🎉 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!

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

As I’m sure I’ve said before, leaving aside all talk of auditory memory, strict A/B tests etc, I much prefer to make comparisons on the basis of how I would live with the sound. So I’ll try something new in place for at least a few days if not longer, then go back to what I had for a similar stretch. If I feel I’m missing something positive that the new product brought to my listening, I’ll then take that new item on board. If not, I’ll stick with what I had. Or to put it another way, if I find I don’t tire of listening after a few hours on the new kit then that’s a good sign. I don’t care if that offends the purists or the objectivists, or gives Amirm and his devotees a heart attack, that’s what has always worked for me.

I know you've said this before, and we all have to come up with our own methodology. It's our money and our ears, so no criticism there, but...

You simply wouldn't do that in any other comparison.

Let's say you had two swatches of material for furniture, or for paint colours, as you're going to be redecorating your room. And they're both a particular shade of turquoise, to the extent that they might actually be identical. What would you do?

Would you put one up on the wall where you can see it every day as you walked in and out of the room, then swap it for the other after a fortnight, and live with the other in the same way for two more weeks, then make a choice based on your memory?

Or would you just put the two of them next to each other?

And not only which of these would you do, but which would any reasonable person think would be most accurate?

Not only would you just put the two next to each other, you'd think the other option utter madness, to the point where you'd consider someone doing that as an insanity signifier.

Yes, you'd do the 'living with it' method if you were deciding whether to have red or blue paint up. But if they were so similar that you couldn't tell the difference between them in an A/B, side-by-side test, there's no way on God's green earth that you'd follow the A/B test with the fortnight v fortnight method.

And if you couldn't tell the two shades of turquoise apart when next to each other, would anyone really consider it possible that you'd happily live with one permanently, but become unhappy with the other after a week or two? No. There's not even the remotest of remote possibilities.
It's not a question of offending purists - you certainly don't offend me - but I think it's reasonable to read your comments and make that point.

 

[Burnside]

I don't think that's an accurate analogy at all...

 

[joeltheconner]

I just got my shipping notification! Looks like it will be arriving today sometime. Ordered morning of 3/18

 

[slartibartfast]

Well, the Amp itself supports only bananas indeed.

Probably because of complaints about the WiiM Amp speaker terminals sticking out too far

 

[WiiM Support]

I just got my shipping notification! Looks like it will be arriving today sometime. Ordered morning of 3/18

Give it a try and let us know how it works for you - we’d love to hear your feedback! Thank you!

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

I don't think that's an accurate analogy at all...

Erm…I do.

If you do an A/B test and give them identical, how could you possibly be satisfied with one after a fortnight, but then dissatisfied with the other, identical thing.

The one thing you could do. Listen over a fortnight, and find what you think is better about one than the other. Then do a blind A/B test and see if you can identify that difference.

If you can’t, that’s just your brain tricking you.

 

[Burnside]

Well you would, wouldn’t you?

Honestly, in my opinion, life’s too short for the type of A/B test often suggested - I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I know how I come to those decisions. I don’t really care whether my brain’s being tricked or not in that process.

 

[s3igell]

If you do an A/B test and give them identical, how could you possibly be satisfied with one after a fortnight, but then dissatisfied with the other, identical thing.
The one thing you could do. Listen over a fortnight, and find what you think is better about one than the other. Then do a blind A/B test and see if you can identify that difference.
If you can’t, that’s just your brain tricking you.

The Visual and Audio Senses are barely comparable, whether in terms of comparative tests or even over-stretched metaphors.

The Visual Swatch Test is an In-Context Comparative between finite elements placed in a strictly defined location. The Audio Test is more equivalent to comparing two different but very similar Rooms in which substantial numbers of subtle differences in shape and color are present.

Neither @Mr Ee nor @Burnside claimed "No Difference Detected", but rather steadily identified which "rooms" they'd rather reside in.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Well you would, wouldn’t you?

