction with a subwoofer in a 2 channel system with the WiiM Amplifier with bass management and achieved good results. The results of using the WiiM room correction with my system(s) have been impressive. Room correction resulted in cleaner bass, better bass and drum definition, and improved midrange.LPT: You can temporarily connect a WiiM Pro Plus to any 2 channel or 2.1 channel audio system where you normally have a WiiM Mini. Then perform the WiiM room correction and save the room EQ settings. You can later write down or screenshot the WiiM room correction EQ values and manually apply the room correction EQ settings to the WiiM Mini at a later time. Unless you rearrange your room, change the speakers or your preferred listening position you should not need to re-run the room correction.]The WiiM Mini has led me to purchase the WiiM Pro Plus (features a better DAC than the WiiM Mini, a BT remote control and support for Chromecast (I don't use this feature) and the WiiM Amp. I could have saved a bunch of $ if I had started with the WiiM Amp, skipped purchasing separate integrated amplifiers and the WiiM Mini and WiiM Pro Plus. Although this is my review of the excellent WiiM Mini, do yourself a favor and consider getting the WiiM Amp instead. *)The WiiM Home phone app to Spotify Connect integration is very good, easy to use. The sound quality when using the WiiM Mini (and other WiiM music devices) when streaming Spotify Connect is very good. (The WiiM Mini's sound quality when streaming Spotify is currently Ogg Vorbis format compressed audio (320kbps, 16 bits, 44.1kHz) **. The sound is so close to uncompressed CD quality (at least to my ears) that I no longer bother playing my CDs. I have disconnected my CD player and have hauled my remaining CDs to the basement because it is just too easy to call up playlists, artists, albums and songs at will using the WiiM Home app.* Note: As an integrated Class D amplifier/music streaming device the WiiM Amp has some limitations. The WiiM Amp does not have a built-in phono stage or a built in headphone jack (you can however pair BT earbuds or headphones with the WiiM Amp). The WiiM Amp only has a single RCA stereo line input connection (in addition to one optical digital input.) The WiiM Amp supports USB playback. The WiiM Amp provides connections for one pair of wired passive stereo speakers (4 Ohm or greater.) There is also an RCA subwoofer output with bass management via the WiiM Home app.)** Note: The WiiM Mini and other WiiM music streamers are capable of streaming higher quality (uncompressed, lossless) audio including Amazon HD Music, Tidal and Deezer. (I do not currently use these music services.)[Update 6/3/24] I purchased another WiiM Mini to solve an issue I was having with the WiiM Amplifier. The WiiM Amp is a brilliant product in almost every respect. One notable exception is Wi-Fi connectivity. In my home the WiiM Amp only has acceptable Wi-Fi connectivity when the WiiM Amp is placed close, i.e. within the same room as my wireless router. To solve this issue, I use the WiiM Mini as a Wi-Fi music streamer.I connect the WiiM Mini to the WiiM Amp via the optical cable and this gets around my WiiM Amp Wi-Fi performance issues. (The optical connection is 24 bit, 192 kbps.) I stream Spotify Premium exclusively, I can't hear any difference when using the WiiM Amp with Wi-FI (placed close to the W-Fi router) or when using the WiiM Mini and the optical output from the WiiM Mini to the optical input of the WiiM Amp.Now I can locate WiiM Amps in different rooms in my home and not have Wi-Fi connectivity issues. This works for me. Maybe this solution will work for you if you are having WiiM Amp Wi-Fi issues.

Here's what I said in my first review.... (look below to see why I bought a second, or just get one already).It does what it says, it does it well, and at a reasonable price.Now for the audio nerds out there... So, I can stream directly to my receiver using its built-in AirPlay2. It sounds fine, And I know that it's better to get lossless data directly into my external DAC, which sounds way better than the DACs built-in to my receiver. But for convenience, nothing beats AirPlay streaming to the WiiM Mini, which connects to my external DAC via Optical. Does it sound as good as a direct connection to the DAC (no AirPlay AAC shenanigans involved)? No, it does not. But it definitely sounds WAY better than streaming AirPlay to my receiver's DACs, and so much more convenient than direct-connecting to the DAC.When I want to do attentive listening, I use an iPad connected via USB-C to the USB input of the Denafrips. When I just want to hear the Denafrips as part of my whole-house sound, the WiiM mini is my first choice.Looks like the internal DACs on my receiver are now relegated to Home Theater.The Mini is super easy to set up, it inhabits my AirPlay whole-house sound system beautifully, and the app even has some nice music discovery features of its own. This morning my "alarm clock" automation went off. It played SomaFM in my bedroom, and in the Home Theater through the Mini and into my external DAC. I made coffee, and spent a little time in from of the home theater/Denafrips system and thought... "yep, that sounds nice". That's all I was after, and that's exactly what I got. Nice job WiiM.I may get a couple more Minis before they introduce a new model that doesn't have AirPlay2 (I know, they're only rumors).== UPDATE ==So yes, I just bought my second WiiM Mini, and this time it's to run a second zone in my house as part of an AirPlay setup.My AVR has two zones, and I was using the AVR for that, but it's nowhere near as convenient as having another AirPlay device. However, I want better sound than I can get from a HomePod, and I have in-wall speakers that I want to use.In-wall speakers sound better than a HomePod? Well, if they're decent and driven by a decent zone amp (I'm looking at you Parasound ZAmp), and you use the WiiM Room Correction feature, then YES, it's not even close.The Room Correction feature worked so well in my setup that my in-wall speakers in the dining room actually sound very good now. Like not just good, but very good (not mindblowing either, but I'll take very good for this application).So yeah, the Mini has shown itself to be a great little swiss army knife and that's just using the AirPlay capability.WiiM Mini with Room Correction is killer.

Our house has some left over Bose speakers outdoor, which I connected to an amplifier indoors. I was able to plug this device via the Aux part and I am absolutely thrilled with the results.The app is easy to use, allows for EQ customization, and the fact that it connects to my wifi makes it so much easier and reliable to play music from outside versus Bluetooth. There’s also no lag whatsoever while flipping through songs in Spotify.

There’s actually a pretty good little device. It does exactly what it says it does and streams music to the speakers of your choice. I’m not an audio file on the sound is great from my perspective.I took off a star because it does not support Chromecast! I have a whole house full of Chromecast based devices so this will not work for me.

Relatively inexpensive entry to the world of high resolution streaming directly from home wifi systems. NOT a blue tooth receiver. You need to have a compatible streaming servicem. I use Amazon Music Unlimited and it was a 2 minute set up. You control this streamer via it's well designed phone app. You have option of outputting signal to a DAC via one optical (toslink) socket or to powered speaker via 3 mm socket. The built in DAC in this unit is supposed to produce poor quality analog signal so I connected to a DAC and then onto amp and passive speakers. The next better quality Wiim streamer is $100 more expensive so I decided to try this first. Overall I'm very pleased. Downsides are lightweight plastic shell and very limited digital output options.