WiiM Pro Plus AirPlay 2 Receiver, Google Cast Audio, Multiroom Streamer with Premium AKM DAC, Voice Remote, Works with Alexa/Siri/Google, Stream Hi-Res Audio from Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal and More

Am not a fan of any Chineese-made product, as their quality is commonly lacking. Nevertheless, after all the rave reviews about Wiim, decided to take the plunge and buy the Wiim Pro. In retrospect, I wish that I purchased the Pro+ in order to get the AKM 4493-based DAC, but (despite this) the Pro is simply awesome! Have had zero issues with the Pro's build quality, app, or operation. Setup was a breeze. Sound quality is perfect. I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the built-in equalizer as the (thankfully bypassable) bass and treble adjustments on my simple integrated amp are not even close to properly sculpting the sound. I also love that (a) the app is so well conceived and executed, and FLAWLESSLY does everything that I ask of it, and (b) that AirPlay always works perfectly and is crystal clear. The Pro is worth every penny of its asking price and has become one of my all-time favorite audio products. You're gonna love it!

Using the WiiM Pro Plus as a primary sound source in an office environment. I'm using the WiiM Home App or alternatively the Tidal Connect link using Tidal's app. The WiiM unfolds MQA on Tidal for a perceptibly clearer and more dynamic sound. The WiiM Pro Plus sits on a shelf above my dedicated headphone amplifier -- a Schist Ragnarok -- and plays music through a set of Audeze LCD-2 headphones that I've had for years. I'm using my iPad as a control device (either the WiiM Home app or Tidal app) while I do actual work on my iMac. I've only had this for a couple of days, so I don't have anything to say about reliabiiity or long-term listening fatigue. I CAN say that I'm finding the sound quality much better than I feared. My primary listening system uses very high-quality audiophile gear that I've painstakingly acquired to achieve great sound. The DAC alone is more than 10 times more expensive than the WiiM, and my electrostatic speakers are over $10,000 these days. So I'm used to good sound. That said, the WiiM Pro Plus is a simply OUTSTANDING deal. I'm not doing any critical listening, but I'm quite happy with my new office music partner. Setup was trivial, although the instructions were either too simple or too complex. The only quick-setup guide was for the hand-held remote, and that's sending me to a device menu buried in the user interface. The full 40-page manual can be downloaded, and poking around will reveal the performance, hook-up, and features that are quite impressive (10-band equalizer, for instance, or the ability to sync multiple units together for whole-house sound, as examples). For my super-simple office application it was major overkill. I use Roon at home, and Tidal. The WiiM Home App works mostly intuitively, although there are a lot of features and capabilities that might be important to those who like to play with their food rather than just eat it. There are a lot of ways to use this streamer, including as a simple streamer into a DAC of your choice if you don't like the built-in upgraded AKC DAC that is the "Plus" part of the WiiM Pro Plus package. At the moment this is not "Roon-Ready" but the previous experience with the WiiM Pro model suggests that it should become RAAT certified in a couple months or so. The WiiM shows up on my Roon app as a Squeezebox Lite unit, which is better-sounding than Chromecast or Airplay. I've tried mine with 3 different control maps: 1) the WiiM App, which you need to run at least occasionally to keep track of over-the-air updates (I've had 3 so far and I've had it less than a week). 2) Tidal Connect let's you cast your phone Tidal through the WiiM where it will connect to your account and run the highest bit-rate supported, depending on what your Tidal plan supports. I'm using the top plan and the high-res + MQA sound quality is best so far. 3) You can run it as a Roon end point player, although not yet certified. When it does get certified, that is likely to be the best-sounding option, giving you the most control of your music. The WiiM app purportedly lets you play your own music if you have it online in your network someplace. I tried linking one of my music folders and it kinda worked, but got very draggy and slow. It's like teaching a dog to dance... it's amazing it can do that, much less do it well. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase, the great development team behind it and the terrific value it represents in terms of sound quality and capabilities at this price point. Highly recommended.