Honestly, in my opinion, life’s too short for the type of A/B test often suggested - I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I know how I come to those decisions. I don’t really care whether my brain’s being tricked or not in that process.

It’s the one thing I’ll concede.

You’ll probably like this, I think it’s comparable with what you’re saying:

It’s a pain to spend more money but it works

An advert for Nurofen Joint and Back has been banned for misleading customers – but what if reassuringly expensive branding is all part of the cure?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

The Visual and Audio Senses are barely comparable, whether in terms of comparative tests or even over-stretched metaphors.

The Visual Swatch Test is an In-Context Comparative between finite elements placed in a strictly defined location. The Audio Test is more equivalent to comparing two different but very similar Rooms in which substantial numbers of subtle differences in shape and color are present.

Neither @Mr Ee nor @Burnside claimed "No Difference Detected", but rather steadily identified which "rooms" they'd rather reside in.

No, that’s not it at all. A new DAC is a new DAC, everything else stays the same.

 

[dominikz]

Well you would, wouldn’t you?

Honestly, in my opinion, life’s too short for the type of A/B test often suggested - I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I know how I come to those decisions. I don’t really care whether my brain’s being tricked or not in that process.

Interestingly, in my opinion life's too short to spend it obsessing over the "sound" of devices designed to have no sound signature of their own.
On the other had, I find controlled listening tests worthwhile because I find them educational.

It is always interesting to note how different people's perspectives on the same subject can be.

 

[Burnside]

Interestingly, in my opinion life's too short to spend it obsessing over the "sound" of devices designed to have no sound signature of their own.
On the other had, I find controlled listening tests worthwhile because I find them educational.

It is always interesting to note how different people's perspectives on the same subject can be.

Maybe that’s my issue, I don’t obsess. Well, not over things like that

 

[Valentino]

Pictured at Oslo Hifi Show this weekend:

 

[slartibartfast]

Pictured at Oslo Hifi Show this weekend:

You can see the misalignment of the volume controls perfectly

 

[EddNog]

Must run pretty cool to put the Ultra on top and VibeLink on the bottom, as opposed to the other way around.

-Ed

 

[Burnside]

Must run pretty cool to put the Ultra on top and VibeLink on the bottom, as opposed to the other way around.

-Ed

Heat is dissipated out of the bottom of the Vibelink

 

[EddNog]

Heat is dissipated out of the bottom of the Vibelink

Put it upside-down on top of the Ultra!

 

[freaknout]

I must admit I find the feature set of the VibeLink confusing when it’s partnered with the Ultra. Which is how it’s being presented and demo’d.

There’s redundancy in both having DACs and pre-amps. If you’re using the Ultra for it’s remote volume, sub out, room correction and phono stage, then the Vibe’s just a power amp.

BUT if the sound of the Vibe is a cracker it can be partnered with a much wider range of equipment and stand on its own 2 feet. If you are using it like that, how much of an issue will the lack of remote volume be?

 

[EddNog]

I must admit I find the feature set of the VibeLink confusing when it’s partnered with the Ultra. Which is how it’s being presented and demo’d.

There’s redundancy in both having DACs and pre-amps. If you’re using the Ultra for it’s remote volume, sub out, room correction and phono stage, then the Vibe’s just a power amp.

BUT if the sound of the Vibe is a cracker it can be partnered with a much wider range of equipment and stand on its own 2 feet. If you are using it like that, how much of an issue will the lack of remote volume be?

Depends on what it’s partnered with.

Personally, I don’t care about the lack of remote—I’m using it with WiiM Ultra and am perfectly happy to use that unit’s remote, but somebody who uses it in a chain lacking an upstream preamp/volume control would either need to be using it near field or the added expense of a separate preamp with remote volume control.

 

[freaknout]

Depends on what it’s partnered with.

That's pretty much what i am saying. I just find it confusing.

The perfect Ultra partner would just be a power amp.

Stand alone the Vibe would be more compelling (to me anyway) with remote.

Sound quality trumps ALL those considerations mind. Fingers crossed it a goody.