🎉 Introducing the Vibelink Amp – Unleash the Power of Pure Sound 🎉

Hello WiiM community! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation: the Vibelink Amp! Designed with your needs in mind, this 100W per channel amplifier brings high-fidelity sound and unmatched versatility to your audio setup. Perfect for passive speakers, the Vibelink Amp ensures a premium listening experience when paired with one of our streamers, with a footprint designed to match the WiiM Ultra. By leveraging its premium DAC, Vibelink Amp is also a perfect match for WiiM Mini and WiiM Pro or WiiM Pro Plus via digital input for superior sound quality.

Why Choose the Vibelink Amp?​

• 100W per channel at 8 ohms, 200W at 4 ohms: Experience powerful, distortion-free amplification for room-filling sound.
• Premium unibody aluminum design: Sleek, durable, and thermally optimized for efficient heat dissipation during prolonged use.
• High-fidelity audio with premium components: Premium DAC, amplifier, and op-amps
• Post filter feedback technology (PFFB): Overcomes speaker's load-dependency
• Bit-perfect playback (192kHz/24-bit): Achieve true audiophile performance with every note.
• Anti-Pop Noise Design: Enjoy smooth transitions across variable sample rates and bit depths without interruptions.
• Auto Standby & 12V Trigger In: Smart energy-saving features that fit modern setups.
• Pure analog input (no ADC conversion): Savor uncompromised sound quality for your favorite analog devices.
• Seamless integration with WiiM streamers: Effortlessly pairs with devices like the Ultra, Pro Plus, Pro, and Mini for high-resolution audio.

Key Features You’ll Love:​

• Hi-Res Audio Excellence: Packed with a high-quality built-in DAC ESS ES9039Q2M, one TI PCM9211 digital and analog front end, six TI OPA1612 Op-amps, and a TI TPA3255 Amp Chip, the Vibelink Amp supports up to 24-bit/192kHz high-res music allows you to optimize beloved, decades-old, high-quality audio systems or connect current speakers with your favorite platforms effortlessly.
• Versatile Connectivity: Easily connect your favorite devices with analog (RCA) or digital (optical, coaxial) inputs.
• Compact & Efficient: With a sleek, stackable design and cutting-edge thermal management, the Vibelink Amp fits right into your setup and stays cool even during marathon listening sessions.
• Easy, Secure Connections: Standard stereo banana plug output ensures a solid connection to speakers, delivering high-quality sound without signal loss or dropouts.

Why We’re Excited:

Compact Yet Powerful – A well-built, high-performance amplifier that delivers exceptional power in a sleek, space-saving design.
True Hi-Res Audio Support – Supports up to 192kHz/24-bit, ensuring full compatibility with high-resolution music services and user libraries, unlike many amplifiers that lack this capability.
Seamless Playback with No Artifacts – Effortlessly handles variable sample rates and bit depths between tracks, eliminating unwanted pops and clicks that occur in many amplifiers when audio resolution changes.

At WiiM, we’re all about listening to our community. Many of you asked for a powerful amplifier that delivers exceptional sound quality and integrates effortlessly into existing setups and we’ve been listening! The Vibelink Amp is a dedicated solution for passive speakers, designed to pair seamlessly with all WiiM streamers or as a standalone amp for your favorite gear. Whatever your setup, this amp brings the exceptional sound quality you’ve come to expect from WiiM.

The Perfect Match for WiiM Streamers​

✔ Seamless Integration – Designed for flawless compatibility with WiiM Mini, Pro, Pro Plus, and Ultra—just plug and play.
✔ Flexible Connectivity – Choose digital (Optical/Coaxial) or analog (RCA) inputs for maximum audio fidelity.
✔ Ultra-Low Latency – Perfectly synced playback for high-resolution streaming and immersive home theater sound.
✔ Studio-Grade Sound – Experience deep bass, crisp highs, and stunning clarity with bit-perfect precision.

Pair your WiiM Mini, Pro, Pro Plus, or Ultra with the WiiM Vibelink Amp and experience pure, powerful, and immersive sound like never before. Elevate your high-fidelity streaming with crystal-clear detail, deep bass, and room-filling audio.

Your music, perfected. Upgrade your setup today!

Pricing and Availability​

The Vibelink Amp will be available starting March 18th on Amazon US for $299, with international availability on its way. Don’t miss your chance to elevate your audio experience! Find out more on our website.

Let us know what excites you most about the Vibelink Amp, and share your setups! We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

 

[slartibartfast]

I see. Thank you for the advice. So how do you guard against the speaker being overloaded? My thought is that is down to listening volume, obviously, but how do you know how much is too much?

Your ears will start bleeding . If your speakers have a sensitivity of 87dB (1W/1m) then even a 10W amp will reach 90dB at 1 metre.

 

[Erebus]

Your ears will start bleeding

Okay. So there's no actual technical answer. Things seemed so much safer and easier in the old days when you matched the amp max to the speaker max, or thereabouts.

I think I will stick with current amp until it dies, given the speakers are the most expensive items in my little music setup. Would hate to destroy them.

 

[canard]

The fear that historically there has always been with small amps, no protect, is that if pushed to their limits they will clip and typically burn tweeters... but in the end a continuous listening level with a high level permitted by a high wattage exceeding the admissible limits of the speaker will also burn it

 

[Erebus]

sensitivity of 87dB

I believe these are the relevant specs:

Sensitivity (2.83 Vrms@1 m), 86 dB ; Stereo Amplifier Power, 15 - 75w ; AV Receiver (2 ch. driven), 50 - 125w; Nominal Impedance 6 Ω ; Crossover Frequency, 2.6kHz.