I love the WiiM Pro. Until I got the WiiM, I was sitting on the sidelines with streaming, other than having a Spotify account for playing music in the car or on my iPhone when I'm on the go. It seemed too complicated and expensive to me to buy any complicated streaming hardware for my home system. This year I decided to look again at the home streaming options to see if I should get onboard. I read about the WiiM Pro and decided to try it. I'm glad I did. When combined with a high-rez music streaming service, it's amazing how good streaming music can sound, and the cost barrier to entry is now incredibly low with the WiiM Mini and Pro. Assuming you already have some kind of music system, that's all you need (along with a streaming service). I got the Pro over the Mini because of the extra inputs and outputs, and especially the wired Ethernet cable option. I don't have a whole lot to add to other reviews, but in my review I want to explain how I hooked up my turntable to one WiiM Pro so I could broadcast that signal to my other WiiM Pro in a different room using WiiM's multiroom functionality. I have a ton of old records that aren't on any streaming service and I thought it would be nice to be able to listen to them in different rooms, since I only have one turntable. Buying two WiiMs made this possible! I connect my turntable to a vintage stereo preamp with a phono stage in the conventional way through the preamp's phono inputs. My preamp has "tape out" output jacks and I run a stereo RCA interconnect cable from the preamp "tape out" into the WiiM Pro's "line in" RCA inputs. The setup would be similar if you have an integrated amplifier (preamplifier + amplifier combined in one component) or a receiver. For that WiiM Pro, in the WiiM Home app, set the "audio input source" to "Line in". (Remember to set it back to WiFi or Ethernet when want to switch back to streaming from a music service). Play a record, and on your preamp set the "source" to phono. If your preamp has "tape out" outputs like mine (it might also be called something like "record out") then the preamp will send the music signal into the WiiM. You want to use the preamp's "tape out" outputs and not the "line out" outputs that you would send into an amplifier. This is because the "tape out" occurs after the phono equalization stage in the circuit, but before any volume, tone or balance controls; it's basically the pure unprocessed music signal. Next, in the WiiM Home app, follow the instructions in the online manual to configure multiroom audio. The included paper manual in my box was very basic and didn't explain this. As of my writing this review (Feb 2023) the way to do this is in the WiiM Home app (iOS) is to first make sure you have both WiiM's already setup. Next, start with the WiiM that's connected to your turntable. In the "device" setup area, you should see both your WiiMs. Tap the WiiM that's connected to your turntable to select it then press the nearby "link" icon (looks like two connected chain links) for that WiiM. This open a little chooser where you can see the other connected WiiM's in your network. Press the checkmark next to the other WiiM(s) that you want to play the same signal being broadcast from the first WiiM. Now go listen to your music. A few more notes and details: * With a setup like this you can plug any source, not just a turntable, into a WiiM (via a preamp or possibly directly) and play it on your other WiiM. For example, a CD player. FM tuner. Cassettes. Your beloved 8-track tapes. R2R tapes. Maybe a 78 rpm turntable? * In my configuration, playing a record, sending the signal through a ADC, into the first WiiM, streaming it over AirPlay 2 (I think that's how it goes?) into the other WiiM, and then decoding it back through the DAC in the other WiiM (or your own external DAC) is undoubtedly losing resolution compared to playing that same record through an all analog system. But it still sounds pretty darn good. I haven't compared playing a record this way vs playing the same album via a streaming service (like TIDAL, Amazon Music, etc.) but I would guess they are fairly similar in resolution and quality. If that album is in HD (like 24/92 or higher) on the streaming service, the steamed album might beat the vinyl album once it's downsampled over AirPlay. But my old albums are either not on a streaming service or if they are, they are probably in 16/44.1 or lower so it may be a wash. * One benefit of multi-room audio is to be able to play the same song in multiple systems and be able to go room to room and hear the same song seamlessly. With my configuration, I wasn't able to play the record in my main system (turntable -> preamp -> amp -> speakers), while also broadcasting it to the other WiiM, without unacceptable latency. The downstream WiiM was around 1 second behind my analog system. If you think about it, the main system is playing the signal instantaneously while the other WiiM is getting a slightly delayed broadcast. So I'm not criticizing WiiM for this, there is nothing they can do about it. By contrast, if you use both WiiM's to stream music as receivers, they are able to stay in sync because both WiiM's can "work together" to sync the music, but not when one of the two systems it not even playing through the WiiM. If the systems are close enough that you can hear the speakers from both systems at the same time, then it will be unlistenable because of the delay. But if they are far apart then you might be OK. * Earlier in this review I wrote that I am outputting my stereo preamp directly into the WiiM. Later, I placed an external analog-to-digital converter (ADC, not to be confused with a DAC which does the reverse) between the preamp and the WiiM. I ran an interconnect from the preamp "tape out" into the ADC, then connect the ADC from its digital SPDIF (optical) output into the WiiM's SPDIF input, and in the WiiM Home app, I changed the "audio input source" to SPDIF. This is purely optional but I'm putting it out there as an option for anyone who has a ADC. * I haven't done any critical listening to see if my external ADC is better than the WiiM's own internal ADC but If I get around to that, I may update my review. My ADC is a cheap Hdiwousp $17 device I got on Amazon.com which claims to convert to digital up to 96 kHz. I can't confirm that. * Finally, I left this out of my review above, but before I got the WiiM, I bought a Bluesound Node. I regret that. The WiiM is just as good. The only advantage the Node has is the HDMI input and subwoofer output which personally I'm not using. Maybe the Node app is better. The DAC in the Node might be better but I have an external DAC anyway. But you pay $450 more for the Node. I am selling my used Node on an online auction site now.