 

[slartibartfast]

I think I will stick with current amp until it dies, given the speakers are the most expensive items in my little music setup. Would hate to destroy them.

Definitely. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

 

[canard]

(and I'm not talking about the impacts of bad manipulations in terms of volume, bass boost, boum party etc etc "which doesn't only happen to others" ;-) ...
a best off of each could be educational... ;-)
)

 

[canard]

Im sure its for marketing reason there is a dac and volume control . I would have liked this power amp to have no dac, no volume control and two fixed gain switches at the back, at 26 dB and 18 dB . A simple voltage divider using soldered resistors is better sounding than any volume pot. That said, maybe the volume pot in vibelink is only a rotary controller, connected to an analog chip volume control ? That would be a better choice than a buffered volume pot control.

I don't understand why the internal DAC function seems to upset some people...will be useful very often, especially for very consumer equipment...
or even more efficient than the analog input here...
and don't be fooled, leaving the manufacturing workshops is only a very small additional cost this dac...
the quality of the analog input, the impact of the choices on the variable volume side, or more simply the type chip of amplification mode, protection output, ( important efforts for good cooling seem ok).. are real issues...
but the addition of a non-gadget function...I don't see.... ""a gift""...(probably very often useful or one day it will be useful to you)
;-)

 

[noelc]

The new 3rd gen remote is here

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[noelc]

So, in terms of sound quality, (broadly speaking!!), how would this little buety compare to,, arcam a5, or marantz stereo 70,,??

 

[Musician]

So, in terms of sound quality, (broadly speaking!!), how would this little buety compare to,, arcam a5, or marantz stereo 70,,??

Tpa3255 or 3251 sounds better than all of those, if good implemented. Cleaner, clearer , more dynamic and more detail.
Linn products uses this chips in their Selekt range, because it sounds better. Tpa3255 in good implementation sounds slightly better than hypex ncore by the way ( I have both type of poweramps ).

Dont play attention to youtubers or reviewers that dont like the sound of good 3255:s. They dont know what they are talking about.

I bought my first tpa3251 amplifier ( Aiyima a04 ) in late 2020, and I was so convinced ( and chocked ) I sold all my class A/B amplifiers. Later comparisons with expensive class A/B amplifiers are the same story . Below 1000 dollar there is no reason to not go for tpa 3255/3251.

 

[canard]

So, in terms of sound quality, (broadly speaking!!), how would this little buety compare to,, arcam a5, or marantz stereo 70,,??

buy and make your own experience, direct comparaisons in the long term.....to your taste and your conditions etc.

 

[Musician]

buy and make your own experience, direct comparaisons in the long term.....to your taste and your conditions etc.

Yes, this is the best way to do it. Dont loose money though buying expensive class A/B amps without the option of sending it back.

 

[canard]

Yes, this is the best way to do it. Dont loose money though buying expensive class A/B amps without the option of sending it back.

Snap ( "a l emporte piece" *) opinions always end up finding their limits...

(*traduction seem not good)

 

[noelc]

buy and make your own experience, direct comparaisons in the long term.....to your taste and your conditions etc.

Ah yes, been there many times,,, a lot of factors to think about for sure,, I can't help thinking,, physically bigger amp = bigger PSU, = better 'overall' sound,,, thanks,,

 

[Mr Ee]

I was so convinced ( and chocked ) I sold all my class A/B amplifiers. Later comparisons with expensive class A/B amplifiers are the same story

(Assuming chocked is shocked).

Very early days, but I'm stunned to say I have to agree.
Pitting the A$600 Vibelink against a A$6,000 Hegel has been shocking.
Yes, I still prefer the Hegel, but cor blimey mate the Vibelink is rather impressive.

 

[wiimamp user]

I think for me the biggest issue is that I already have an amp. Mine doesn't 'match' the Ultra as such, but how it looks really works for me.

It's better-specced in every way than the Vibe, apart from power, but my amp has more than enough power, so that's actually a non-issue. It's also cheaper.

But if I were buying an Ultra & amp today, and I had a larger room and needed more power, I might be tempted.

Just one more daft thing, which effects me, but I'm sure very few others. My Ultra is on my desktop, underneath a riser on which I place my PC monitor. The Ultra is 7.2cm tall, the Vibe is 6.3cm tall, the gap from my desktop to the underside of the riser is 13cm, so that's a non-starter anyway.

One could sell the amp that you have..

 

[Peter aston]

One could sell the amp that you have..

Good afternoon I'm using a hypex ncore nc502mp power amplifier with ultra driving monitor audio silver 100 7g speakers rated at 120 watts even though amp is 350 watts have no problems what so ever and I like music loud and bassy. My system has never sounded so good couldn't be any happier.

 

[EddNog]

(Assuming chocked is shocked).

Very early days, but I'm stunned to say I have to agree.
Pitting the A$600 Vibelink against a A$6,000 Hegel has been shocking.
Yes, I still prefer the Hegel, but cor blimey mate the Vibelink is rather impressive.

You already got a VibeLink in hand?

-Ed

 

[canard]

You already got a VibeLink in hand?

-Ed

beta tester ( seem just) ;-)

 

[canard]

(Assuming chocked is shocked).

Very early days, but I'm stunned to say I have to agree.
Pitting the A$600 Vibelink against a A$6,000 Hegel has been shocking.
Yes, I still prefer the Hegel, but cor blimey mate the Vibelink is rather impressive.

in your use ..input ana or num on wiim ? ;-)