I connected with Ethernet and Optical to my DAC. I'm using the WIIM in a desktop set up. The sound is great. It was easy to set up and was working in a very short time. The only reason I did not give a five-star rating is because the PC app does not work very well. I couldn't load some of my services. That said, the PC app is still in Beta. I would and do recommend this streamer to anyone looking for an affordable means to stream music.

Nice streamer. Included remote control is very nice as I don't want to use my smartphone for vol. control all the time. I'm running a tablet for this with different. apps like Internet radio, Spotify, Soundcloud etc. All well. In configuration can set individual sound profiles (Equalizer) and save them . However, I wish once you run Soundcloud for instance and then switch to Internet radio that my saved eq presets would follow. But they do not. This as Soundcloud is very bass heavy so my Soundcloud equipment setting would be too anemic when switching to another music app. Have to do always manually. Having that linked automatically would be really great. Otherwise very satisfied with quality of that streamer. Gets very regular updates. Kudos to the developer.

Good

Bardzo dobry streamer. Jakość dźwięku świetna, łatwość instalacji i kompaktowe gabaryty to dodatkowy plus. Największym zaskoczeniem jednak jest dedykowana aplikacja, która działa perfekcyjnie i bardzo uprzyjemnia korzystanie ze sprzętu. Pilot również jest ok, można przypisać kilka przycisków do np. ulubionych stacji radiowych. Polecam niezdecydowanym 😎

I was looking for a Network streamer and did a bit of research on the internet and Youtube. After comparing the risk reward of each streamer, I finally bought one Wiim Pro Plus streamer. The initial sound from the Wiim Pro Plus connected to my Muzishare X7 integrated amp via a pair of Van Den Hul (The First) interconnect played through a pair of 92db Focal JMLab speakers was definitely better sounding than streaming via a Bluetooth receiver. Initially, even while I was streaming hi-res audio via Tidal, it sounded slightly flat and the sound stage felt a little compressed at the start. However, after watching a YouTube video on Best EQ settings by the cheapaudioman, I punch in the same setting he suggested and make some minor tweaks, and immediately the sound stage opened up, and the bass felt fuller. Now, I'm truly enjoying music that is streaming through the Wiim Pro Plus, playing Tidal via the Wiim home app. Be sure to fit this streamer with the best quality audio you can find, and it will definitely shine, it will not disappoint you. This is a highly recommended streamer at this price point for sure.

Excelente receptor, una actualizacion en el firmware y en la aplicacion permite ajustar un ecualizador parametrico con el microfono del celular, despues de probar esta configuracionme encanto el sonido de mi sistema, lo tengo conectado a un amplificador de bulbos El34 y a unas KLIPSCH RP-600M